Bugatti Veyron: Featured in Winding Road

The biggest power output, the highest top speed and the most enormous price tag of any road car yet: which car is it? Yes, the Bugatti Veyron! Winding Road has a great article about it in their latest issue.

This car is already the stuff of legend. In the early days of its development, so one of the stories goes, the engineers were struggling to get the needed power from the engine. So they asked for a meeting with Dr. Ferdinan Piech of parent company VW/Audi and suggested it might be easier to launch the Veyron with 700 to 800 hp and work up to 1000 hp with later derivatives, once they'd figured out how to do it. Piech fixed them with the famous deathrays, dismissed their suggestion and ordered them out, telling them not to return until the power figure started with a one.

But the horsepower isn't the only extraordinary statistic, of course. On the evening before our test drive, we'd only been in Sicily for a couple of hours, and I was already suffering from number fatigue...

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Bugatti Veyron: Featured in Winding Road

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