Articles about Bugatti Chiron

Automotive excess or engineering pinnacles?

Okay, we're going to try to get through this article without mentioning the gilded age, the 1%, being rich as Croesus, or anything like that. Each time we fail, we're going to put 20 bucks in a jar. We would

For those who want a bit more edge to their Chiron

Weeks of COVID-19 lockdown have clearly made the Bugatti Chiron Pur Sport rather angry. Here it is, in menacing prototype form being thrashed to the limit at Bilster Berg-a circuit that's not to be taken lightly.Which, incidentally, the

While still following government quarantine rules

Bugatti's factory, like pretty much every other production line in Europe, is currently gathering dust. And yet, behind the scenes at the Molsheim facility, work goes on. Work on chassis testing and performance R&D for some of the world's

Just imagine two hypercars going head to head

There are two hypercars we'd like to see go head-to-head: the Koenigsegg Jesko and the Bugatti Chiron. Watching two super-fast hypercars go flat out through a quarter-mile would be glorious, we reckon.Unfortunately, Koenigsegg isn't quite

*In US prices, anyway

Welcome to the Bugatti Chiron of watches. No, really-the Chiron Tourbillon is the first, all-new watch to come out of Bugatti's partnership with Swiss watchmaker Jacob & Co. And like the car to which it pays tribute, it's fantastically

Now's the perfect time to build them

The Bugatti Chiron's place in history is assured, as the first hypercar to smash the 300mph barrier. Unfortunately, the chances of us mere mortals ever owning one are slim. Unless of course, you're happy to build it yourself...out of

The cars that defined the bedroom posters of a generation

Whether you're a child of the '90s, a 2000s kid, or you're the spawn of the 2010s, there's a Bugatti hypercar for your generation.Each of them shares four common traits: four turbochargers, four-wheel drive, a carbon-fiber

In hindsight, it makes sense

Back in February, Nissan shared that it built a special tracking version of the GT-R for the sole purpose of filming, well, another GT-R. It's an impressive feat for the sake of what's essentially glorified marketing footage, and

A P170.3-million, 1,479hp drivers’ hypercar

Where the Bugatti Chiron Sport 300+ blitzed the top-speed run-and broke records and the hearts of rivals in the process-so this new Chiron is built for blitzing corners. It is officially called the Bugatti Chiron Pur Sport, and you

Better hurry

If you've spent the four years since the Bugatti Chiron was revealed down the back of your sofa, desperately hunting for the £2.5 million (P166 million) needed to actually buy one, we have good news-you've got a bit

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.