Still 16 cylinders! Bugatti unveiled a new generation of engines

Mondo Cars Updated on 2024-03-04

Eight years after the release of the Charon, the French premium sports car brand Bugatti recently released a teaser video, which revealed that the new generation of Bugatti cars will be equipped with the newly developed V16 engine, but the current information is limited, and the actual performance output and the exact production time are yet to be announced by the original manufacturer.

Bugatti officially announced that the successor to the Chiron will debut in 2024, and is expected to start production in 2026, and it is also the last model that the brand's design director Achim Anscheidt will participate in, and will continue to participate in the Bugatti and Rimac cooperation projects as consultants in the future.

According to overseas**, the successor model of the Bugatti Chiron will use a hybrid system, but given the future cooperation between Bugatti and Rimac, perhaps the trend of electrification will lead the brand to continue to push the boundaries of new performance levels. Bugatti's first all-electric vehicle is also expected to be launched in 2030.

In 2005, the production version of the Bugatti Veyron EB 164 Officially introduced, its name 164 for engine 7,993 cc.The twin camshaft W16 engine has 64 valves, four turbochargers, 10 cooling systems, and a seven-speed dual-clutch manual transmission developed and manufactured by Ricardo to deliver power to all four wheels. It is equipped with carbon-ceramic brakes and has an active wing-like rear wing at the rear, which can be used as an air brake or provide high-speed stability. The top speed can reach 407 kilometers per hour, and 0-100 kilometers can be achieved in just 2In 5 seconds, a 100-litre tank can be depleted in 12 minutes at top speed. At the same time, the engine draws in 45,000 litres of air per minute, enough for one person to breathe for 4 days! Veyron's R&D program cost a staggering $1.6 billion, while the production version sold for $1.2 million in 2005 and a total of 450 units were produced. In 2015, after 10 years of series production, the 450th Veyron La Finale was delivered to the owner, ending the saga and introducing the successor to the Chiron at the 2016 Geneva Motor Show.

Bugatti has a history of more than 110 years since its inception in 1919, as the leading super luxury sports car brand in the market, it was bought by the Spanish car manufacturer Hispano-Suiza after the bankruptcy of World War II, and fell into the hands of Italian businessman Romano Artioli in 1987, but due to poor management, the EB 110 went bankrupt in 1995**, and then became one of the many brands of the Volkswagen Group in 1998. Since then, it has been promoted to the crystallization of thousand-horsepower technology that fans talk about;

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