Latest news on Bugatti Veyron
 

here is the latest, apparently first cars delivered roughly end of 2005 (does that mean mid 2006 :wink: )

http://www.thecarconnection.com/index.asp?article=7546

Lets hope it comes out on time, its so gorgeous

definately is big and beautiful, probably a bitch to park though :wink:

...some Porsche ppl from the EZW were present when Piech and Pischetsrieder met to a secret test drive with the 16.4 at VW test track Ehra-Lessien, the german equivalent to Nardo, Pischetsrieder managed 380kmh, Piech was a bit faster but couldn´t manage 390 - main limiting factor now isn´t aerodynamics any more, but fuel pumps for the 1100 horses...
0-100 with the reworked tranny from Ricardo should be 3sec flat, of course with the longer first gear...

that project will be interesting to watch... :wink:

They've sorted out the cooling then?

No doubt it'll be fast but i wonder how well it will really handle with lots of weight with the 4wd and big engine.... guess we'll find out sometime ;)

funny how its got nearly twice the HP of the F1 and might only just break its top speed record if at all

I read too that they had problems with fuel pumps. Whatever people can say, i find this project interesting and hope to see the result soon :P

I don't especially like the car and I don't think it will be a "good handling" car either. I do however have a huge respect for the engineers and people who are working on the project who constantly are trying to solve the problems involved with making a 1000+ Bhp, 4WD Bugatti come to life. :D

^^^same here...

i like the looks, hate the price. im sure since they can only make 50 per yr they wont have a hard time finding buyers...but i hope its reliable. i dont want it to take the road car top speed record from the mclaren tho...leave that one up to the koenigsegg CCR! :D

I;m not taking this prospect seiouslt as I've learnt not to believe the Bugatti folks :D Changing the release date..it's happened a few times before,may happen again. But I'm keeping my fingers crossed :D

1100 horsepower ?
why?
with 2000kg, now way to beat mclaren F1,
maybe im wrong

So much has been said about this car that even though it´s not my type of car, I´m really corious to see how good it really is. The pulling power must be super incredible but I´m not so sure about the handling. :?:

yes like super TT

I'm surprised that fuel pumps are the limiting factor. There are people in the RX7 community making more than 1000rwhp with 3 and 4 rotors using off the shelf fuel pumps (granted typically with multiple pumps). St-anger, do you have any details?

I second that too ... they push the limits farther :P