2024 Author: Erin Ralphs | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-19 11:42
The well-known French car manufacturer has long been famous for creating expensive luxury cars. From the founding of Ettore Bugatti at the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day, production has experienced many ups and downs. These days, it's a prosperous car company nestled comfortably under the wing of the all-powerful Volkswagen Group. The founder, known as a man of art, put all his talent into his brainchildren, turning each model into a masterpiece in terms of design and technical excellence. Despite the death of the great designer in 1947 and the almost complete collapse of the company some time later, Ettore's business is now alive, with the efforts of Volkswagen offering the world all new works of automotive art. One of these, namely the Bugatti Vision, will be discussed in this article.
A bit of history
The future founder and owner of the company was born inItaly. From childhood he was accustomed to the fine arts. Grandfather is an architect and sculptor, father is a jeweler and artist. The son was destined to connect his life with art. However, from the age of 16 he went to work in an automobile company that creates racing cars. An engineer "from God", he never received a technical education. In 1909 he founded his own company in France. Passion for racing determined the nature of the development of his automobile production. The art, imbibed with mother's milk, has affected the elegant design of a huge number of models released by the company. And of course, the Bugatti Vision is no exception.
Concept car
However, in order to understand the appearance of this unusual model from the point of view of the automotive industry, one should slightly deviate to the side and highlight the topic of computer games a little. The well-known virtual racing simulator Gran Turismo 6 has caused the desire of the largest manufacturers to create their own versions of supercars. And not only in digital form, but also in real hardware, and, more precisely, in the materials used to manufacture modern racing cars. Thus, the Bugatti Vision is a development of the company not only in 3D, but also in the form of a real concept car, which was successfully presented to the public in 2015.
Design
The Bugatti design team spent about six months creating a truly unique look for this prototype. The inspiration for the implementation of the virtual model turned out to be a car that inscribed its name in the history of the most famous dailyracing for survival "Le Mans". Indeed, the Bugatti Vision is somewhat reminiscent of the immortal winner of the 24-hour 57G Tank test, which took this previously unsurpassed height for the company in 1937.
The blue and black coloring of the concept car again refers us to the Le Mans winning model. Bugatti Vision Gran Turismo is also something like a tank: brutal, daring, shocking. These are the only words that come to mind when trying to describe this fantastic car. According to the head of the company's design division, the appearance of their cars has reached a new stage of evolution, offering the racer of the future incredible power under the hood of the Bugatti Vision.
Features
Since you will not find data on the actual characteristics in official sources even during the day with fire, conjectures and assumptions about the real indicators of this monster are walking with might and main on the net. The most realistic is the message that a 16-cylinder gasoline engine with a capacity of one and a half thousand "horses" is installed under the hood, as well as the presence of all-wheel drive. Which made it possible to assume the ability to accelerate to 400 km / h. But, for the most part, this is speculation. Sources in the company say that the concept is a transitional stage from the sensational Veyron model, which, as you know, was discontinued in 2015, to the already approaching future of the company. And a few more words about him.
Future
The company sees it very brightly, presenting the car to the world with a proudthe name "Chiron". The origin of the names of the latest models of the stable is interesting. So, Pierre Veyron, as you know, is a French racer and engineer who worked for Bugatti. He won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1939 with a company car. And Louis Chiron is the most famous racer from Monaco, one of the most famous pilots of the pre-war period. By the way, his name was also used in the name of the company's model, released in 1999.
Let's get back to the Bugatti Vision. The speed of 400 km / h, which was announced at the release of the concept car, obviously did not turn out to be a “duck”, as well as the power characteristics. Indeed, the Chiron, into which this brainchild of the company has resulted, has one and a half thousand “horses” declared for the concept, accelerated by a six-liter W16. Moreover, a newcomer to the company's stable, according to technical data, can accelerate up to 420 km/h!
Concluding this short review, it should be noted that the photos of the Bugatti Vision taken in 2015 are in many ways reminiscent of the Chiron, which, although it looks much lighter and faster, clearly took a lot from its conceptual predecessor.
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