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Written by Ollie Kew
You can probably recite the figures off by heart. One thousand metric horsepower. Fifteen-hundred metric torques. 253 miles per hour. Twelve minutes to drain a tank at full chat. Eight litres, four turbos, and sixteen cylinders. The absurd Top Trumps of the Bugatti Veyron made it, like it or hate it, a modern motoring legend. All thanks to the bloody-mindedness of VW Group boss Ferdinand Piech, and the dedication of his most defeat-adverse engineers. Here"s where the Veyron story began in earnest.We first got a good idea of where the proposal for a 1000PS, 400kph motor car was going way back in 1999, when Bugatti gave us this. It is the EB 18.4 Veyron concept.
Date written: 21 Nov 2016
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 5858
You can probably recite the figures off by heart. One thousand metric horsepower. Fifteen-hundred metric torques. 253 miles per hour. Twelve minutes to drain a tank at full chat. Eight litres, four turbos, and sixteen cylinders. The absurd Top Trumps of the Bugatti Veyron made it, like it or hate it, a modern motoring legend. All thanks to the bloody-mindedness of VW Group boss Ferdinand Piech, and the dedication of his most defeat-adverse engineers. Here"s where the Veyron story began in earnest.We first got a good idea of where the proposal for a 1000PS, 400kph motor car was going way back in 1999, when Bugatti gave us this. It is the EB 18.4 Veyron concept.
Date written: 21 Nov 2016
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 5858
