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[welshie]

Here is the first photo of the special edition Bugatti Bleu Veyron Centenaire, the 100th anniversary car rumored to have a max-speed of 273 MPH ahead of the official Geneva Motor Show debut tomorrow.

All we have is this photo, so we've got no way to prove this vehicle actually goes from standing still all the way up to 273 MPH. What we do know is there's definitely a special edition Bugatti and it carries the company's famous racing blue color. The most stunning aspect of the car is the two-tone gloss vs. matte paint. It's striking in its solid paint job, with an unknown amount of power lurking behind those ropes.
http://jalopnik.com/tag/bugatti-bleu-veyron-centenaire/?id=5163095



So is the Veyron about to retake it's crown as the worlds fastest production car?!! I for one sure hope so!!

[Rivelution]

The picture isnt loading for me on that website, but I'll look for it somewhere else.


That would be amazing if it reached 273, but it would probably cost like a baillion dollars though.

[welshie]

Just in case the first pic doesn't load!

[scotty]

It'll still be relatively slow around an actual track though won't it! And it still looks the same - fugly....

[Jabberwocky]

it is indeed too heavy to corner as well as something like a Caterham

[welshie]

It'll still be relatively slow around an actual track though won't it! And it still looks the same - fugly....

Actually it will be relatively bloody fast around a track! There is only a hand-full of other production cars that would be/are faster. But then the veyron is hardly a stripped out track racer is it!

[7UpJordan]

it is indeed too heavy to corner as well as something like a Caterham

I always believed that was the reason why the Veyron never made it to the top of the Top Gear power lap board. But if the test track was something like, say an oval or something without tight corners the Veyron would have just eaten everything.

[scotty]

It'll still be relatively slow around an actual track though won't it! And it still looks the same - fugly....

Actually it will be relatively bloody fast around a track! There is only a hand-full of other production cars that would be/are faster. But then the veyron is hardly a stripped out track racer is it!

Just look at how much power it has and the complex gearbox and TC systems it has though, not to mention the size of the tyres! Even if you 'stripped out' a Veyron, it'd still weight a silly amount, it's those two gearboxes and the huge engine that make it heavy (and, somewhat ironcially, they're also what make it so fast!)! I'm merely saying it is slow relative to what it should be able to do around a track.

it is indeed too heavy to corner as well as something like a Caterham

I always believed that was the reason why the Veyron never made it to the top of the Top Gear power lap board. But if the test track was something like, say an oval or something without tight corners the Veyron would have just eaten everything.

I thought it was quite odd really, you'd have thought the Veyron was suited to slow coners with the amount of traction it has... i reckon it's just to aerodynamically biased towards going quick in a straight line to ever be fast around corners, especially long, quick ones.

[welshie]

It does have incredible cornering. Take the top gear test track, a short track filled with tight slow corners. The fastest time is that of the Gumpert Apollo at 1:17.1. The lap time of the Veyron is 1:18.3 . . . . . 1.2s slower. However the Gumpert is 930kg lighter than the Veyron, making the Gumpert close to half the cerb weight! But then the Gumpert is a race car with numberplates, so it should be fast.

A quote from Gordon Murray, designer of the McLaren F1 Supercar

One really good thing, and I simply never expected this, is that it does change direction. It hardly feels its weight. Driving it on a circuit I expected a sack of cement, but you can really throw it at the tight chicanes.

[Rivelution]

It does have incredible cornering. Take the top gear test track, a short track filled with tight slow corners. The fastest time is that of the Gumpert Apollo at 1:17.1. The lap time of the Veyron is 1:18.3 . . . . . 1.2s slower. However the Gumpert is 930kg lighter than the Veyron, making the Gumpert close to half the cerb weight! But then the Gumpert is a race car with numberplates, so it should be fast.

A quote from Gordon Murray, designer of the McLaren F1 Supercar

One really good thing, and I simply never expected this, is that it does change direction. It hardly feels its weight. Driving it on a circuit I expected a sack of cement, but you can really throw it at the tight chicanes.

I saw that yesterday and I was really impressed. I thought it wouldnt even break the 20s, but it looked awkward going around the corners though.

[texasmr2]

The concept of the Veyron seem's to have been lost by the members here.

[Gaz]

It does have incredible cornering. Take the top gear test track, a short track filled with tight slow corners. The fastest time is that of the Gumpert Apollo at 1:17.1. The lap time of the Veyron is 1:18.3 . . . . . 1.2s slower. However the Gumpert is 930kg lighter than the Veyron, making the Gumpert close to half the cerb weight! But then the Gumpert is a race car with numberplates, so it should be fast.

A quote from Gordon Murray, designer of the McLaren F1 Supercar

One really good thing, and I simply never expected this, is that it does change direction. It hardly feels its weight. Driving it on a circuit I expected a sack of cement, but you can really throw it at the tight chicanes.

I saw that yesterday and I was really impressed. I thought it wouldnt even break the 20s, but it looked awkward going around the corners though.

Yeh i was abit dissapointed tho that it didn't top the times.

great feat of engineering.

[Rivelution]

Yeh i was abit dissapointed tho that it didn't top the times.

great feat of engineering.

I didnt expect it to top the times to be honest. I mean the thing weighs more than most pick up trucks, and its more of a cruiser than a track car.

Its still an amazing car though, and that air brake looks cool.

[Gaz]

Yeh i was abit dissapointed tho that it didn't top the times.

great feat of engineering.

I didnt expect it to top the times to be honest. I mean the thing weighs more than most pick up trucks, and its more of a cruiser than a track car.

Its still an amazing car though, and that air brake looks cool.

Yeh it was fun seeing it race he eurofighter and the car vs light aircraft when JC in the Veyron raised May and Hammond in a plane

[madbrad]

The concept of the Veyron seem's to have been lost by the members here.

They can't see the forest for the trees.


BTW it's nice to see a limited edtion Veyron after putting up with the mass produced version