Bugatti Veyron SS ?

I don't like all of these variations. At what point are the buyers of the original Veyrons going to feel taken advantage of and turn their backs on the company?

Build it right the first time and there should be no need for bigger/better. Even so, maybe a street and track version, but that's it.

 

+1

 

http://www.dupontregistry.com/autos/blog/post/2010/6/25/Is-this-the-first-image-of-the-Bugatti-Veyron-Supersport.aspx

 

Ew.

 

If they can pull it off, that's insane.

but, I really hope it turns out better looking than that!

 

That render/prototype looks like a Maybach Exelero had pre-marital relations with a Veyron.

 

That's true.

 

At no time did Bugatti say that "this is the final version" in fact, quite the opposite. Every delivered customer car is a development car, and they told the first-time owners just that. The one I was privy to delivery, and orientation; the rep had stated what generation Veyron his was, and that further evolutions were always in the works... maybe not any drastic modifications as much as improved reliability, and "details" that are altered.

When you are asking a person to part ways with nearly 2M, I would expect a large degree of custom coachwork. The market has shown that the special edition (pur sang, sang noir, hermes etc.) don't pull significant extra $... at least not that I've seen.

 

I did not know this. Thanks for the education. I'm glad to see there is full disclosure.

I still stand by my statement, though - I'm glad there aren't a bunch of different variations and evolutions of the McLaren F1...and I was kind of hoping that the Veyron would be similar.

 

McLaren F1...

F1 GTR
F1 GTR LM
F1 LM
F1 Long tail
F1 short tail

(I'm no F1 expert) but each car that was made was full of 'custom coachwork' ... and with every sale, the new owner has the option to basically go back to the proverbial drawing board from what I understand.

I think a big difference was that a lot of the Bugatti variants were displayed with big press releases, and that "5 versions will be made" of this or that option...

 

What the hell is a GTR LM?

McLaren made the following:
Standard road car (the ones you normally see)...5 prototypes that look like them.
1995 F1 GTRs to race (obviously) and were "short tails" like the road car (9 total)
1996 F1 GTRs to race (again) and were "short tails" (9 total)
1997 F1 GTRs to race as "long tails" (10 total). This required, by FIA, road cars be made. 3 longtail road cars were made (1 of which was a prototype)

To commemorate the 1995 24 Hours of LeMans victory (5 F1 GTRs finished the race), McLaren built 5 LMs to sell to the public. One additional example exists, which is the prototype.

The way I see it, McLaren didn't make a bunch of special editions like Bugatti is. Instead, they made a bunch of regular road cars, then a bunch of race versions (with one of them requiring road cars be made). THEN they made a "special" version (LM) to commemorate the 24 Hours OVERALL victory + the 4 others that crossed the line.

Meanwhile, Bugatti has:

Pur Sang
Fbg Par Hermès
Sang Noir
Bleu Centenaire
Grand Sport
Grand Sport Sang Bleu
Grand Sport Gray Carbon
Super Sport

Nothing as special as the special edition F1 LM that was made.

 

The good thing is that it has (allegedly) shed 300 KGs. Still a heavy beast though .

The orange and black is just ugly....But I guess it wouldn't that big of a deal to get the car all black (hide some of its ugliness ).

 

Veyron SS is ~50kg lighter than regular one.
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May was wrong, he said the Bugatti's test drivers average was 431kph which is 269.37mph not 267mph. Stunning car though.