Articles about Bugatti Veyron

The result of one man's vision

Yup, it really has been 15 years since the first production-ready Veyron was built at Bugatti's then-new factory in Molsheim, France. Then 12-year-old me had a poster of it on his bedroom wall, and could recite the

The last prototype Veyron, the only racing EB110...and things got even more unusual from there

Where to start? Sitges-Terramar, now there's a track that needs its own story told.First time I've ever seen a car slide sideways down a slope. Then there's the people. Andy Wallace, he of nonchalantly-doing-300mph-in-

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

A tribute to an automotive icon

Ferdinand Piech has passed away aged 82, four years after leaving his role as chairman of the Volkswagen Group. He died "suddenly and unexpectedly" according to a statement released by his wife, Ursula. Piech will be remembered, rightly, as a titan of

The former VW Group chairman passed away over the weekend

Car-company board members are usually as exciting as the table they sit around discussing profit margins and shareholder behavior. Not Ferdinand Piech, who passed away over the weekend aged 82. It's reported he collapsed in a Bavarian restaurant before being

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

Embezzlement does not pay

A selection of hypercars seized by the Swiss authorities back in 2016 as part of an investigation into Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue (the son of President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, president of the impoverished but oil-rich West African state, Equatorial Guinea)

Disclaimer: Not all of them are practical

The replacement for the iconic DS used floating cylinders as instruments, rotating to display speed and revs as the driver gazed through the single-spoke steering wheel. For the sanitized facelift, they were binned. Boo.Well, if you're going to reclothe

Carbon everything

Remember the Vuhl 05? In a world of roofless track specials, we'd forgive you if you'd forgotten the most Mexican of the lot.To help place it further forward in your conscience, it's been updated. Thus, meet the Vuhl

One brave soul tells the story

Now that we live in an era in which supercars have topped 418kph and 435kph-with 483kph being seriously whispered about in more than one arena in the industry-it's easy to forget what a monumental leap in power and speed

Supercar of the decade

Just when we all stopped talking about Bugatti Veyrons, it's time to talk about Bugatti Veyrons again. Internationally renowned as the Concorde moment in cars, the fastest road car ever was the engineering triumph that shifted the goalposts for every manufacturer

We feel poor just reading this

1) Yas Marina Grand Prix Circuit to yourself£21,500 (P1.34 million)/dayYas Marina is one of the more... spectacular venues to have hosted a Formula 1 Grand Prix. Designed by controversial circuit-styler Hermann Tilke, whose past credits include the

Well, now you have...

The world of performance car tuning never fails to surprise and delight. And while Mercedes-Benz prepares to usher in an exclusively all-wheel-drive E63 AMG, a particularly zany tuner has provided evidence that this is not bad news at all.

It will be called the Chiron

How do you top a car as impractically fast as the Bugatti Veyron? To create its successor, the French carmaker has to push boundaries of engineering, aerodynamics and public expectations. And Bugatti has to convince several hundred wealthy buyers that its Veyron

Have you heard of Pierre Veyron?

The Bugatti Veyron has developed a legendary reputation since it first rolled off the French supercar manufacturer's production floor in 2005. It shouldn't come as a surprise, really. After all, we're talking about one of the fastest--and most

Together with the very first one

Last week, we reported that Bugatti had sold the 450th and final Veyron--a Grand Sport Vitesse roadster. We also mentioned that the car would be on display at the Geneva Motor Show, which opens this week, along with the very first

The 450th sample, to be precise

It's official: Bugatti has built the very last Veyron. And the unit has been officially sold to a customer from the Middle East. Named the "La Finale," the last Veyron is the 450th unit and is a Grand Sport Vitesse roadster.

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Floyd Mayweather isn't afraid to show off, and his Instagram account is proof of that. Through the social-media channel, the boxer has shown off his extravagant lifestyle--counting stacks of $100 bills on a table, being bathed by a woman

And the winner is...

The spectacle of a supercar drag-racing a jet plane down a runaway isn't new. Even our widely popular Top Gear TV show did it in 2009 featuring a Bugatti Veyron versus a Eurofighter Typhoon.For this video, we see a

For Singaporean customer with the initials 'PL'

Owning a car in Singapore is prohibitively expensive, with the cost supposedly going up to as much as 150% of a car's value when it is first registered. Well, that hasn't stopped a resident of the city state from buying