This Mash Up Looks Good

3. Bugatti Chiron/VW Beetle

(CarThrottle.com)

Not Really, Because Someone Just Had To Have It

Paying $10,000 For A Bugatti Chiron Model Engine Seems Rather Silly

Life is full of silly things, a lot of which would be cool if they weren’t so silly. Take this model of a Bugatti Chiron engine: It’d be a great conversation piece on your LED-backlit display wall of rare, expensive automotive memorabilia dusted with diamonds for extra shine, but maybe not for $10,000.

Then again, if a display wall dusted with diamonds is your kind of thing, maybe a starting price of $9,365 for this model isn’t a big deal.
Personal feelings about the worth of material objects serving no purpose other than to look at aside, this 1:4 scale of a Bugatti Chiron engine and gearbox is pretty mesmerizing. The company that makes it and other expensive vehicle replicas, Amalgam Collection, said there are 1,040 individual parts and all of the special finishes Bugatti puts on the actual car’s 1,500-horsepower W16 engine packed into a model that’s only 18 inches long and 9 inches high. 

(Jalopnik.com)

This Is Scary Fast

Watch How Quickly the Bugatti Chiron Accelerates to 217 MPH

(Road&Track.com)

I Would Like To See This Dyno In Action

The Bugatti Chiron Is Tested On The Most Powerful Dyno In The World

In order to test the Chiron’s 1,500 horsepower and 1,180 lb-ft of torque engine, Bugatti installed the most powerful dynamometer in the world. When the Chiron is tested, it produces 1,200 amps of electricity that is fed back into the power grid.

(Jalopnik.com)

Did You Know - Bugatti Chiron

11 amazing details behind the Bugatti Chiron

A Four-Pack of Turbochargers

• One key to the Chiron’s absurd performance stats is its turbocharging system. There are four turbos like on the last car, but they're 69 percent larger than the Veyron’s.

Carbon Fiber Makes It Stiff (And Expensive)

• The Chiron’s carbon-fiber monocoque is extremely rigid for a road car, boasting 50,000 Nm per degree of torsional rigidity. That’s the stiffness of an LMP1 car, or about three times the stiffness of a traditional steel car. An especially cool fact we learned at Bugatti assembly: If you put all the single fibers from the Chiron’s carbon end-to-end, it would stretch nine times the distance from the Earth to the moon. 

Hyper Testing 

• Fun fact: Bugatti has 30 “pre-series” cars that are currently on the road right now. These are the ones that have been spotted testing in various places, and are also used for marketing to show the car to prospective buyers. They’ve logged in excess of 300,000 miles so far, and have gone through 1,000 tires.

Serious Wheels and Tires

• Anscheidt says there’s another reason the fronts are an inch smaller: “by law, the driver needs to be able to see four degrees down. The larger the wheel up front, the higher you sit, which you don’t want as a designer, or for performance.”

Complete list (AutoBlog.com)

Did You Know - Bugatti Chiron Edition

9 Astonishing Facts About The Bugatti Chiron

As with the old Veyron, the Chiron - revealed yesterday at the Geneva motor show - is a technological marvel that brings with it all sorts of bonkers facts, stats and superlatives. Here are a few of our favourites . . . . .

It's as rigid as an LMP1 racing car

• The monocoque of the Chiron is a special bit of kit. It’s made entirely from carbonfibre and on its own takes four weeks to make. It’s 8kg lighter than the Veyron’s monocoque, and is exceptionally rigid. Bugatti says that the Chiron “reaches a torsional rigidity of 50,000 Nm per degree and a flexural rigidity of about 0.25 mm per tonne” - and if you’ve no idea what that means, all you need to know is that it’s apparently comparable to an LMP1 endurance racer in rigidity terms.

It went through hella testing

• During development, Chiron test cars have spent a combined 300 hours in the wind tunnel, clocked over 300,000 miles and munched through 200 sets of tyres. Bugatti says that it had to develop a new test bench for the 8.0-litre engine, as existing test equipment wasn’t able to apply big enough loads for the W16.

Complete list (CarThrottle.com)