Bugatti Veyron

The Bugatti Veyron EB 16.4 is a mid-engined sports car, designed and developed in Germany by the Volkswagen Group and manufactured in Molsheim, France, by Bugatti, It was named after the racing driver Pierre Veyron.

The original version has a top speed of 407km/h(253mph). It was named Car of the Decade and best car award(2000-2009) by the BBC television programme Top Gear.

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

The Super Sport version of the Veyron is recognised by Guinness World Records as the Fastest street-legal production car in the world, with a top speed of 431.072km/h(267.856mph). The roadster Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse version was the fastest roadster in the world, reaching an  averaged top speed of 408.84km/h(254.04mph) in a test on 6 april, 2013.

The Veyron's chief designer was Hartmut Warkuss and the exterior was desined by Jozef Kaban of Volkswagen, with much of the engineering work being conducted under the guidance of engineering chief Wolfgang Schreiber. The Veyron includes a sound system designed and built by Burmester Audiosysteme.

Several special variants have been produced. In december, 2010. Bugatti began offering prospective buyers the ability to customise exterior and interior colours by using the Ve\yron 16.4configurator application on the marque's official website. The Bugatti Veyron was discontinued in late 2014.

 

 

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