Shattering all barriers of Hypercar Engineering with grace, Bugatti presented their new flagship in January this year, THE BUGATTI CHIRON!
Fun Fact: The last reading on the speedo reads 500kmph!
And what can one say..
The first 5 times you look at this car, you really do not have voice in your throat and air in your lungs because the sheer design of the thing is staring at you with glamor that shines brighter than the sun from space. The car simply grabs you by your throat and you're left staring at it dumbstruck with no words to speak and feelings to express.
Once the anaesthetic effect of Chiron wears off, kick in the extra terrestrial performance and aerodynamic facts of the car. The mammoth 8litre W16 engine paired with a foursome of turbochargers spitting out power equivalent of 1500 horses is pure Alien Tech, even by Chuck Norris standards! Combined with a 7 speed automatic transmission, this beast is in simple words, turmac slithering! Bugatti claims that the thing will hit 261mph(or 420kmph) maxed out, IF you can find a piece of turmac where you could hit those mph's and not end the day in a coffin.
Sporting all the traditional Bugatti signatures, the Chiron speaks volumes about the identity, pedigree and about the car it is heir to, the Veyron. The Chiron is a mindbogglingly 18mph than the fastest Veyron, which was the Veyron Supersport, and like just that wasn't enough, the Chiron is also the first car to host what Bugatti likes to call a 'nude backend', which is evident when you begin to notice the huge cavity at the back with practically no bodywork, all thanks to the Aero Engineers who worked on this god of a project. The traditional C scoop on the side and the horseshoe front grill is what all Bugatti's have been known to sport and even so, nothing about the car looks anything close to any earthly four wheeled being ever produced. Bugatti has always set the bar high with their projects in terms of exclusivity, and having an engine hub covered in solid gold and an exhaust cast from titanium, the Chiron is no different from it's outgoing forefathers.
The Chiron has got catalytic convertors which are 30 times bigger than what companies fit to normal mid-sized road going cars and the clutches are the "largest, high performing" such components ever fitted to a road car. Well they better be, if they're going to go up against the 8 litre's 1180 lb-ft of shockwave capable torque and the sub 2.5second sprints to 100kmph.
The car comes with 5 preset driving modes reading - automatic mode for comfort cruising, lift mode for bumps and driveway entrances, Autobahn, Handling and Top Speed which play with the dampers, the height actuators as well the aero package on the car while you're in it and going through town, on the speedway or in space.
Awestruck yet? There's little doubt that the Chiron tops even the mighty Veyron the department of jaw slackening. The Chiron is an engineering marvel and the pinnacle of Hypercar engineering; the mass should be properly enthralled and most critically, so should be the rich son's of guns capable of shelling out the whopping $2.5mil+ Bugatti is expected to tag the Chiron with, and get their hands on 1 of the 500 units Bugatti plans to build.
