Bugatti Veyron 16.4; fastest, quickest, most powerful. It was an
expensive brief, but the company met it, albeit at extremely high
costs. So high in fact that the scheduled 300 (only 125 have been
delivered so far) profit-bleeders to be built will never return any
money to parent company Volkswagen. But resilient VW is about to do
it again!
Bugatti media communications manager Julius Kruta told Emirates
Business that Veyron is not the end of the story, even though it so
nearly became the end of VW itself.
“Even though it is not economically viable for us, we will do it
again,” said Kruta, “we have bigger plans for the future and the
next one from our stables will be even more expensive than the
Veyron.” US luxury car company Dimora may have a word or two about
this with their planned USD 2 million Natalia.
We know the Veyron is pretty special; the figures speak for
themselves: 16 cylinders, four turbos, 1001 ps/ 736kW, 0 – 100km/h
in 2.5 seconds, top speed of 407km/h. Ironically if it didn’t have
a rear wing it would fly off! And Brad Pitt, if you are reading
this, please email us to confirm if the going price is still USD1.3
million.
“We were putting the car [Veyron] through a hot test drive session
in South Africa when a bird flew right into its path. At the speed
of 330km/h it was like a small missile being hurled at the car and
it smashed through the six aluminium meshes in front of the
radiator and destroyed it.”
At this point there is no word to confirm the new super saloon will
be called Lydia or Royale, after the classic 1927 example. What we
do know is that Lydia/ Royale will be in addition to a smaller
version of the Veyron, to be made to compete in the Ferrari F430/
Lamborghini Gallardo space. Then appears a smaller version of
Royale itself, created to attack the Audi RS 6/ BMW M5/
Mercedes-Benz E AMG/ Cadillac CTS-V/ Jaguar XF-R/ Porsche Panamera
Turbo crowd. Only now I realise how big this crowd has actually
grown over the years!
Source:
http://www.worldcarfans.com/9080202.001/bugatti-to-build-a-more-exclusive-car