Of the Bugatti Veyron

Imagine a car that can travel across a football field in one second. A car that can go from knot to sixty in 2.5 seconds. A car that can hit the 200 mph mark, the holy grail for supercars, with ease. A car that takes just 10 seconds to hit zero from peak speed but in the process travels the length of 5 football pitches. Imagine power just short of the Challenger 2, the fastest tank in the world. Imagine adrenilin pumping revs. Imagine unfathomable torque. Imagine mind blowing mechanical grip.

Ladies & gentlemen, what you now see in your mind is the epitome of motorcars, it is the milestone by which the automobile industry of today will be known for generations, the Bugatti Veyron 16.4.

Bugatti was an Italian, who set base in Germany and manufactured cars in France. So the only common thing politically going on for him, was that he was essentially European. Bugatti was a legend in the olden days when it used to compete with Mercedes and Auto Union (Now known as Audi) in races all across Europe, till it went bankrupt. The famous dancer, Isadora Duncan died while in a Bugatti when her scarf got entwined in the spokes of the wheels.

Recently, VW took over the marquee and when the chief of Volkswagon put forth his idea of a super car to the engineers at Bugatti, I am confident, they must have thought its about time the old man retired since he was talking like he had lost it. However, after millions of pounds of research and path breaking findings, they came up with the Bugatti 16.4. It is essentially powered by two V8's married together to form a W16 configuration. And if that wasn't enough, they added not one, but four turbo chargers. The result: 1001 bhp.

As seen in American cars, power is nothing if they can't be fed properly onto wheels that are properly locked down on the roads. The Bugatti features advanced aerodynamics with retractable spoilers and vents that can lock the car down to the road at any speed. Motorcar aficionados would remember the McLaren F1 of the yesteryears as the ultimate car when it came to breaking the top speed. Its light weight body and powerful engine was good to bring it up to 247mph. But the Bugatti just blows it over, and leaves it gasping behind the trail of puff and smoke it leaves. This car is truly an engineering feat.

In fact, the Bugatti Veyron is so good, that even if it set off from standstill while the McLaren F1 reached 100mph, it would still hit the 200mph before the McLaren F1!

It is indeed a privilege to be of an era wherein such technological marvels have been unveiled.

Acknowledgements: Jezz.. you rock.