Ten Years of the Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport Vitesse ? The World?s Fastest Roadster
Bugatti unveiled the Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport Vitesse. Soon after, the roadster broke the speed record for open-top vehicles ? and holds it to this day.
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1,200 PS in a roadster ? with the introduction of the Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport Vitesse in 2012 ?  Bugatti set new standards of power and performance from a roadster. A year later, the extraordinary hyper sports car cemented its unique status in the automotive world by hitting a top speed of 408.84 km/h ? establishing itself as the world?s most powerful and fastest production roadster ? a record for open-top vehicles that still stands today.
President of Bugatti Automobiles Christophe Piochon remembers how, after the Veyron 16.4 Super Sport coupé introduced the world to the 1,200 PS W16 engine, customers expressed their desire for an open-top version which boasted the same inconceivably high power output. The engineers spent the subsequent months developing the Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport Vitesse.
The greatest challenge when it came to the new roadster was achieving sufficient driving stability and redefining the rollover protection and the removable roof of the predecessor Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport. The Veyron?s very specific structural design needed to be further reinforced. To achieve this, a removable roof module made from lightweight polycarbonate was created, which...
The post Ten Years of the Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport Vitesse ? The World?s Fastest Roadster appeared first on LUXUO.
Image: Bugatti
1,200 PS in a roadster ? with the introduction of the Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport Vitesse in 2012 ?  Bugatti set new standards of power and performance from a roadster. A year later, the extraordinary hyper sports car cemented its unique status in the automotive world by hitting a top speed of 408.84 km/h ? establishing itself as the world?s most powerful and fastest production roadster ? a record for open-top vehicles that still stands today.
President of Bugatti Automobiles Christophe Piochon remembers how, after the Veyron 16.4 Super Sport coupé introduced the world to the 1,200 PS W16 engine, customers expressed their desire for an open-top version which boasted the same inconceivably high power output. The engineers spent the subsequent months developing the Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport Vitesse.
The greatest challenge when it came to the new roadster was achieving sufficient driving stability and redefining the rollover protection and the removable roof of the predecessor Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport. The Veyron?s very specific structural design needed to be further reinforced. To achieve this, a removable roof module made from lightweight polycarbonate was created, which...
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