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  1. The Bugatti Lounge
    With Lamborghini’s CEO leaving to take over chief executiveship at Formula 1, Lamborghini needs a new CEO. Or rather an old one. Bugatti’s CEO, Stefan Winkelmann will return to a leadership role at the Italian supercar manufacturer.  As of December 1, Winkelmann will take over from Stefano...
  2. The Bugatti Lounge
    “Driving the Bolide is like riding a cannonball,” says Bugatti. And with a top speed of more than 311 mph, that seems like a fair comparison. That speed is achieved thanks to Bugatti’s familiar 8.0-liter W16 engine, which has been tuned to its highest power level yet. Making 1,850 metric...
  3. The Bugatti Lounge
    Along with an image of the engine, wheels, and seats, Bugatti has announced that it intends to unveil its latest special vehicle on October 28, 2020. Seen testing at France’s Paul Ricard circuit, the car appears to be a racy, likely track-only hypercar. Today’s image reveals for certain that it...
  4. The Bugatti Lounge
    Volkswagen may be looking to get rid of its supercar brands, according to a report from Reuters. The automaker is looking to double its value, free up cash, and focus on electrification.  “We are constantly looking at our brand portfolio, this is particularly true during the phase of...
  5. The Bugatti Lounge
    Unconfirmed reports from the UK suggest that Volkswagen could be parting ways with Bugatti. The company would, the Car Magazine report suggests , go to Rimac Automobili. The report is based on unnamed sources but would be made in an effort to earn Porsche a bigger slice of the Rimac pie...
  6. The Bugatti Lounge
    After its record-setting 0-249-0 mph run, Bugatti revealed that it had filmed the run using another Chiron driven by F1 ace, Juan-Pablo Montoya. But the Chiron isn’t really a camera car. Having seen a Russian arm once or twice, we can confirm that the Chiron, though many things, is not what...
  7. Volkswagen News Blog
    It doesn’t take much to get all four wheels off the ground when you’re driving at 300 mph, as Chiron record-setter Andy Wallace found out. In an interview with Australia's Which Car , the Le Mans winner explained that even just a change in road surface at Volkswagen’s Ehra-Lessing test track...
  8. Volkswagen News Blog
    Bugatti claims it is the first supercar manufacturer to hit 300 mph. The French supercar-maker has taken a modified Chiron to 304.7 mph at VW’s Ehra-Lessien test track. The speed was achieved on Ehra-Lessien’s 8.8 km (5.4 mile) straight in a long-tail version of the Chiron on specially...
  9. Volkswagen News Blog
    The next super-limited Bugatti will be called the Centodieci. The name, Italian for 110, is a reference to the ‘90s’ Bugatti EB110. Carscoops, which first published the photos, reports that it received the apparently official photos from a reader who found them online. Like the Voiture Noire...
  10. Volkswagen News Blog
    If you weren't able to get your hands on the one-off Bugatti Chiron La Voiture Noire, then we've got good news. And a heck of a bargain! See, now that Bugatti has shown that it can add a zero to the price of its cars, other boutique coachbuilders are trying the same thing. So enter another...
  11. Volkswagen News Blog
    It’s usually hard to feel bad for someone in a Bugatti. Clearly, you’re doing fine. It’s even harder to feel bad for someone who was in a fender bender in their Veyron. And yet, somehow, Tracy Morgan’s recent accident does have us wincing in sympathy. The former SNL and 30 Rock star must have...
  12. Volkswagen News Blog
    The prospect of a second Bugatti model has long been talked and while we’re no closer to an actual answer about what it will actually look like, the company’s CEO, Stephan Winkelmann, has at least dropped some interesting tidbits. Talking to Motor1 , Winkelmann revealed that the car won’t look...
  13. Volkswagen News Blog
    Thought you were the coolest kid in school when you put those Bentley Continental wheels on your MK IV? Not any more. Whoever snags this set of hoops will have the ultimate bragging rights in the hard parking lot. It's a set of wheels you might not ever see show up for sale again. Bugatti...
  14. Volkswagen News Blog
    Bugatti is celebrating it 110th anniversary this year, so naturally, it has some big plans for 2019. Those plans will include the presentation of new models, Bugatti president Stephen Winkelmann confirmed in the automaker's recent 2019 year in review letter, which is hardly surprising. What is...
  15. Volkswagen News Blog
    For all the fidelity of the LEGO Bugatti Chiron, it fails in one important aspect. It isn’t actually an automobile since it isn’t able to make itself move. But Donut Media is here to fix that. In this video, they attempt to make the 1/8th scale LEGO Chiron go 36.2 mph (which is 1/8th of 261...
  16. Volkswagen News Blog
    Bugatti recently boasted that it had manufactured the world's first 3D printed brake caliper. The 3D caliper is made of titanium and is 40 percent lighter than the Chiron's standard caliper, which tips the scales at around 11 lbs. The new caliper, by comparison, weighs 6.4 lbs. Bugatti...
  17. Volkswagen News Blog
    What? Is 261 mph not fast enough for you? Do you really need Bugatti to go faster to prove you should buy a Chiron? Well, too bad, because top speed records are soooooo 2013 and Bugatti CEO, Stephan Winkelmann, is interested in new and better stuff that you probably wouldn't even get. Speaking...
  18. Volkswagen News Blog
    Chiron, meet Chiron. No, it's not the latest buddy-cop show. Bugatti and Lego have put the brick Chiron and the carbon Chiron together in a new exhibition. The display, at the Zeithaus, one of the world's leading car museums and part of Volkswagen's Autostadt delivery center concept located in...
  19. Volkswagen News Blog
    What goes better with expensive super-luxury cars than other super-luxury goods? Nothing. Which is why Bugatti and Champagne Carbon have combined to bottle a special Bugatti bubbly. And they're both local companies, both coming from France's Grand Est region. "We are thrilled to have the chance...
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