2025, almost nine years and 500 units in the market after the year we say goodbye to Bugatti Chiron. The hole is now occupied by Bugatti Tourbillon and the magnificent hybrid V16 engine. But none of them will not exist without Bugatti Veyron and above all without Ferdinand Piëch.
With the change of Millennium, automobile engineering was on the verge of a transformation age, but very few could foresee what extent a visionary ambition would redefine the performance limits.
In that case, Ferdinand Karl Piëch was the president of the Volkswagen Group And the driving force of one of the bravest car projects in history: Bugatti Veyron 16.4.
Piëch had a clear goal: Create a road trolley that breaks all contracts and overcome all automobile design and engineering limitations..
Ferdinand Piëch, a visionary
Born in Vienna on April 17, 1937, Ferdinand Karl Piëch felt fascinated by technology from an early age, a passion to define his whole life. He studied mechanical engineering at Zurich before he started his career at Porsche, The place where the legendary Porsche 917, which won the 24 -hour Le Mans, plays a basic role in the creation of.
Engineering information later transformed the Audi brand, Introducing innovations such as five cylinder motors, tdi technology and quattro total traction system.
In 1993, Piëch as the CEO of Volkswagen AG was already one of the most influential figures in the automobile world. However, the growth of his legacy would go further. In 1997, On the express train between Tokyo and Nagoya, Shinkansen summarized an idea that would change the car world in contrast to a Piëch envelope..
In the conversation Karl-heinz neumannThen the development chef of Volkswagen drive systems, 18 -Cyinder summarized the engine. Strong, revolutionary and different from all of the above. This concept was the birth of both Bugatti Veyron and Chiron’s famous W16.
In the search of the brand that realizes your opinion
Piëch dreamed of a car that could develop 1,000 HP and exceed 400 km/h, and maintained a great luxury tourism improvement and ease of use. It was an idea that no existing vehicle architecture could withstand and this required a completely new engineering approach.
At that time, he was looking for a brand that could realize the idea of Piëch. At first he leaned over Bentley and Rolls-Royce, but fate intervened during the sacred week holiday in 1997. His son Gregor, when he insists on buying the Bugatti Type 57 SC Atlantic model.
Inspired by his passion for the legendary French brand, Piëch decided that Bugatti, a synonymous name of performance and luxury, is an excellent choice.. On May 5, 1998, Volkswagen took the rights of the Molsheim manufacturer and took the first steps to perform the W16 engine.
Four prototypes to Bugatti Veyron
With the insured brand, Piëch assigned a friend of the famous designer. Giorgetto Giugio Italdesign is to develop a prototype that honors its vision by loyalty. Conclusion Bugatti EB 118A two -closed coupé that pays tribute to its 18 -class engine.
The concept was presented at the Paris Motor Show in September 1998 just a few months after Volkswagen AG acquired the brand. Months later, in March 1999, the second 18 -cylinder study was presented at the Geneva Motor Fair: Luxury Berlin EB 218.
In September of the same year, Bugatti presented the third prototype: EB 18/3 ChironFrankfurt is in IAA. The reorganization of the numbers in the appointment of the model was made for brand reasons since the number 318 is already protected by another producer.
In October 1999 EB 18/4 VEYRONPrototype that will withstand the future production model. Unlike the previous one, the design was not Giugio’s job, but the job of the young Czech designer Jozef rudeSenior Hartmut Warkuß.
1.001 hp car with ease of use of a large luxury tourism
In 2000, Ferdinand K. Piëch announced that Bugatti would build a production car with 1.001 HP, which can exceed 400 km/h.
However, the real difficulty was not only technical performance, but also to fulfill Piëch’s final ambition: Create a car to reach 400 km/h in the morning and at the same time, create a car that is suitable for an elegant car walk with his wife at night with his wife..
The target was clear: Bugatti had to present Extraordinary, insurmountable, last. Each vehicle should be alone, unique and unique. “Only this Bugatti,” he once wrote.
In 2005, Ferdinand Piëch’s idea was finally made. Bugatti Veyron presented the world 16.4 and created new performance, speed and luxury standards.
With one Maximum 407 km/h speed and an acceleration Between 0 and 100 km/h in 2.5 secondsHe stressed the world’s fastest production tool and Bugatti’s commitment to technological perfection.
But beyond the numbers, Veyron was more than a technical wonder: It was the incarnation of constant research for Piëch’s perfection. Apparently, the determination to obtain the impossible, shaped the panorama of the hyper tanks and put the foundations of all Bugatti’s masterpieces.
After 20 years, Veyron’s legacy remains asphaltedThis was a revolution, a statement of what happened when Hyperdeportivo’s origin and engineering genius joined an uncompromising vision.
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