The Bugatti Veyron EB 16.4 is a two-door mid-engined supercar, which is handbuilt in France. Dreamed up by Volkswagen head honcho Ferdinand Piech, the car was named in the honour of Pierre Veyron, a development engineer and company racer who won the 1939 24 hours of Le Mans in a Bugatti. The 'EB' badging on the car refers to Ettore Bugatti, the founder of the company, while the '16.4' refers to the 16 cylinders and four turbochargers configuration of the engine. The Bugatti Veyron Super Sport holds the Guinness World Record title for the 'World's Fastest Production Car', though at one point of time the title had been reworked owing to some discrepancy in guidelines. Controversies aside, the Bugatti Veyron is nothing short of an engineering marvel and was the first production car ever to breach the 400kmph mark.
Engine
Bugatti Veyron at Top Speed The engine has been created by joining two V8 blocks, each with a 15 degree bank angle, together in the crankcase. The engine is aspirated by four turbochargers. In its standard form, the engine produces 987bhp and 1250Nm of torque while in the Veyron Super Sport, it churns out 1184bhp and 1500Nm of torque. The power is sent to all four wheels through a permanent all-wheel drive using the Haldex Traction system. The Veyron uses a seven-speed DSG sequential gearbox unit.
Cooling is taken care of by a total of 12 radiators while cross drilled radially vented carbon fibre reinforced silicon carbide composite discs help the car slow down.
Check out this machine running at top speed in this video:
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