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Earlier this week, Top Gear exclusively revealed that Bugatti smashed through the 300mph 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 Chiron is: Super Sport 300+. As you can imagine, it"s not a million miles away from the record car. It shares the same sleeker, more aero-efficient streamliner bodywork. The same 8.0-litre, quad-turbo W16 unit still nicknamed Thor delivering 1,578bhp. And the same longer ratio gearbox to achieve that mind-scrambling velocity of 300mph. Three hundred! We still can"t quite believe we"re saying that. What has changed from the record is the fact that the passenger seat isn"t a pile of laptops and GPS data-logging equipment, rather an actual passenger seat. A sumptuous leathery passenger seat, at that. The driver"s seat is also the same rather than a safety-grade race seat Andy Wallace harnessed himself into. There"s also no roll-cage, and the ride height has been put back to standard to allow the car to be used on actual roads and an electronic speed limiter (just like the standard" Chiron) to make sure you don"t do the triple-ton on the autobahn. But it hasn"t been decided what this speed limiter will be set at. We"re guessing the insurance companies and tyre manufacturers are having a say in that one.
Date written: 8 Sep 2019
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 16831
Earlier this week, Top Gear exclusively revealed that Bugatti smashed through the 300mph 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 Chiron is: Super Sport 300+. As you can imagine, it"s not a million miles away from the record car. It shares the same sleeker, more aero-efficient streamliner bodywork. The same 8.0-litre, quad-turbo W16 unit still nicknamed Thor delivering 1,578bhp. And the same longer ratio gearbox to achieve that mind-scrambling velocity of 300mph. Three hundred! We still can"t quite believe we"re saying that. What has changed from the record is the fact that the passenger seat isn"t a pile of laptops and GPS data-logging equipment, rather an actual passenger seat. A sumptuous leathery passenger seat, at that. The driver"s seat is also the same rather than a safety-grade race seat Andy Wallace harnessed himself into. There"s also no roll-cage, and the ride height has been put back to standard to allow the car to be used on actual roads and an electronic speed limiter (just like the standard" Chiron) to make sure you don"t do the triple-ton on the autobahn. But it hasn"t been decided what this speed limiter will be set at. We"re guessing the insurance companies and tyre manufacturers are having a say in that one.
Date written: 8 Sep 2019
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 16831
