Just on the Bugatti website there's a 360 degree view of the engine available in both opaque and transparent. What a masterpiece, the 2 massive intercoolers running along the top, 8 exhaust outlets feeding 2 manifolds each with a turbo per side this must be the worlds most powerful vacuum cleaner.
Even forgetting the 1001hp the numbers are impressive with 4 cams running 64 valves in what looks to be 2 narrow angel (probably 15 degrees) V8s stuck together on a crank that must be as heaver as a small car.
Models>Veyron>Engineering>Engine (link is at the bottom)
If you put 4 Nissan SR20DET from the 1998 S15 Silvia/200SX together you get 1000bhp. 8L, 16 cylinder, 8 cams, 64 valves, 4 turbo's, variable inlet timing (simple cam advance). So technically it's comparable with 4 old hat 20th century technology engines. Stick 4
21st century motors like the SR20VET with variable inlet and exhaust timing together and it's up to 1080bhp. Either can be turned up to over 300bhp for peanuts. It would be a bit upsetting to be upstaged on outright power by someone that's nailed 4 £10000 (+ spent
4xpeanuts) crate motors together turning up with 1200bhp.
They could save a whole lot of weight by making a proper performance engine that has higher than joe average turbo specific power output. For £1,000,000 I'd expect around 250bhp/l so it only needs 4L to make
1000bhp - throw half the engine away or make it 2000bhp. I know of amateurs that have put 250bhp/L turbo engines together from off the shelf stuff + local machine shop jobs + a bit of brains. So for £1,000,000 I'm sure the pro's can do the same and afford a bit of titanium for things like con rods to make it reliable. Well you get titanium rods on Porsche 911 GT3 costing an 1/8th as much (but still don't get 125bhp/L).
Well the engine is undoubtedly good but Bugatti can't design a website for toffee. All stupid sockwaft flash with no URLs to link to, and a pitifully low res mini-window that can't be zoomed or seen properly by anyone who lacks bionic vision.
An example of how to put people off looking at your site, even when the products you sell are sexy and exciting, as I doubt many punters work through the rubbish to get to the actual content they're after.
I bet some marketing lot persuaded them to do it that way, to showcase their skills at naff presentation rather than the car they're supposed to be advertising.
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