Bugatti Veyron 16.4; fastest, quickest, most powerful. It was an
expensive brief, but the company met it, albeit at extremely high
costs. So high in fact that the scheduled 300 (only 125 have been
delivered so far) profit-bleeders to be built will never return any
money to parent company Volkswagen. But resilient VW is about to do it
again!
Bugatti media communications manager Julius Kruta told Emirates
Business that Veyron is not the end of the story, even though it so
nearly became the end of VW itself.
“Even though it is not economically viable for us, we will do it
again,” said Kruta, “we have bigger plans for the future and the next
one from our stables will be even more expensive than the Veyron.” US
luxury car company Dimora may have a word or two about this with their
planned USD 2 million Natalia.
We know the Veyron is pretty special; the figures speak for themselves:
16 cylinders, four turbos, 1001 ps/ 736kW, 0 – 100km/h in 2.5 seconds,
top speed of 407km/h. Ironically if it didn’t have a rear wing it would
fly off! And Brad Pitt, if you are reading this, please email us to
confirm if the going price is still USD1.3 million.
“We were putting the car [Veyron] through a hot test drive session in
South Africa when a bird flew right into its path. At the speed of
330km/h it was like a small missile being hurled at the car and it
smashed through the six aluminium meshes in front of the radiator and
destroyed it.”
At this point there is no word to confirm the new super saloon will be
called Lydia or Royale, after the classic 1927 example. What we do know
is that Lydia/ Royale will be in addition to a smaller version of the
Veyron, to be made to compete in the Ferrari F430/ Lamborghini Gallardo
space. Then appears a smaller version of Royale itself, created to
attack the Audi RS 6/ BMW M5/ Mercedes-Benz E AMG/ Cadillac CTS-V/
Jaguar XF-R/ Porsche Panamera Turbo crowd. Only now I realise how big
this crowd has actually grown over the years!
Source: http://www.worldcarfans.com/9080202.001/bugatti-to-build-a-more-exclusive-car