What is the name of the fastest roadster in the world? This question can be answered affirmatively and unequivocally - Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse WRC 2013. Incredible, but true, a car with open top set a world record with a speed of 408.84 km/h.
Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse WRC (2013)
This car can be described in two words - intelligence and beauty. But what makes the Bugatti Sport Vitesse WRC a truly unique car is hidden under the hood. All its power comes from the 8-liter W16 engine, which absorbs 1200 Horse power. His high performance handling is determined by the chassis like that of racing cars, quickly responding shock absorbers and increased degree lateral stability.
The outer shell of the car is made entirely of carbon fiber. The main problem with all open-top cars is increased level noise in the cabin when driving. In the Vitesse, a specially designed roof spoiler eliminates this inconvenience, plus the amount of air turbulence affecting the supercar is reduced to a minimum.
Weighing 2.2 tons, the car accelerates to 100 km/h in just 2.6 seconds. Of course, it is worth understanding that such results also require a certain amount of fuel. Thus, fuel consumption in the city is 37.2 liters, on the highway - 14.9.
All this impressive power is kept on the road by an advanced system all-wheel drive And adjustable suspension, which can be adjusted to three different positions - Standart, Handling, Top Speed. The last mode is designed specifically for driving at above the maximum speed.
It should be noted that the Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse WRC 2013 model will be produced in only eight copies, each of which costs 1.99 million euros.
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Technical specifications of the Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse WRC (2013)
- Body type: Convertible;
- Engine: 16 cylinders, 8 liters;
- Engine power: 1200 l/s;
- Torque: 1500 Nm;
- Maximum speed: 408 km/h;
- Fuel consumption in the city: 37.2 l/100 km;
- Fuel consumption outside the city: 14.9 l/100 km;
- Acceleration from 0 to 100 km/h: 2.6 s;
Price Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse WRC
- Price: 1 million 990 thousand euros* *For the exact price of the Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse WRC, please contact your nearest Bugatti dealer.
Cylinder capacity 7,993 cm³
Power output 882 kW (1,200 HP) at 6,400 rpm
Max. torque 1,500 Nm at 3,000-5,000 rpm
Gearbox 7-speed DSG
Top speed 410 km/h
Acceleration
0 – 100 km/h 2.6 sec 0 - 100 km/h
0 – 200 km/h 7.1 sec 0 - 200 km/h
0 – 300 km/h 16.0 sec 0 - 300 km/h
Body
For the Vitesse, Bugatti developed a new roof spoiler that significantly reduces the sound of wind and turbulence in the interior cabin. In addition, there will also be a new wind deflector for the roadster that can be stored compactly in the boot when not in use.
Both details will also be available for the Grand Sport; together, the roof spoiler and wind deflector enable incredibly relaxed open-top driving even at speeds in the region of 200 km/h.
Optimized drive system
The increased power compared with the Grand Sport (199 hp) is primarily due to the use of four larger turbochargers and intercoolers. In addition, Bugatti also extensively reinforced all components of the drivetrain in order to safely transmit the immense forces.
The gearing of the seven-speed direct-shift gearbox (DSG) was specially adapted to the new conditions. The use of larger turbochargers and overall reduction in back pressure meant it was even possible to slightly reduce fuel consumption despite the increase in power. The fuel system from the Super Sport was used, including a four-pump tank.
Air scoops
A characteristic feature of the Grand Sport are the two air scoops on the left and right of the bonnet (which were redesigned for the Vitesse). These air scoops serve two functions in the roadster: firstly, they provide air intake for the engine and secondly, they are an elegantly integrated component of the rollover protection system.
Just like the Super Sport, the Vitesse uses a full-carbon monocoque which enables an extremely high torsional rigidity of 22,000 Nm per degree with maximum passive safety. The exterior is also made completely of carbon fiber.
When it comes to Bugatti , is a thousand horsepower a monstrously large amount, or is it not enough? Creators Vitesse modifications obviously they think that 1,000 horses is not so much, because they equipped the open Veyron with an engine from Super Sport , with a power of 1,200 hp. Thanks to this incredible power, Vitess fully lives up to its name - “Speed” translated from French, because it is the fastest and most powerful open, production car in the world.
Bugatti Veyron -This is a very special car. This miracle is assembled around the engine, so if something happens to the engine or gearbox, the car will have to be disassembled. It is for this reason that both the Veyron engine and gearbox are tested on the stand for 8 hours.
Price newis 3,000,000$.
Yes, at its costVitessesignificantly superior to the usual one, but there were not commensurately fewer of them made, and such exclusivity is very valuable on the used supercar market.
It is very interesting that even though all carbon fiber body panels, 
Just like the monocoque itself is created in Germany, they are sent to Italy for final fitting. Compared to the base Veyron, the Vitesse's air intakes were enlarged. The curb weight increased by 22 kg and amounted to 1900 kg.
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You can pay attention to the forged aluminum wheels, which are wearing 265-width tires at the front and 365-width tires at the rear. It is also noteworthy that the tiresMichelin Pilot Sport Pacwere developed specifically for Bugatti, they are made by hand, and one set costs 20,000 euros.
Behind the front discs are brakes with ceramic discs with a diameter of 400 mm, and titanium, eight-piston calipers. 
It is worth noting that the Veyron hubs are also made of Titanium. Rear brake disk The Veyron has a diameter of 380 mm and is clamped by six piston calipers. As you know, an active rear spoiler also works here together with the brakes, which increases the deceleration efficiency by 30%.
On the pictureBugatti Veyron Vitesseyou can see what the interior of this luxurious car looks like.
- SpecificationsBugatti Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse
We have already talked about the power of the Bugatti Veyron. But the Veyron is striking not only in terms of power, but also in traction. Just imagine - 1500N.M is available already at 2000rpm.
Eight liter W16Veyron accelerates to 100 km in just 2.6 s, to 200 in 7.1 s, and to 300 in 16 s. The mighty supercar covers a quarter mile in just 9.7 seconds. Previously inwe have already looked at the characteristicsBugatti Veyron.
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that the one hundred liter aluminum tank of the Veyron is equipped with special sensors and a device that tilts the tank based on the data received from these sensors so that during sharp turns gasoline does not overflow to one of the walls of the tank.
The maximum speed of the Veyron Vitesse is 410 km per hour, and this is significantly higher than the speed limit for.
This model was produced from 2012 to 2015 and became a replacement for the Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport.
Specifications
The limited edition handcrafted Bugatti Vitesse Convertible remains unchanged when compared to the inside. It is still possible to achieve a speed of 100 km/h using an eight-liter power unit W16, equipped with four turbines. The engine power is 1,200 hp, unfathomable for other supercars. With. The torque of 1,500 Nm has a positive effect on the acceleration of the hypercar.
Automatic 7-speed transmission interacts harmoniously with all parts of the car. It is possible to reach 100 km/h in 2.6 seconds, while the speed limit is 408.8 km. Well-known bugatti car Veyron Vitesse brings a lot of positive emotions to the life of its owner, achieved with high speed and comfort.
Exterior
The main component in the manufacture of the body was carbon fiber, which has proven itself in the automotive industry with the best side. The body design is highlighted by attractive dark red inserts located on the rear half of the car. It is noteworthy that Bugatti company was the first among manufacturers to use carbon fiber in the manufacture of cars. At least this is what the top executives of the brand claim.
On both sides of the body, the beauty of the supercar is complemented by black spots that “spread” over the surface of the car. Design work is practically invaluable, and the contribution of the company’s specialists exceeded all expectations.
Interior
The interior is made in cream shades, combined with red upholstery. The Bugatti veyron grand sport vitesse was not created for trips around the city and quiet “walks” in nature: its calling is smooth flights over the road surface.
Tires and brakes
Bugatti created unique tires, a creation born in partnership with Michelin. The tires are able to withstand the loads observed at speeds of 400 km/h. Brake system high performance equipped with all the components necessary to control the strength and power of the car. With effective brake system, which works when a quick stop is necessary in tandem with unique tires, it is possible to completely stop the hypercar in a negligible amount of time.
Veyron Grand Sport deservedly occupies one of the first places in the world among cars of this level. Speed, maneuverability, sophistication are an incomplete list of the strong qualities inherent in the Vitesse sport car.
The Bugatti brand introduced in 2015 latest model in the line of hypercar Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse La Finale, which became the 450th in the line of manufactured cars. 300 coupes and 150 roadsters were produced in 10 years under the brand name, and therefore this model of the brand is worthy of your attention.
Limited and special editions
Based on the Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse model, 9 unique modifications were created in very limited quantities, and some even have one unit cm.
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World top speed record on the Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse
Video of how the Grand Sport Vitesse is assembled
Top Gear trying to stay calm as the Veyron Vitesse approaches 200 mph
It varies depending on the car and the road, but speeds over 240 km/h are, as a rule, already Twilight.
There you become personally acquainted with the concepts of airflow, aerodynamics and, most importantly, downforce. You can feel the front wheels yaw and suddenly find yourself in zero gravity. So if the scientific minds calculate something wrong, your butt will be the first to let you know. However, nothing like this happens in the Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport Vitesse. (It’s hard to pronounce, so it’s better to call the car briefly: GSV). Great name: this roadster can accelerate to 410 km/h.
That is, 240 km/h in it is equivalent to approximately 50 km/h in ordinary car. Trying to reconfigure your internal speedometer to this fact is a hopeless task. The eyes and, of course, the ass send information to the brain along the neural superhighway, but the Bugatti is ahead of it. The feeling couldn’t be more wonderful. As if everything you knew before turned out to be a lie.
The blue telemetry box slapped at the bottom of the windshield shows 319 km/h. This is very, very high speed. But honestly, the Veyron is such an engineering masterpiece that once you get this far into the Twilight, you don't even break a sweat.
Metaphorically. The real sweat is pouring non-stop as we are deep in the South African veldt. It's summer here now, and the mercury rises to 38 degrees. Get into the Veyron in this sticky heat and you learn all about heatstroke. Even if there is no roof and the air blows on you at speed.
THE EYES SEND INFORMATION TO THE BRAIN, BUT BUGATTI ADVANCES IT
But that is the point of their mission. The GSV is essentially a Veyron Super Sport with a removable roof. This means this car is made to be driven every day and to use the full range of its amazing capabilities. This is an undeniable feat. After all, the power here is 1200 hp. – yes, believe your eyes, and the torque is 1500 Nm. Incredible, incomprehensible, but... fact, and it works.
The southernmost cape of Africa lies on the same parallel as Sydney, and now there is unremitting heat and dust against the backdrop of incredible beauty of the landscape with verdant mountains. A group of engineers came here to make sure that the car would not blow up in such heat. Top Gear joined them for a couple of days. We need to find out what they did so that a car without a roof could accelerate to 410 km/h. Just think about it!
Bugatti's main developers spent an awful lot of time in the Twilight. It's amazing how they can still walk upright. Jens Schulenberg and Christian Weiss are the unfortunate ones tasked with keeping us in line for 48 hours. They are helped by the mournful, but absolutely brilliant PR man and “keeper of tradition” Julius Kruta. Julius won't mind if I say his full name: Franz Julius Liberius Sinbad Kruta. “My parents were quite eccentric,” he says, smiling bitterly.
But Jens is especially colorful. He's a Veyron veteran: he's been in the program since day one (it started in 2001, I can't believe it). He estimates that he has logged more than 50,000 km on various Veyrons over the years. Once I even accelerated from zero to 360 km/h ten times to check whether this could be done at a distance of 2300 meters. “Only 300 meters was not enough,” he says. Yes, it's cooler winter tests VW Polo.
Jens was working with the electrical and had to figure out how to place all the components. If you think about it, he is a real genius. But he has a Morris Traveler and a Morgan Plus 8: underneath the steely exterior of the German engineer lies an eccentric fan. Not everyone is capable of conducting tests of this kind. The case is very process oriented. It only moves when everyone concerned is focused on working in a very harsh conditions, know how to properly connect a computer, and can count.
Given that the Veyron was and remains the love child of VW Group boss Ferdinand Piech, the entire enterprise still operates with a spirit of vitality and dazzling radiance (but not the car itself - the hardest-working Bugatti in the world).
The next morning we moved to a giant testing facility on the outskirts of the coastal town of Port Elizabeth. The town is a slightly wild mixture of closely adjacent rich and poor areas. There is a wide strip of surf and a cool beach, surrounded by parade rows of luxury condominiums and hotels.
VW's Port Elizabeth testing facility is located in the middle of an industrial outskirts. The company here assembles the Polo and the Citi, a slightly warmed-up version of the Golf MkI. In the city of the latter there is simply the sea, which creates a feeling of traveling back in time. The test track is decent, but the Veyron is only suited to the track at Ehra-Lessins - the one where James May briefly shed his Captain Snail guise in a Super Sport two years ago. Therefore, here we are just getting briefed, and then we will go to the veld on an unofficial test route.
We are commanded by Jacques, huge as a bear. It is immediately clear that he is not to be trifled with. Considering that official testing of the VW Group takes place here, we are obliged to strictly adhere to the rules, especially safety precautions. Even the hardened Top Gear professionals are prone to improvisation at times, but Jacques seems to have a nose for disobedience. “Do what I say,” he warns in clipped notes of Afrikaans in English, although he is from Belgium, “and when I speak. This is very powerful car, and at this time of year it’s easy for all sorts of goats to jump out onto the road. If you don't want to run into them at 200 km/h, then listen to me. And watch out for the monkeys. They are not at all as kind as they seem.”
And the Veyron GSV is annoying and shocking just by its appearance. He's not handsome, but you can't take your eyes off him. A block of carbon fiber, the silhouette of which arches in an almost continuous arc, slightly reminiscent of a pig's back. Like most megacars, the eye-catching tires are huge, like communications satellites. They are made by hand, cost 20,000 euros per set, and high speed the pressure in them can reach 3.6 bar. In fact, they can explode if the speed is not limited to 410 km/h.
Becoming a GSV involves many changes. First of all, external ones. There is a new spoiler on the roof (here it is hidden under white tape). It divides the air flow over the car in two, which reduces noise. The front air intakes have become larger, mainly for cooling front differential. Take a closer look and you'll see additional elegant air intakes under the headlights: they help cool the wheel arches.
THE EIGHT-LITER W16 IS A MONSTER. HISSING, WHISTLING AND BURNING 30 CENTIMETERS FROM THE BACK OF YOUR HEAD
The GSV is almost 200 horsepower more powerful than the regular Grand Sport: larger turbines (four pieces) and new intercoolers. New fuel pumps (also four) are from the SS to cope with the GSV's even more manic mixture demands. Chassis parts are reinforced, internals DSG boxes strengthened, brakes and their cooling improved. There are new shock absorbers to reduce longitudinal roll during acceleration, and ESP is set to intervene a little later. They say that the Veyron can develop lateral g-forces of 1.4 g - another fact from the arsenal of amazing statistics. I'm not sure my stomach can handle 1.4 g. But today there are no lateral overloads in the plan, because we are facing high-speed throws in a straight line. VW has an agreement with the South African government that they can accelerate to plus or minus 200 km/h, so the Veyron, to our delight, has a “Government approved high-speed test vehicle” sticker plastered on it.
Our column is leaving. We're on the glamorous side of the auto industry, but even here there's drudgery. Extraordinarily important, but mundane work. “We come here to find out how the car supports temperature regime transmission, front and rear differential, engine, brakes,” says Jens. – It’s very dusty here, and we’re testing air filters- to calculate how long they last and when they need to be changed. We constantly accelerate sharply, then turn off the engine - do the pumps cope in such a situation?”
A day in the veld usually ends at the base with an evening of poring over numbers. “We go and record information,” continues Jens. “Then in the evening we merge everything and filter the data. I write a report and send it to the boss in Wolfsburg. At home, the engineering team will receive my analysis and decide that another part needs to be developed, or find something that can be optimized.”
For an engineer of his caliber, this is a dream project. But not quite an ordinary way of life. “The tests can last for weeks,” admits Jens. “I already know my colleagues better than my own wife!”
The Veyron sounds like no other car in the world. If the main thing for him in speed and acceleration is to subjugate the air, then his 8-liter engine is a masterpiece of supercharging. Even at normal speeds, he doesn't let you forget that he is a monster. Hisses, whistles and loudly burps. The pistons are hammering furiously 30 centimeters from the back of your head. A very unusual soundtrack, of course, but the faster you go, the better it gets. And what he lacks in harmony, he gains in drama.
The Veyron stops traffic and draws crowds of fascinated onlookers even on the golden streets of Mayfair. And we are passing Steytlerville, 160 km from Port Elizabeth. Veyron bursts into his life with the effect of a climactic landing spaceship in “Close Encounters.” Steytlerville is a poor town, but people are besieged by the Veyron. He becomes a star, everyone photographs and films him. Jacques is worried that something will leak on YouTube or Facebook, but I'm just pleased to see such a joyful reaction.
BUGATTI VEYRON IS NOT PRETTY, BUT YOU CAN'T TAKE YOUR EYES AWAY
We will rush along the road leading out of the city. We drive 16 km and then pull into a pocket. A few minutes later we leave, gradually picking up speed, preparing to accelerate at full speed. The engine fires and roars under the fierce midday sun. Monkeys scatter from the roadsides. The tires are rumbling. “This road,” I say to Jens, “does it go straight for how long, ten kilometers?” He smiles, and the wind blows through the upper edge of the windshield. “No, another 60 kilometers...”
Here he presses into the floor. And the Veyron breaks the laws of physics. Once again...
TEXT: JASON BARLOW / PHOTO: WOLFANGO
