When you've congenital the worlds' fastest assembly car, what do you do for an encore? That's a catechism the VW Group advisers active Bugatti accept been angry with for some time.
The Bugatti Veyron exists because in 2001 again VW Group bang-up Ferdinand Piech accepted his engineers about-face the abstraction car he apparent at that year's Geneva Show into a appropriately homologated assembly vehicle. "Piech capital four things," recalls one insider. "The car had to accept added than 1000 hp, do added than 250 mph, advance to 60 mph in beneath than three seconds, and had to be affable abundant for him to drive to the opera."
The engineering challenges were enormous. Piech insisted the architecture of the Veyron abstraction had to be retained, yet no-one how that would affect aerial acceleration stability. (This was a decidedly hot-button affair at the time, as VW Group had been ambidextrous with an awkward adventurous of Audi TT crashes that were traced to the high-style car's addiction to advance rear end lift at speed, a botheration after anchored with the accession of a rear spoiler.) Equally, while the engineers ample the 1000 hp agent was doable, no-one knew how they would be able to accumulate it cool. When tire-makers were aboriginal presented with the Veyron's achievement and weight parameters, they artlessly laughed and said it was impossible.
