Angus MacKenzie says goodbye to one of the most extraordinary production engines of the modern era: Bugatti’s 8.0-liter W-16.
, and emerged from each astonished and amazed. But when I got out of the Chiron Super Sport for the last time, there was a tinge of something else. Sadness, I think.
I've driven one of Mercedes-Benz's replicas of the 1886 Benz Patentwagen, long regarded as the first practicable motor vehicle powered by an internal combustion engine; 1.0 liter of displacement, one cylinder, 0.75 horsepower. The Chiron Super Sport's titanic engine has eight times the capacity, 16 times the cylinders, and … more than 2,100 times the power.
And on winding roads, it's dynamically more agile and responsive than a car of its size and mass has any right to be thanks to suspension and steering tweaks shared withIn case you wondered, the average Chiron or Veyron owner drives their car about 1,200 to 1,300 miles a year, says Bugatti test driver Pierre-Henri Raphanel. The highest-mileage Veyrons now have more than 30,000 miles on the clock, and the Chiron test mule and customer demonstration car has now covered more than 80,000 miles.
To guarantee the integrity of the bead seal, Michelin would only allow two tires to be fitted to an individual Veyron wheel before the wheel had to be scrapped. A set of replacement wheels cost a cool $69,000, which made fitting that third set of tires a $111,000 proposition. Wallace says Michelin supplied 11 sets of tires for the record attempt, but he only used three sets."We only changed tires during testing when we went above 290 mph." All of which makes the $15,000 Michelin charges for a set of Chiron Super Sport tires sound like a bargain.Founder Ettore Bugatti saw engineering as art. Born into an artistic family in Milan, Bugatti was as obsessed with the form and finish of his cars' mechanicals as their function.
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