Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport Review

The fastest production car in the world - Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport is a successor of Bugatti Veyron 16.4, but a sportier car with the experience of a more extreme driving.

Launched in August 2010, the Super Sport version is best known for having overtaken the American fastest supercar SSC Ultimate Aero with the top speed of 257 mph and breaking the record of the fastest production car in the world that reached the average top speed of 267 mph.

The Super Sport is so exceptional not only of its every single detail and the application of advanced technology of motorsport but of its close connection with the founder of the company Ettore Bugatti, who always sought to achieve the combination of the beauty of the exterior with mechanical perfection of the car. As a result, every alteration made to this concept car, such as the expansion and reshaping of the front air intakes, the double diffuser and exhaust system that is arranged centrally, the use of two NACA ducts set that gives the air to the engine, serves to reach its greater performance.

To raise Veyrons SS's top speed by 14 mpg (23 km/h) was not a matter of making of few simple modifications to the standard Veyron 16.4 super-car for Bugatti. The following list of improvements has turned Veyron into the fastest road-legal super sports car:

• The turbochargers and intercoolers have become bigger.
• The cars fuel pump number has increased from two to four.
• A new seven-speed dual-clutch gearbox which shifts a gear in less than 150 milliseconds has been developed.
• A new exhaust system witch is less restrictive has been developed.
• Air scoops have been replaced by air ducts to have more cool air to the quad-turbocharged W16 engine.
• The roof has become longer for better aerodynamics.

To increase the power of the engine, bigger inter-coolers and four enlarged turbochargers have been applied in this version. As a result, Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport has become a unique supercar because of its W16 quad-turbo engine demonstrating the performance of 882 kW (1.200 bhp) and 1.500 Newton metres of torque, which actually offers new dimensions and a new experience of driving to its drivers. In order to protect the tires, all production models have been electronically limited to 257.9 mph. The car reaches a speed of 60 mph in only 2.5 seconds.

What concerns the chassis of the car, it has been redesigned in the way to increase the safety at the extreme driving. The car has an intelligent four-wheel drive system which offers a perfect handling. The Super Sport demonstrates a complex architecture which has been originally created for racing cars. To better the efficiency of aerodynamics and to ensure perfect balance in different driving situations, the body of the vehicle has been fine-tuned and a new fibre structure of the all-carbon monocoque has been used.

Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport has been introduced in four different editions, namely, Dark Blue Tinted Carbon, Dark Blue Tinted Carbon/White Silver, White Silver and World Record Edition. 

The first five Veyron Super Sport cars have been painted with a black and orange "world record" color pattern to introduce a new Guinness record of a top land-speed for a production car.

Specifcations of the Super Sport edition.

This supercar by Bugatti, with its powerfull 1,200 hp engine, reaches 60 mph speed in only 2.5 seconds. The top speed of the Super Sport's is 268 mph, but it has been electronically limited to 258 mph in order to protect the expensive tires.

The base prise for the Super Sport version is $2.3 million.

Officially presented at Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, California in August 2010
Base price:$2,700,000

8.0 litre Quad-turbocharged W16 gasoline engine specifications Arrangement:W-engine
Number of cylinders:16
Valves per cylinder:4
Total displacement:7,993 cc (487.8 cu in)
Compression ratio:9:1
Rated output:1,200 hp (882 kW) at 6,400 rpm
Rated torque:1,500 Nm at 3,000–5,000 rpm
Drivetrain Drive type:All-wheel drive
Clucth:Automatic
Transmission:Dual Clucth automatic 7 Gear DSG (direct-shift gearbox)
Shift time:150 milliseconds
Performance Top speed (limited):258 mph (415 km/h)
Real top speed:267.856 mph (431.072 km/h)
Acceleration:   0-62 mph:2.5 sec
  0–100 km/h:2.5 sec
  0-124 mph:6.7 sec
  0–200 km/h:6.7 sec
  0–186 mph:14.6 sec
  0–300 km/h:14.6 sec
Fuel Consumption Fuel type:Super lead free 98 RON/ROZ
Fuel tank capacity:26.4 G (22 Imp. G, 100 l)
Urban fuel consumption:6.32 US MPG (7.59 Imp. MPG, 37.2 l/100 km)
Urban CO2 emission:867 g/km
Extra-urban fuel consumption:15.79 US MPG (18.96 Imp. MPG, 14.9 l/100 km)
Extra-urban CO2 emission:867 g/km
Combined fuel consumption:10.18 US MPG (12.23 Imp. MPG, 23.1 l/100 km)
Combined CO2 emission:539 g/km
Dimensions and Weight Wheelbase:106.7 in (2710 mm)
Vehicle length:175.7 in (4462 mm)
Vehicle height:46.5 in (1155 mm)
Vehicle width:78.7 in (1998 mm)
Curb weight:4,052 lbs (1838 kg)