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Even for an automotive journalist, a Bugatti is
a rare moment ... a special ride around great |
The Big Dipper? Boring. The roller coaster? Soporific. To the adrenaline, the Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport has no equivalent. This variant of the Alsatian discoverable supercar breath away like a jet.
Rain, no rain? In MY day driving the Grand Sport, the "targa" version of Veyron coupe, the sky can not do this to me ...
With its 1001 hp and price of 1.4 million euros, excluding taxes, this Bugatti eclipse all cars except that I had the privilege of driving since I started to L'Automobile Magazine. But then, on the morning of July it rains. A persistent rain, depressing, that we follow most of the day, giving us a reprieve only an hour before we parted our toy for billionaires. This is the soup grin, as for Thomas, the photographer, for me, ultrafrustré be sitting on a firecracker not really for rain. The Grand Sport has beautiful announce that 40 kg more than the coupe, the frieze 2 tons empty, and tires are an unusual width: 26.5 cm in front, 36.5 cm behind. Furthermore, vigilance is required in each sleeping policeman or other defects of the floor. It takes some getting used to cross them off, otherwise offending below the beautiful.
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If the sound of the 16-cylinder is not the most
exhilarating, acceleration is they, breathtaking |
Benefits
Stratospheric performance
Surprising ease
Motor reassuring
Pitfalls of
Sound disappointing
Prohibitive tariff
Apart from that, and if we put aside the driving position to the ground and width of about 2 m, the Grand Sport drives like a Golf. DSG ensures smooth driving, relaxed, while the four-wheel drive motor provide a reassuring view of the huge torque available - 1250 Nm, or the strength of five engines Audi A3 1.8 Turbo combined! Too bad the sound of the 16-cylinder is no more intoxicating. At idle, the 8-liter Bugatti back position gurgles a bit like a boat, and do not pack more on acceleration, even in the absence of the roof. A fortiori if your eardrums have remembered the exuberance of a Ferrari V8 or V12 Aston Martin. In short, the Veyron Grand Sport does not offer spell is expected from the queen of supercars.
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Violence thrust disrupts brain surprised that the
decor also packs quickly |
On the roads of Alsace and the Vosges, the Bugatti therefore be tamed with incredible docility. Hats off gentlemen engineers VW group have accomplished the feat of making the Veyron everyday use. A slight lull finally began. Quickly the throttle is wide open, and a giant hand snatches us bitumen glistening moisture. Despite the all-wheel drive, it requires the intervention of the traction control to curb the brutality of W16. Violence thrust disrupts brain surprised that the decor also packs quickly. And I totally let go the bridle later. To situate the discussion, note that Formula 1 goes from 0 to 100 km / h in less than 2.3 s. The Grand Sport requires, according to Bugatti, 2.6 s. Add 4.7 seconds, and here we are at 200 km / h. The unconscious is 9.4 s more foot to the floor sprayed the threshold of 300 km / h. The storm calms down later.
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Impress a driver Mirage 2000 is not a foregone
conclusion ... unless a Veyron at hand |
Finally, it seems, because today the conditions are not met to go check if the Grand Sport is indeed the world's fastest discoverable: 360 km / h announced, and even more than 400 km / h with roof up! This Bugatti is therefore more fighter aircraft than the automobile. Its structure, consolidated blows carbon to support the removal of the roof, demonstrates impeccable rigidity. Will preserve all the qualities of this frame we have just been seeking. Similarly, braking, told discs 400 mm carbon-ceramic is assisted at high speed, the rear spoiler that deploys as a spoiler. Another common with aviation.
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100 km/h in less than 3 seconds, 300 km/h in less than
17 s, this Bugatti is an alien. But ride is a bike |
Moreover, a parachute to shorten the stopping distance would not necessarily be superfluous in this Bugatti, as the 8-liter turbocharged four-doped propels the Grand Sport to stratospheric speeds in a flash. This W16 operates as a monstrous turbodiesel that drives like a bully 2000-6500 r / min. The speeds are linked together so quickly that it is better to leave the dual clutch DSG automatic. One eye glued to the road, the other stuck on the counter horses, hoping to see, fleetingly, the needle beyond the magical threshold of 1,000 thoroughbreds. For that alone, this Bugatti is unique, that appears to 1.67 million euros, more than the entire Ferrari range met.
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