Bugatti makes a road-going version of the W16-engined hypercar that became the first to hit 300mph. Chiron Super Sport first drive
All of these numbers, feats and statistics are impressive if you believe in the engineering and purpose behind creating £2.75 million hypercars .
The truly remarkable thing is that in the Super Sport, as with other Chirons and Veyrons before it, this performance is all achieved with an integrity that makes these cars as straightforward to use as a Volkswagen Golf. Actually, given how touchscreen-heavy the latest Golf’s interior is, driving the physically dialled Chiron is in many respects easier.
This stuff matters at speed, because of how things change at speed. Wallace says that at 261mph, at each wheel’s rim, forces are 3000g; so a 2.5g valve cap weighs 7.5kg and a 44g tyre-pressure sensor becomes 132kg. A conventional car tyre valve can’t be used, because at that speed it bends so much that it leaks. Things like this are happening throughout the car. So the more aero you have on your side, the better.
The ride is reasonably firm and there’s a fair bit of road noise. This isn’t unusual in carbonfibre-tubbed cars with tremendous rigidity. But the plush interior materials mute it more than in, say, aDifferent driving modes leave the steering well alone, as well as the engine and gearbox response. The biggest change is to the aero, courtesy of the rear wing height and angle, plus deflectors ahead of the front wheels.
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