2006 Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Picture and Bugatti Cars Specificat

2006 Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Review

The guy behind the Starbuck’s counter on La Cienega noticed my Motor Trend cap: “Hey, you work there? Probably drivin’ a cool car tonight, right?” “A Kia minivan. But it’s pretty nice. DVD player in back for the kids.” He nodded silently and proceeded to make my green tea frappuccino. Worried that this guy’s image of the suave, bring-me-another-Ferrari automotive journalist was imploding like Ashley Simpson on “SNL,” I absurdly added, “But, um, we’ll be testing a Bugatti Veyron in about a week. Ever heard of a Bugatti?”The blender stopped. “Of course I’ve heard of it. Sixteen-cylinder W-type engine. Four turbos. A thousand horsepower. A million bucks. It’ll do, what– 250 mph?” Now I was nodding silently. He offered a straw.

2006 Bugatti Veyron 16.4

Exactly when did random baristas start memorizing facts about Bugatti automobiles? The original company’s heyday was the late twenties and early thirties–the curtain falling with le Patron’s fatal heart attack in 1947. During the ensuing 60 years, the 1750-odd pur sang machines remaining from the 7950 Molsheim produced have become the obscure relics of autodom’s closest thing to an extremist cult. The Veyron, on the other hand, is a media queen. Paris Hilton with all-wheel drive. Everybody knows something about it. Larry King will do an interview. And what’s behind its universal awareness (besides a VW propaganda machine screaming at redline)? Numbers. Great big memorable numbers.

2006 Bugatti Veyron 16.4

My barista friend already said them. When former VW chief Ferdinand Piech announced the future Veyron’s staggering four-digit horsepower and a terminal velocity a third the speed of sound, he destined his Bugatti to be on the lips of the masses. It was P.R. genius. Had he said it would have 751 horsepower and top-out at 187 mph, my frappuccino pal would’ve said he’d never heard of this Bugatti-whatever, but ahh…have you ever driven a Z06?

2006 Bugatti Veyron 16.4

There’s a finger-burning, pencil-snapping price to pay, however, when the claims come before the car: 1000 horsepower at the crankshaft means roughly 2000 more need to be expelled as waste heat–either exhaled through a watermain of an exhaust pipe or wafted from a dozen radiators. And artificially penciling the top speed at 407 kph (253 mph) tends to anger the aerodynamic demons whose temper, as we know, rises as a square of velocity. You have a sneaky feeling that Piech–who earlier in his career oversaw the creation of the Porsche 917’s 1500-horsepower flat-12 turbomotor and Audi’s paradigm-shifting quattro all-wheel drive–smiled as he tossed his troops a personal Rubics cube to solve as he went out the door. Go ahead and figure out this one, guys. I’ll have fun watching.

2006 Bugatti Veyron 16.4

Three years later, a pair of Veyrons emerge from the transporter ready to rumble on AMCI’s 9000-foot-long ex-airbase runway–a two-tone (they’re all two-tone) silver-and-white number for photos and a black-and-gray tester we covered with instrumentation (including front and rear ride-height sensors to observe the chassis’s hydraulically adjusted suspension).

2006 Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Specifications

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