In his recent reporting on the Bugatti Chiron, which could pack 1500 horsepower, hit 288 mph, and have swing-up doors, Automobile Magazine’s Georg Kacher stated that the Veyron successor has been delayed until 2016, and with the Veyron’s 450-car run just about finished, a very limited run of speedsters based on the model could be built to “keep the workforce busy.” That is, of course, to say nothing of funneling millions upon millions of bucks into Bugatti’s coffers.
The report provided no hint of what sort of modifications would be made to the car to turn it into a speedster. How much might the windshield be chopped for Speedster duty? Would it have an occasional-use roof panel? Would it use the Veyron name? Will Bugatti replace all the hair lost when owners inevitably perform top-speed runs? Nor did the report give an estimate of how many millions of dollars such a thing would cost.
Predictably, when we inquired, Bugatti was mum on the topic, with spokeswoman Manuela Hoehne stating, “These are speculations we do not comment on, as we, in general, do not participate in speculation about future products.” So we’ll just have to take Kacher’s word for it.
We sure hope he’s right, as the idea of a Veyron speedster sounds like the stuff of legends—although Bugatti already has cars based on those—and perhaps the most desirable and collectible of all the variants.
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