Bugatti Veyron Super Sport
On a beautiful sunny day at 25 degrees the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport achieved a new landspeed world record for production cars, on the proving grounds of the Volkswagen Group at Ehra-Lessien (nearby its headquarters at Wolfsburg). In the presence of the German Technical Inspection Agency (TÜV) and a representative of Guinness Book of Records the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport achieved an average top speed of 431 km/h.
Saturday, 2 pm - Bugatti's Pilote Officiel Pierre Henri Raphanel puts his helmet and gloves on, pulls the safety belts tight whilst the engineers check the car a very last time: tyre pressure, temperature, all systems go. Then the orange black Bugatti Veyron Super Sport crosses the light barrier, from now on the time will be taken, within one hour the car has to drive from South to North and then in the opposite direction. No one but the driver is allowed to touch the car during this time. The tension rises. A few minutes later we can hear from the left side the sound of a starting jumbo jet coming closer towards us. First we perceive the headlights of the Veyron, then we can recognize the shape of the car, a loud wooosh…. and Raphanel dashes in top speed past us. The GPS-tachometer stops at 427, 933 km/h. Now the same procedure from the opposite direction. This time the car reaches 434,211 km/h. As average top speed the representatives of the "TÜV"and Guinness generate a value of 431,072 km/h (268 mph). This even hit Bugatti's engineering team by surprise.
 Bugatti Veyron Super Sport (2011) |
"We took it that we would reach an average value of 425 km/h," explains Bugatti's chief engineer Dr. Wolfgang Schreiber, "but the conditions today were perfect and allowed even more."
The climax of the Veyron series: the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport
Had a model been especially popular or highly successful in races, Ettore Bugatti's customers often pushed the master to tease out of the engine a few horsepower more for their future car. Bugatti Automobiles S.A.S. had been in a similar situation when their existing customers asked the company to not only design their second model optically differently but to also create a version with a sportier and more extreme driving experience. The result is a car with a uniquely high performance of 1,200-hp (882 kW) offering experienced drivers a whole new dimension of excitement, with a maximum torque of 1,500 Newton metres and a limited top speed of 415 km/h (to protect the tyres) but, the technique of the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport is identical to the record car. The first five Bugatti Veyron Super Sports to come off the production line will constitute a special series of their own, with the same configuration as the landspeed record car.
The Bugatti Veyron Super Sport is a consequent of the further development of the classic exclusive 1,001-hp Bugatti Veyron 16.4, launched in 2005. This model offers a stunning set of specifications, such as the twin clutch gearbox with seven speeds, the extraordinarily precise driving performance in bends and excellent stability when braking and accelerating.
Continuous work in extreme performance ranges lead to constantly new conclusions, which enabled the engineers at Bugatti to develop the Veyron into a direction in which the driver can reach new dimensions. Every modification is designed to produce an even more powerful car for an agile ride. Four enlarged turbochargers and bigger intercoolers have been used to boost the power of the 16-cylinder engine, and the chassis has been extensively redesigned to maintain safety at extreme speed - thanks to slightly raised main-spring travel, stronger stabilisers, and new shock absorbers with a complex architecture originally developed for racing cars. This gives noticeably more precise control of the wheels and the car as a whole. With lateral acceleration of up to 1.4 G and improved interaction between the tyres and the intelligent all-wheel drive system, the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport offers perfect handling and even more powerful acceleration of 1,500 Newton metres on corner exits.
The body has been fine-tuned to improve aerodynamic efficiency and maintain perfect balance in every situation, while the new fibre structure of the all-carbon monocoque ensures maximum torsion rigidity and passive safety - at reduced weight. The skin is made entirely of carbon-fibre composites, and the new Bugatti Veyron Super Sport is available in 100 per-cent clearlacquered exposed carbon on request.
Dynamic exterior
Every detail of this car, and not just its use of advanced motorsport technology, harks back to the pioneering spirit of company founder Ettore Bugatti. This brilliant designer came from a family of artists, and his philosophy was always to combine mechanical perfection and exterior beauty. This ethos remains alive and well at the company, and the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport is wholly unmistakeable, with every external modification serving to coax greater performance from the car.
The Bugatti Veyron Super Sport's flat, elongated silhouette is immediately recognisable. The 16-cylinder engine gets its air from two NACA ducts integrated into the roof, rather than from scoops above the engine. The front air intakes have been expanded and reshaped, with the lower one extending elegantly around the sides to the wheel arch. The revised back looks sportier due to the double diffuser and a centrally arranged exhaust system.
Bugatti has a tradition of making super-sport versions of successful models, usually with racing chassis and supercharged engines. These cars were considered as true racing machines for diehard Bugatti devotees. The most successful were the type 55 and type 57S; only around forty of each were built.
Bugatti Automobiles S.A.S. has sold 260 Veyrons and 35 Grand Sports by now, of which 249 Veyrons and 22 Grand Sports had been delivered. The Bugatti Veyron Super Sport will begin production in the autumn of 2010 at Molsheim along with the Veyron and the Grand Sport. The first five cars - known as the World Record Edition - are in a special black exposed carbon and orange finish and have already been sold.
The Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport appeared for the first time in public in California at the Pebble Beach Concours weekend in mid-August, 2010 and was featured at The Quail, Monterey Historic Races at Laguna Seca and on the concept lawn of the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance.
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NEW YORK (DP) — Forbes majalah ekonomi dan bisnis yang terbit di Amerika Serikat membuat daftar mobil termahal di dunia awal 2011.
Bugatti Veyron Super Sport dinobatkan sebagai mobil termahal didunia dengan harga USD 2,6 juta. Veyron Super Sport juga diklaim sebagai mobil tercepat di dunia versi Guinness World of Record dengan kecepatan menembus 431 km/jam.
Sedangkan mobil termahal kesepuluh adalah Rolls-Royce Phantom Drophead Coupe yang dibanderol dengan harga USD 447 ribu.
Pabrikan sports car asal Italia, Ferrari, menempatkan tipe F70 dengan harga USD 870 ribu menjadi termahaal kelima. [dp/Wyu]
Daftar Mobil Termahal Versi Forbes:
- Bugatti Veyron Super Sport – $2.6 million
- Koenigsegg Agera – $1.5 million
- Maybach Landaulet – $1.405 million
- Pagani Zonda C9 – $1.3 million
- Ferrari F70 – $870,000
- SSC Ultimate Aero – $750,000
- LeBlanc Mirabeau – $728,000
- Ferrari SA Aperta – $520,000
- Lamborghini Murcielago LP670-4 SuperVeloce – $455,400
- Rolls-Royce Phantom Drophead Coupe – $447,000
Bugatti's 268mph Veyron Super Sport - the world's fastest production car
09:24 februari 18, 2011
Bugatti Veyron Super Sport
Whether it be the world’s fastest car or the world’s strongest beer, the old maxim that “competition improves the breed” seems to hold true. Volkswagen spent an extraordinary amount of money, time and effort creating the 408 km/h (254 mph), 1001bhp Bugatti Veyron in 2005 – it knocked off the 387.37 km/h (240.7 mph) record set by Koenigsegg’s CCR to become the fastest, most powerful and most expensive car ever built. Then SSC came along with the Ultimate Aero TT to set a new world mark of 412.28 km/h (256.18 mph). Now Bugatti’s new Veyron Super Sport has pushed the record to 431 km/h.
SSC held the title for three years, but although it is known to have a car under construction which is targeting 280 mph, it is a far more multi-dimensional company than one which just builds fast cars. One of its other interesting projects is worth a look.
One of the major problems with building extreme cars is that such companies also have an obligation to create vehicles which can safely travel at such extreme speeds, and it isn't cheap engineering a road car into the unknown realm beyond 400 km/h. SSC and Bugatti are the only manufacturers with cars available that will travel at more than 400 km/h and Bugatti's latest record has now pushed that to a whopping 431.072 km/h - putting that in perspective, it's a statement of capability of Bugatti-proportions.
Adding nearly 20 km/h to a world speed record, after 120 years of human endeavour in the field, is a gargantuan achievement. It's a quantum leap forward - the equivalent of shaving a second from the world record for the 100 metre dash. It's hard to believe it's even possible to do that and still be able to viably sell such vehicles by making a profit.
Four hundred and thirty one km/h is a fearsome speed.
That's as fast as Shanghai's Maglev train, and if you've ever had the pleasure of watching mother earth flash past at that speed from the Maglev, you will appreciate exactly what I'm referring to. Scenery becomes blurred. The whole carriages twitch very quickly and suddenly you're aware of hypersonic wind roar outside which even the magnificently engineered levitating projectile cannot disguise. It's 100 km/h faster than the current state-of-the-art 250 bhp 2010 MotoGP bikes. of Lorenzo, Pedrosa, Stoner, Rossi et al.Indeed, it's a speed you do not see even see on a racetrack because they are nowhere near long enough to get to top speed.
When they used Jenson Button's V10-powered Honda F1 car as a base for a land speed record in 2006, the best it could achieve on the salt flats at Bonneville was 400 km/h.
In two way average speeds over different distances it clocked 397.360 km/h (246.908mph) and 397.481 km/h (246.983mph). On one run down a measured mile, it bested the magic 400 km/h with a pass of 400.454 km/h. The original Veyron could outrun a Formula One car.
Aerodynamics play an important role at such speeds. For a record attempt that focusses on speed alone, it's basically how many horsepower can you muster to push the air out of the way, and then what you can do to reduce frontal area and co-efficient of drag, or aerodynamic friction.
Going fast is just half the battle for a luxury car manufacturer. Bugatti must also ensure a perfectly civilized automobile for all other speeds - quite some benchmarks to set when your car will hit 430 km/h
Then there's the safety aspect. It's also a frightful speed if things go wrong, and Bugatti has met the full measure of its responsibilities in producing a car engineered to be safe at that speed. This isn't a stripped out one-trick beast that can outrun a Formula One car on an autobahn, it's also a refined, roadgoing, well mannered automobile.
Five replica record-breakers will be built and sold, complete with identical everything, including paint. The five identical cars of unmatched exclusivity and provenance have already been sold to five very wealthy, undisclosed gentlepersons.
The vehicles are limited to a top speed of 415 km/h due to the limits of the tyres, not the car, but will be otherwise in identical tune and trim to the Super Sport driven by Bugatti’s Pilote Officiel, Pierre Henri Raphanel to the world record.
With our fullest respect, SSC will need to have some luck to best this speed any time soon. Based on extensive testing, the Bugatti team was aiming for a two-way average of 425 km/h when the attempt was staged. It was delighted to hit 427.9 km/h on the first run. On the return run, the car went even faster, clocking 434 km/h and returning an average speed 6 km/h faster than the target and nearly 20 km/h faster than the previous record, thanks to almost perfect conditions. Some speed record attempts in history have required entire teams camping on location for months for a record attempt. This was done and dusted in a day.
The speed is so high that it would have given the current day Bugatti Super Sports (had it been around back in the day), the outright land speed record until November 19, 1937 when British driver George Eyston’s Thunderbolt ran 311 mph on Bonneville Salt Flats. The most important thing to recognize with the Super Sports is that it is substantially reengineered from the original Veyron to cope with the added speed – the extreme forces on an automobile do not rise in a linear fashion as speeds rise from 410 km/h to 430 km/h and the Super Sport is indeed the climax of the Veyron series. It was not just a matter of squeezing an additional 200 bhp from the Veyron’s 1001 bhp W16 motor but upgrading every aspect of the Veyron to ensure the vehicle continues to behave well in the new realm beyond 410 km/h.
To fully understand Bugatti’s engineering approach, it is necessary to be aware of the history of the name.
In short, Ettore Bugatti was an Italian aristocrat born into a famous family of artists and sculptors. Bugatti tackled automation and became a lion in the development of high quality and high performance machinery. His track record of building machinery which captured world speed records in four quite different endeavours - cars, boats, trains AND aeroplanes, make Ettore Bugatti, an automation polymath with no equal.
Industrial giants, Kings, Heads of State and the wealthiest people of the day all sought Bugatti’s automobiles and if they were of poor manners or disposition, then he was just as likely to refuse them the badge of honour they sought.
Though he chose a different path to the rest of his family of extraordinarily high achievers, it was Ettore who gave the family name its global renown.
The Bugatti family (Ettore collaborated closely with his son Jean who died testing a race car in 1939) also built the most successful racing car in history and the most expensive automobile in history.
VW purchased the name a few years ago and created the fastest, most powerful, most expensive Veyron, and in so doing, the exclusive brand name was successfully resurrected.
The car which will follow the Veyron series will be the US$1,470,000 16C Galibier, which will be, predictably, the fastest, most exclusive and most powerful four door automobile available. The Galibier comes with a Tourbillon wristwatch by Parmigiani which doubles as the clock on the dashboard.
In keeping with a tradition established by the aforementioned aristocracy which would routinely ask Ettore to give their car a special extra few horsepower, Bugatti had apparently been getting similar requests from its current Veyron owners and the Super Sports has been cast as Bugatti’s response to its customer needs.
I’m sure that at least some of the justification for the Super Sport was also the desire to deliver an appropriate Bugatti response to the SSC world record.
Some examples of the detail of the new car are quite remarkable. The carbon fiber body has been aerodynamically refined for “efficiency” and so the car will “maintain perfect balance in every situation.” The refined shape and advances in carbon fiber construction have enabled the weight to be reduced from that of the original carbon fiber Veyron chassis, at the same time as increasing torsion rigidity. It's not just the top speed and the power that have changed. Almost everything is better.
This fits perfectly with the heritage of Bugatti, and the astonishing quality of its workmanship.
Bugatti designed and built the world's most successful racing car EVER - its record will never be matched. His cars, planes, boats and trains went faster than anything had ever done before.
But it is the legend of the sunken Bugatti which best illustrates just how good Bugatti was at building quality that lasted. Last July a salvage team pulled a 1925 Bugatti Type 22 from Lake Maggiore in Northern Italy, where it had been more than 50 meters below the surface, for over 70 years. How it got there, and the legend of its existence all contribute to the legend, but the remarkable condition of the car dwarfed all other aspects.
The car will soon be on display in America in its unrestored glory as living proof of the craftsmanship of the era in general, and the Bugatti marque in particular.
Now that the first five cars have been created in the record breaker’s black and orange livery, Bugatti’s customers can now order the car in clear lacquer. Without paint, the exquisite detail of the workmanship involved in building a car almost entirely out of carbon fibre composite becomes evident. Whatever the five owners of the replicas paid, their investment will almost certainly appreciate for a long time to come - one wonders what such a vehicle at auction might bring now?
While prodigious top speed is the most obvious difference from the original Veyron, there’s also better handling thanks to lighter weight, increased wheel travel, and revised suspension and new shock absorbers from motor racing. Bugatti claims this gives noticeably more precise control of the wheels and the car as a whole.
The top speed might be the most prominent marketing characteristic of the Super Sport, but in most environments, you’ll never see that speed – even long racetracks aren’t long enough to allow a car like this to approach its top speed.
Unless they wish to hire Nardo for a day, the owners of these cars will probably never see 431 km/h on the dashboard.
While the speed may not be evident, the most obvious driving characteristic that every driver will be perpetually aware of, every day, every time he or she depresses the accelerator just a millimeter or two, is the massive mid-range grunt.
How much grunt? Imagine getting 1,500 Newton metres of torque into those massive tyres on every corner exit. Bugatti claims “a lateral acceleration of up to 1.4 G plus improved interaction between the tyres and the intelligent all-wheel drive system”.
The innovative W16 light alloy engine develops a phenomenal 736 kW (987 bhp) at 6000/min and is installed in the mid-engine position ahead of the car's rear axle. Because of the W configuration - essentially two V8 engines grafted together, the 64 valve, 7,993 cc engine remains very compact at 710 millimetres long and 767 mm wide. The Veyron produced an almost unfeasibly strong mid-range, unleashing 1,250 Newton-metres via the intelligent all-wheel-drive - the Veyron Super Sport has an additional 20% more pulling power at useable speeds.
It achieved this increase of both 20% of mid-range and 20% of power, with the help of four enlarged turbochargers and bigger intercoolers.
The chassis is stronger and lighter and the suspension has also been reworked with more main-spring travel, stronger stabilisers, and new shock absorbers.
The Super Sport will begin production this year at Bugatti’s Molsheim plant and appeared for the first time on the concept lawn of the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance last month.
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