Articles about Bugatti Chiron

It’s a very diverse set of cars

This is the car that turned electric power from an oddball curio into a properly desirable object. By now, the Model S's achievements are basically hard-coded into every car person's psyche. We know it can out-drag supercars. We

An impressive and ultra-expensive collection of automotive art

Art Basel Miami is an annual event for kooky art types. Y'know, the people who see a banana from a local supermarket gaffer taped to a wall and think, 'That's amazing! I should pay $120,000 for that!' only for

Limited to just 20 units

Only Bugatti could get away with building a limited-run series of cars designed to pay tribute to its own one-off, which was itself designed to be a tribute to a historic limited-run series of cars.Still with us? Right,

“It’s better to drive a slow car fast, than a fast car slow.”

If there's any place to measure a car's performance (and a driver's skill), it's on the racetrack. It provides you with an environment to test every performance aspect of your car, from acceleration, to braking, to cornering-everything.

Limited to 30 units

Earlier this week, Top Gear exclusively revealed that Bugatti smashed through the 300mph (482.80kph) barrier. It did so in a pre-production vehicle of a new Bugatti Chiron derivative. Well, now we can exclusively reveal exactly what that new production Bugatti

The Swedish carmaker reacts to Bugatti’s recent accomplishment

Koenigsegg has congratulated Bugatti on its recent record of 304.77mph (490.48kph) in a prototype Chiron...while also noting how a 'high-speed' version of the Jesko-the company's rival hypercar-might go even higher than 300mph (482.8kph)."We

“This news changes nothing for us”

For the last few years, there's been a lighthearted ding-dong between a few car companies as to who'd crack 300mph (482.8kph) first. It's largely been a three-way fight, with Bugatti, Hennessey and Koenigsegg all putting irons

Let’s set the record straight

The world of the speed record is not a level playing field. In fact, creating the car capable of breaking the barrier is merely half the battle. As soon as Bugatti announced the fact that it had broken 300mph (482.8kph), it

“No one outside of the development team has experienced Vmax in a Chiron”

Speed is relative. If you've been lucky enough to fly off on holiday this year, you'll have done 240kph as you trundle down the runway, then cruised at 800-965kph as you battled with the tray table and in-flight

Using a modified Bugatti Chiron

Top Gear can exclusively reveal that Bugatti has smashed through the 300mph barrier. On 2 August 2019, Andy Wallace hit a vmax of 304.77mph (490.48kph) in a go-faster Chiron at Ehra-Lessien, becoming the first hypercar to break 300mph.

The Chiron-based model is limited to 10 units, priced at £9 million each

Although the Chiron is quite the halo car, things move fast in the hypercar sector. Bugatti president Stephan Winkelmann figures that regular Internet-breaking one-offs-like 'La Voiture Noire'-are a way of keeping the focus firmly on the brand, not

Expect a big change in future Koenigsegg supercars

Having glanced at the featured image above, you'd be forgiven for thinking that Christian von Koenigsegg (CvK) was about to drop the hottest collab album of 2019. As much as we wish this was true, what he's actually doing is

One of the supercars that defined the '90s.

Word about the internet is Bugatti could be prepping a secret, limited-edition special inspired by one of the most enigmatic supercars ever. The grandfather of the Chiron: the Bugatti EB110. The Bugatti EB110 was revealed way back in 1991, to celebrate

It costs P826 million, give or take a Wigo

Imagine being paid to rifle through the Bugatti back catalogue before choosing a car to completely reimagine in a manner appropriate for the 2020s. But while Ettore and his son Jean Bugatti were responsible for a truly outrageous group of cars, there

It's made of more than 1 million parts

All 40 have been sold

Rule one of the Bugatti Divo: Do not try to rationalize it-your head will explode and you'll ruin the carpet. At €5 million (P310 million) a pop, it's twice the price of a Bugatti Chiron, so unless the propshaft

The new garage just opened

Angie King's a pretty busy woman these days. The hardcore gearhead's been trotting the globe racing Ferraris and managing her local auto outfit, Car Porn Racing, in between. And she's dabbing into luxurious world of exotics, too.This current

The most Instagram-worthy rally in the world

This year marks the Gumball 3000's 20th anniversary. Yes, really. The hedonistic party on wheels for the world's one-per-centers is as old as Google and "...Baby One More Time." To celebrate this achievement, 2018's rally decided to

What's the future of Bugatti?

As offices go, Chateau Saint-Jean, in Molsheim, the birthplace of Bugatti, is hard to rival. The stunning building is flanked by two coach houses: Remise Nord is home to the historical collection and Bugatti's team of "flying doctors"; Remise Sud

It will be focused on handling

There is a new Bugatti on the horizon, and-for once-the horizon is not the target. Prepare yourselves for the upcoming Bugatti Divo: A limited edition hypercar with a very specific focus.Corners. Yep, the new Divo pays homage to Albert