Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport: Officially unveiled

Monday, August 18, 2008

Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport: Officially unveiled

The Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport has been officially unveiled at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance and is now the ultimate drop-top for every car enthusiast. Awesome!

As you'd expect, Bugatti hasn't just hacked the roof off the Veyron and gone to the pub. The windshield is slightly higher, the daytime running lights have been tweaked and then there's the showpiece: a removable, transparent polycarbonate roof, which blends the A-pillars into two painted carbon fiber strips that lead into the massive air intakes feeding the 1001 hp, quad-turbocharged, W16.

If you stow the roof at home for the world's fastest open-air, four-wheeled experience and the heavens decide to open, a folding roof stored in the luggage compartment can be – according to Bugatti – "opened like an umbrella." With the soft-top in place, speeds are limited to an incredibly low 130 km/h (81 mph), otherwise, the Grand Sport can hit 252 mph with the polycarbonate roof and 224 mph with the top removed.