BUGATTI Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport

Veyronfan · **Joined:** Mon Nov 17, 2008 7:56 am **Posts:** 576

bugatti91 wrote:

D55L wrote:

This Gran Sport is simply insane.

I do not like so much .. see that it isn't an official special edition

It is one-off car like Veyron Pegaso and some others. I like it a lot, but I am waiting hard for some official special editions of Gran Sport, they must be astonishing.

bugatti91 · **Posted:** Tue Sep 22, 2009 6:44 pm

D55L wrote:

bugatti91 wrote:

D55L wrote:

This Gran Sport is simply insane.

I do not like so much .. see that it isn't an official special edition

It is one-off car like Veyron Pegaso and some others. I like it a lot, but I am waiting hard for some official special editions of Gran Sport, they must be astonishing.

preferisco le versioni speciali ufficiali... questa e fatta un po ad hok..
nn mi piacciono le compinazioni.. sopratutto le strisce nere che passano per i montanti.. non mi piacciono..
sembra una macchina tamarra da rapper

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bugatti91 · **Posted:** Sun Sep 27, 2009 7:39 pm

2009 Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport - First Drive Review
Moby quick: The Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport is the embodiment of VW chairman Dr. Piëch's manic quest.

Tuesdays can be unpredictable at Car and Driver. For example, one Tuesday this past July there was suddenly not one but two Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sports shimmering in the sunlight by our doorstep. Targa roofs jettisoned, they were a glistening pair of $2,128,230 carbon-fiber blisters seething with recherché decadence.

Two Grand Sports parked side by side look like the roller skates of a golem that wears a 75-foot silk Armani. With just five hours allotted, we grabbed the key to one Bugatti and took off, figuring we’d leave the other in reserve just in case of trouble. You never know about Tuesdays.

The world’s way-fastest production car went on sale in 2005, though just 225 or so coupes have been ordered. Eventually, Bugatti plans to make 300 Veyron coupes and 150 Grand Sport roadsters, unless the Sultan of Brunei decides to hand them out as party favors, in which case there could be more. With time to reflect on what was wrought by 21st-century technology enslaved to an ancient impulse to express wealth and power, we’ve come to some conclusions.

First, the Veyron can never be to the millennial generation what the Lamborghini Countach was to Gen X. The Humpty Dumpty shape simply lacks the malevolence to make a good wall poster. And the Veyron doesn’t have scissors doors.

Also, Ferdinand Piëch is nuts.

Madmen don’t often get to run major car companies. The Volkswagen chairman with the long inseam and burnished forehead, last seen dining on the bones of Porsche after it launched a plucky and ultimately futile takeover of VW, is an engineer with a reliable taste for the bizarre and inscrutable. Piëch has run VW and its various children, including Bugatti, as his personal fetish factory since 1993. It’s been a glorious spectacle.

There were freakish W-12 and W-8 engines. There were VWs priced on top of Audis, an Audi that outperforms and undercuts a Lamborghini, and a VW that tried to be a Mercedes. Remember the Phaeton and its $200 million glass factory with Canadian maple floors? Hey you, in the pinstripe, put down the car company and back away slowly!

Details about the Veyron Grand Sport: There is a 36-pound transparent polycarbonate roof that is removed with help from a friend. There’s also a black canvas tarp with carbon-fiber bows that covers the cockpit like a Nicoderm patch. By twisting a glossy aluminum and carbon-fiber rod that is threaded at one end—the rod probably costs more than a new Toyota Yaris—you slowly unpucker the canvas like an umbrella and snap it into place, then stow the rod inside a tube in the cockpit.

With the roof affixed, you can match the Bugatti coupe’s full 253-mph top speed if you own a considerable section of interstate freeway. With the umbrella in place, Bugatti strongly advises not exceeding 100 mph, which is roughly the high end of second gear. With no roof, the Grand Sport’s corrupted aerodynamics permit only 224 mph, which we strongly advise against if you’ve ever had hair transplants.

Counting the 26.4-gallon fuel tank and the roughly 26 gallons of lubricant and water aboard, there are close to 400 pounds of liquids in a fully tanked Grand Sport. The 1001-hp, 7998cc quad-turbo W-16 engine; the seven-speed dual-clutch transmission; and the differentials, driveshafts, and Haldex electronic all-wheel-drive system represent another 1800 pounds or so.

Which means that if you smack a wall head-on in a Veyron, the hurtling engine seeks to crush you like a ripe watermelon. Removing the roof only weakens the cabin, so the Grand Sport’s doors are of sturdier carbon fiber instead of aluminum, as in the coupe, with carbon-fiber columns inside that reinforce the passenger capsule in an impact. The A-pillars are also thicker, and the transmission tunnel is fully boxed for more rigidity.

Everything inside a Bugatti is freshly dug out of a bauxite mine or herded off some pasture in upper Lombardy. The controls, from the numbly robotic steering to the backup camera embedded in the rearview mirror, would be familiar to most Lexus drivers. That is, except for the seven-speed transmission, which often ignores commands and generally behaves as though it’s waiting for someone more important to take your place. Also, the window switches are backward.

Punching the Grand Sport sans roof is like sticking your head up the nostrils of Seattle Slew. The inlet ducts, which are a few inches behind the seats, inhale as if they’re sucking the oxygen out of the surrounding five square miles. The ticking of the injectors hastens as they revert to hose-down mode, and there’s a cymbal crescendo of the four turbos as they spool up, and then—hang on a sec, you’re about to rear-end the horizon. Somewhere, faint amid all the heavy breathing, is the exhaust, making a catty little growl.

Even carrying an extra 220 pounds over the 4500-pound coupe, the Grand Sport still makes any car you used to consider fast seem quaintly oafish. Does a Bugatti have too much power? Does Piëch? The throttle is somewhat unpredictable due to the turbo lag. Rarely do you want to go full-bore—it’s chancy unless you have choppers scanning the road ahead for any Ferraris dawdling along at 170.

But finding a medium pedal pressure for a normal situation, say, passing a mere middle-class peasant with a suitably haughty burst of speed, is equally challenging. You may find yourself facing an oncoming bus while the turbos are still spooling, the transmission is still debating which gear you deserve, and you are looking for the eject button. Which is right before you blur into a blueshifted, rapidly balding streak of light.

If you’re stuck between the Veyron coupe and the Grand Sport, consider that for the price difference of $304,732, you could buy a new Porsche Boxster for each of the next six people you meet at the gas pump. Do it on a Tuesday so they won’t be completely shocked by your generosity.

Even at its dazing price, the Veyron won’t clear a profit at its advertised volume. And there are more stimulating cars to drive for comparative pocket change. The $150,200 Audi R8 V-10 is one. Perhaps the world doesn’t need a 1001-hp Bugatti as much as Piëch does.

Future car-show judges may protest, but the ludicrous Bugatti with its quad-turbo, W-16 gorgon is nothing more significant than the fullest expression of one man’s mania. As such, it appears to fall into a familiar pattern. The Duesenberg brothers, Enzo Ferrari, John De Lorean—they all built ego-fueled cars and all went broke or sold out or just sold cocaine. But none had the resources that Piëch has.

Perhaps Bugatti will make an entry-level Veyron without the turbos. Sure, you’ll have to suffer the indignity of not having more horsepower than is legal in almost every form of racing. But absent all that huffing and puffing, the throttle will be lively, the exhaust note sexy, and the drive more pleasurable. There’s been talk, but right now all we know is that Bugatti plans a sedan with the power and opulence to rival the Veyron.

So sit back and enjoy a rare delight. A madman is on the loose with a car company, and he intends to use it.

bugatti91 · **Posted:** Sun Sep 27, 2009 8:15 pm

Veyronfan · **Joined:** Mon Nov 17, 2008 7:56 am **Posts:** 576

New pics from Hessing - Dutch Bugatti dealer.

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Scuderia CC · **Posted:** Fri Oct 02, 2009 9:26 am

Grand Sport in Paris behind "Le Bristol" palace :

http://news.caradisiac.com/Photos-du-jo ... -Sport-127

bugatti91 · **Posted:** Sun Oct 04, 2009 12:38 pm

Grand Sport For Sale

http://www.romansinternational.com/modu ... 58&offer=#

Veyronfan · **Joined:** Mon Nov 17, 2008 7:56 am **Posts:** 576

Interesting if it is the same car with L2 UK plates, as far as know that was the first UK delivered Gran Sport Veyrons.

Marcopolo76 · **Posted:** Sun Oct 04, 2009 2:50 pm

few pics of Grand Sport :

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