Thursday, August 19, 2010

268-mph Bugatti Veyron Super Sport builds U.S. sales debut

One of the pace cars for the historic car races at the Laguna Seca raceway today will be faster than just concerning anything else on the track.

It's the Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport, which the automaker introduced to Drive On and the rest of the automotive press yesterday close to Carmel, Calif.

Super Sport now set the new land speed record for a production car at 268 miles an hour at Volkswagen Group's proving ground at Ehra-Lessien, Germany.

Coming later this year, you'll require $2.1 million to buy the painted version, $2.4 million to purchase one in which the translucent carbon-fiber body is visible in its rich detail. It arrives afterward this year.

The Super Sport adds another 299 horsepower to the 1,001-hp Bugatti Veyron 16.4 that commenced in 2005. Similar to the previous model, the Super Sport has a twin clutch arrangement and paddle shifter, but no clutch pedal or stick shifting. To obtain the extra horsepower, it adds superior turbochargers and bigger intercoolers to increase the power of the 8-liter 16-cylinder engine.


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