1232bhp 272mph Bugatti Veyron GT in the works.

[Driftster]

VAG = really grasping for straws here

 

[Poverty]

VAG would offer to upgrade prior veyrons he if this models replaces the current veyron. But if this is a model to sit ontop the original veyron I doubt it.

 

[YSSMAN]

With the ammount of money it cost just to build the damn Veyron, I doubt there are going to be any VAG-endorced modifications any time soon...

 

[GT4_Rule]

I wonder if they would upgrade your 1001hp Veyron to take it to 1232bhp spec? (for a price obvouisly.)

They should (or more like, have to) do it for free, or it will leave bitterness on Veyron's owners. Its ripping people off, after selling so many models for $1,000,000+ (to speculators probably, waiting for the value to go up and sell it) and they announce, after 5 months, that a faster model is in progress. VAG = very cheap.

 

[Keef]

I realize the Veyron is street legal and pretty reliable, but I'd rather fork out about $300,000 for a Top Fuel dragster and accelerate from 0-60 in about .6 seconds, on a good day. 0-100 n about .8. 0-330+ in ~4.45 seconds. Now that sounds like a trip! And how much downforce can the Veyron make in handling mode? The exhaust gases alone of a Top Fueler at ~8000 rpm make about 800 pounds of downforce. And one single piston of 1 liter can make the same power as an 8 liter, twin-turbo mill. Of course, the Top Fuel motor is prone to explosions, flying debris, dieseling beyond half-track, tremendous fuel costs, and many other unwanted side effects, but when it works perfectly the result is nice. Did I mention ~500 cubic inches (8.1L), 8000-9000 rpm, 5000 lb/ft, and 8000+ hp?
Now I'm not an Appalachian American, I'm just showing how trivial race car to street car comparisons are. A street car will never be able to keep up with Indy cars, F1 cars, and top fuel dragsters, the masters of sustaining high speeds, turning and stopping on a dime, and creating speed, respectively.

 

[ferrari_chris]

... A street car will never be able to keep up with Indy cars, F1 cars, and top fuel dragsters, the masters of sustaining high speeds, turning and stopping on a dime, and creating speed, respectively.

See, I tend to disagree with statements like this.

You say never keep up, but over what distance?

Sure, a top-fuel dragster can accelerate faster than a Veyron, but at 3/4 track most of the time the drag engine is starting to fail. Over a 3 mile distance the Veyron will win because the dragster will have to stop to have an engine rebuild.

And other cars are the same but with greater distances. Sure F1 and Indy cars are faster (of course they are, they're race cars) but they can't hold a candle to the reliability of the Veyron.

It takes more than one person to start an F1 car...

You can drive a Veyron to the shops, you can drive it in traffic. An F1 overheats if sitting in one place for over a minute...

You can't fill an Indycar at the corner service station.

Streetcar vs. racecar is stupid.

 

[Poverty]

^^ Kudos. Well said.

 

[JCE]

Someone should create a Veyron LM car--that'll test it's reliability--which I believe it to have plenty of. If you think about it even if you put the Veyron on a diet by removing it's luxury would it really be that much faster?

 

[Jim Prower]

It'd better produce twice it's (Stripped) weight in Downforce. Or I'm Not touching it.

Unless I tub the rear end and turn it into a dragster.

 

[Dave A]

If it becaome and LM car it'd have the turbo's removed, a big air restrictor in place and the 4wd taken out, you'd be left with a 600-700bhp car that would if they did it right, weigh around 1100kg's and was rwd. It wouldn't qualify for LeMans if it didn't.

 

[JCE]

Can't have AWD in LM cars? Didn't know that...

 

[Dave A]

That's one reason why the Murcuielago R-GT is Rwd not 4wd.