Super Cars Episode 1: Bugatti Veyron

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Super Cars Episode 1: Bugatti Veyron (Mega Factories/National Geographic)

Bugatti Veyron
Bugatti Veyron (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The Bugatti Veyron EB 16.4 is a mid-engined grand touring car, designed and developed by the Volkswagen Group and manufactured in Molsheim, France by Bugatti Automobiles S.A.S.

The Super Sport version of the Veyron is the fastest street-legal production car in the world, with a top speed of 431.072 km/h (267.856 mph).

The original version has a top speed of 408.47 km/h (253.81 mph). It was named Car of the Decade (2000--2009) by the BBC television programme Top Gear.

The standard Bugatti Veyron won Top Gear's Best Car Driven All Year award in 2005.

Bugatti Veyron shaheer
Bugatti Veyron shaheer (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
On 6 April 2013, Bugatti set the record for having the highest top speed of any roadster in the world with the Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse, reaching on average a top speed of 408.84 km/h (254.04 mph).

The Veyron's chief designer was Hartmut Warkuss, and the exterior was designed by Jozef Kabaň
of Volkswagen, with much of the engineering work being conducted under the guidance of engineering chief Wolfgang Schreiber.

A number of special variants have been produced. In December 2010, Bugatti began offering prospective buyers the ability to customize exterior and interiors colours by using the Veyron 16.4 Configurator application on the marque's official website.

Veyron 16.4
Veyron 16.4 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Automobiles Ettore Bugatti was a French car manufacturer of high-performance automobiles, founded in 1909 in the then German city of Molsheim, Alsace by Italian-born Ettore Bugatti. Bugatti cars were known for their design beauty (Ettore Bugatti was from a family of artists and considered himself to be both an artist and constructor) and for their many race victories. The death of Ettore Bugatti in 1947 proved to
be the end for the marque, and the death of his son Jean Bugatti in 1939 ensured there was not a successor to lead the factory. No more than about 8000 cars were made. The company struggled financially, and released one last model in the 1950s, before eventually being purchased for its airplane parts business in the 1960s. In the 1990s, an Italian entrepreneur revived it as a builder of limited production exclusive sports cars. Today, the name is owned by German automobile manufacturing group Volkswagen.

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Bugatti Veyron EB 16.4 Grand Sport (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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