MaSt3Rs-K|Ll3r Posted September 12, 2018 Posted September 12, 2018 Major Redesigns Occur Every Five Years Or So; Not Much Changes In Between. Dividing Them Into Generations Provides More Meaningful Distinctions In The Shopping Process. If There's Any Doubt About The Bugatti Chiron's Raison d etre, It's Written Right On The Steering Wheel, On Large Blue Button Emblazoned With One Word: Engine. Sure, We Could Wax Poetic About The Marriage Of Modern Technology To The Anicent Human Craving To Express Vanity And Wealth. Or About How The 1500-hp Chiron Is Metaphorically The 700-Room Chateu de Versailles With Tailpipes,How The $3 Million Price Means It Is No Crazier Than Hiring An Artist To Spend Four Years Painting God And Adam And Angles And Saints On Your Chapel Celing. In Other Words, We Could Go On And On About How It Is An Exuberant, Untethered Overstatement In The Service Of Generating Delirious Stupefaction, Both In The Nobles Who Luxuriate In iT aND tHE Peasants Who Revel In Its Reflected Glory. All Ate Up With Motor: But The New 261-mph Bug Is Really Just About Being All Ate Up With Motor. Its About Old-Fashioned Combustion In 16 Furnaces Amidships That Are Blown Into A Furious Conflagration By Quad Turbo Fans. Push That Engine Button And The 8.0-Liter W-16 Lights, Not With The Ear-Bending Bark Of An Italian Supercar - Bugatti Figures It Is Above Those Kinds Of Bad-Boy Theatrics - But With the Manly Burble Of A Lazy 650-Rpm Idle. To Paraphrase Theodore Roosevelt, "Speak Softly And Carry A Suitcase Nuke." To Be Brutally Cynical- For That's The Last Refuge Of Plebeians Who Cannot Now And Never Will Be Able To Afford A Chiron- This Car Is Do Over. Its A Reboot Of a Last- Decade Idea For Reviving A Slumbering Auto Boutique With A Moonshot Engineering Project Intended To Create Shock And Awe. The 1001-Hp Veyron 16.4 Was The Busted Sound Barrier,The Everest Summit, The Four-Minute Mile. It Was The Car That Went 1 MPH Faster Than A Peuegot P88- The Fasted Race Car On The Mulsanne Straight- Just Because. The Benchmakers Have All Been Bested, The Hyperbole All Belaborated.It Seems Pointless To Raise The Bar Again With Another With Another Mid-Engined Two Seat Coupe, Like Enrolling Superman In a Cross Fit Class Class In The Hopes Of Widening The Gap Over Those Speeding Bullets. Viewed More Charitably, The Concept Was Perhaps Not Fully Tapped The Veyron May Have Improved Great During Its 10-Year, 450-Car Slow Drip Of A Production Run, But Its Handling Never Rose Above THat Of A Blindingly Fast Lexus. Unlike A Lexus, It Was Loud Inside,And Not Good Kind Of Loud But A Loud Borne Of Thrumming Tires And Tricking Injectoes And Whirring Accessories And Those Great Sucking Bazookas Behind Your Head. And ITs Slighly Corpulent Styling Was Perhaps A Shade Too Moulin Rouge For Some And Not Enough Yve Montand With A Cocked Cigarette And Piercing Squint. It Was An Awesome Thing The Veyron, But Not Above A Sequel. Shock And Awe Is Highly Pershable, And Engineers Always Need New Challenges. So The Chiron Horizon-Sucking Accelration, While Still Evoking A Sport Bike With Four Wheels, Is Not Quite As Dumbfounding As The Veyron Was In Its Day.At Least Not From Zero To 60.From 60 To, Oh, Say 180MPH, Which Takes About 10 Seconds, The Car Actually Seems To Accelarte Even Harder, Pretty Much Flattering Your Lungs And Causing Both The Pleasure And Fear Centres Of Your Brain To Go Code Red Simultaneously. Almost Certainly The Last Of Its Kind As Supercars Give Way To Super-Hybrids And Super-Electrics.The Chiron Main Selling Point Against Other Objects Arrt From The Likes Of Pagani Or Koenigsegg Is That It Hails From The Volkswagen Group Which Built An Average Of 28,176 Cars Every Day Of Last Year. So This Is Art That Is Likely To Start In 20-Degtree Weather. Just Imagine Michelangelo Or Indeed Ettore Bugatti, Having 3D Computer Modeling, Wind Tunnels, And Hundreds Of Talented Of Talented Artisians At His Disposal. Would The Results have been So Different The Bugatti Chiron Set Its First Record Zero To 249 Mph To Zero In 42 Seconds #Thank You
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