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World’s most powerful Bugatti Veyron

01 August 2007


World’s most powerful Bugatti Veyron - News image
by Adrian Hearn


What do you do when you’re not happy with your 1,001bhp, 253mph Bugatti Veyron? Add more oomph.

A super-rich businessman – thought to be a Russian oligarch – has had his bespoke Bugatti’s power boosted to a reported 1,200bhp.

These high quality pictures appeared on BMW forum E46 fanatics and show the burgundy over cream car parked outside a Dubai shopping mall.

But when a car is this powerful, adding the equivalent of a Volkswagen Golf GTi under the hood won’t increase performance that much.

We reckon the vamped-up Veyron will hit 60mph in about 2.3 seconds and have a top speed of 260mph – compared to 2.5 seconds and 253mph.

Modified by Spanish coachbuilders Pegaso, the Veyron has a slightly altered interior and bears the registration plate C1.

Other alleged vehicles in the owner’s multi-million pound stable include a 207mph McLaren Mercedes SLR, 214mph Pagani Zonda, 196mph Ferrari F430, 205mph Lamborghini Murcielago and Hummer H2.

The lucky owner is also the only person to live permanently in the world’s only seven-star hotel - Dubai’s achingly amazing Burj al Arab where rooms typically cost £2,000 per night.
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http://forum.e46fanatics.com/showthread.php?p=6373429
 
I doubt the top speed will increase unless they've messed around with certain onboard computer settings. If it has been increased and the owner has any intention of taking it to thoes speeds than he's an idiot. The tyre's arn't satisfactoraly tested at 255mph et alone over 255mph. He could have sudden tyre failure fesulting in a blowout, and at 255+mph you don't want that to happen. Lovely colour scheme though, I don't really see the point in the extra power. Beside tat, the standard Veyron has around 1200bhp anyway in the right weather conditions. The extra power won't make much of a difference to the performance at all.
 
Yep - I read the car is electronically limited to ~253mph anyway. But yes, with the tyres built specifically to be cabable of doing the standard car's top speed it would be dangerous to go beyond that. I wonder how the transmission would cope too.
 
The most powerful Veyron ever? Isn't the Veyron considered the most powerful supercar to begin with?
Sounds like a double entendre or something.
 
Nope. If I even HAD the money to buy one I'd probably rarely even drive it. Reason? The way people drive around here someone would probably hit me and total the car. So why would I even want or need more power? I mean it already HAS 1000bhp, why the **** would anyone want MORE?
 
M5Power
Nah - Ralph's is still better.
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Yeah, Ralph's is better. In fact, seeing Ralph in it and speaking to him is twice as good. I bet the owner of that Pagaso is not very friendly.
 
JCE3000GT
Nope. If I even HAD the money to buy one I'd probably rarely even drive it. Reason? The way people drive around here someone would probably hit me and total the car. So why would I even want or need more power? I mean it already HAS 1000bhp, why the **** would anyone want MORE?
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Dont get me wrong, I would never do such a thing. But I wish I had the money to. I would waste it on much more practical uses.
 
It needs 200 more horsepower...errr 199 more horsepower to go 7 more mph faster? Maybe I just suck at physics but I don't understand why it would need more horsepower to go faster, couldn't you just screw with the gears a bit?

Meh whatever, the car is way over the top and ridiculous...plus it looks like a cockroach.
 
There's a rate of diminishing return there... it's not power-to-weight that really matters at those speeds, but power-to-drag. And the drag at those speeds is tremendous.
 
Joey D
It needs 200 more horsepower...errr 199 more horsepower to go 7 more mph faster? Maybe I just suck at physics but I don't understand why it would need more horsepower to go faster, couldn't you just screw with the gears a bit?

Meh whatever, the car is way over the top and ridiculous...plus it looks like a cockroach.
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niky has squarely impacted the alloyed penetrative binding tool on the uppermost perpendicular extremity...

niky
There's a rate of diminishing return there... it's not power-to-weight that really matters at those speeds, but power-to-drag. And the drag at those speeds is tremendous.
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Let's assume that the 253mph limiter has been removed (along with the 230mph limiter that kicks in if you back off the throttle even slightly while in top speed configuration)...

At 253mph the drag on a Bugatti Veyron is roughly (and I stress roughly) 1,352lb (613.5kg) - that's more than half a ton of air it's fighting through. To do that, it requires about 912hp.

(for those interested, the figures are):
Rolling resistance = 56lb = Weight (4,160lb) * 0.0135
Air resistance @ 253mph = 1296lb = Drag coefficient (0.355) * Frontal area (22.28 square feet) * Speed (253mph) * Speed (253mph) * 0.00256
Total resistance @ 253mph = 1,352lb = Rolling resistance + air resistance.
Power required @ 253mph = 912hp = Total resistance (1,352lb) * Speed (253mph)/375


Rather than working the numbers through again to calculate the new top speed, we can instead note that there's three multiplications of speed for every power - or that for every increase in speed, we need a CUBE increase in power... To increase speed 50% we'd need 3.4 times the power (1.05 * 1.05 * 1.05 = 3.375)...

So, if we shovelled 1,200hp at it (31.5% more power), we'd get 9.6% more speed - 277mph. An increase of only 24mph over the standard car for a near-300hp increase.
 
I like the colour combination. I'm not so sure about the extra power, but then if you have the cash and what to play the my car has more power than yours game why not.....
 
Sting
How pointless.
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These people work on a "more = better" principle, and that "the one who dies with the most toys wins". They live life in a Top Trumps manner, and a 1200bhp Veyron trumps a 1000bhp Veyron.

You may think it's pointless, but you don't live in their world.
 
Dead_Poetic
Come on. You both know that you wish you had the money to do such an impractical thing.
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Wish I had the money yes, but I'd like to think I'd use it wiser than spending a crap load of it on modifying the fastest roadcar just to gain a few mph, that won't even get used due to A) the car being limited and B) the tyres probably not handling it.

... but then I'd make the smart decision in the first place and not buy the butt-ugly Veyron as it is...

I'd try get my hands on a Maserati MC12 Corse :sly:
 
GilesGuthrie
Because we all know that the MC12 is the living embodiment of beauty, rather than a fat barge. :yuck:
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Well when I stated that I was looking at my GTR2 box. :nervous:
and I do much prefer its looks over the Veyron.

In all seriousness, I'd probably just buy my favourite car... the Viper.
 
Well, more power would help it up hills. It would help it get to 252 faster. It could take a couple tenths off laptimes...

But, then again, so would lightening, sticking huge wings and diffusers on it, and otherwise turning it into a Group C racer.
 
Sting
Well when I stated that I was looking at my GTR2 box. :nervous:
and I do much prefer its looks over the Veyron.

In all seriousness, I'd probably just buy my favourite car... the Viper.
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Well that reminds me,isn't the Hernessey Viper could hit 240+mph?It only has 1000hp.If you swap for a bigger turbo,then maybe get around 1400-1600hp and the car could hit 270-280mph and could even fly!Well the car looks awesome but i don't think it could trump Ralph Lauren's Veyron.His car looks cooler and that he was the first person to get the Veyron,that is special in itself.(his car color choice looks much cooler as well 👍 Black on black :drool: )
 
GilesGuthrie
These people work on a "more = better" principle, and that "the one who dies with the most toys wins". They live life in a Top Trumps manner, and a 1200bhp Veyron trumps a 1000bhp Veyron.

You may think it's pointless, but you don't live in their world.
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I think its pointless to add more power to a car thats purposely built for something--which is 1000bhp and 400km/h.

The only real reason I'd like to see 1200bhp in the Veyron is if they stripped all the excess weight and made a Touring car out of it.
 
mnm_bmx
Well that reminds me,isn't the Hernessey Viper could hit 240+mph?It only has 1000hp.If you swap for a bigger turbo,then maybe get around 1400-1600hp and the car could hit 270-280mph
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Well... once at least.
 
mnm_bmx
Well that reminds me,isn't the Hernessey Viper could hit 240+mph?It only has 1000hp.If you swap for a bigger turbo,then maybe get around 1400-1600hp and the car could hit 270-280mph and could even fly!
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A flying Viper would not be somthing to rave about. Unless you hated the Viper. No but seriousely, like Famine said, you may get one top speed run out of a 1600bhp Viper before you need to rebuild the engine.

Adding power to a car isn't as simple as "i'll put this turbo on because it's bigger". The more power your engine has, the more stress the engine is under, the less reliable the engine becomes. The Veyron trumps a 1000bhp Viper in more ways than speed.
 

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