"Bugatti Vision": a prototype for "Shiron"

Famous French automotive industrythe company has long been famous for the creation of expensive luxury cars. Since the founding of Ettore Bugatti in the early twentieth century and up to the present, production has experienced many ups and downs. These days it is a successful automobile company, comfortably placed under the wing of the all-powerful Volkswagen Group. The founder, who was a man of art, laid all his talents in his creations, turning every model into a masterpiece in terms of design and technical perfection. Despite the demise of the great designer in 1947 and the almost total collapse of the company some time later, now the Ettore affair is living, by the efforts of Volkswagen offering the world all new works of automotive art. One of these, namely, "Bugatti Vision", will be discussed in this article.

A bit of history

The future founder and owner of the company was born inItaly. Since childhood I have been accustomed to fine arts. Grandfather is an architect and sculptor, his father is a jeweler and an artist. The son was destined to connect his life with art. However, from the age of 16 he went to work in an automobile company engaged in the creation of racing cars. Engineer "from God," he never got a technical education. In 1909 he founded his own company in France. The predilection for racing determined the nature of the development of his automobile production. Art, soaked with the mother's milk, affected the elegant design of the huge number of models released by the company. And of course, Bugatti Vision is no exception.

Concept car

However, in order to understand the appearance of this unusualpoint of view of the automotive model, you should slightly deviate to the side and light up the topic of computer games. The famous simulator of virtual racing Gran Turismo 6 caused the biggest manufacturers to create their own versions of supercars. And not only in digital form, but also in real hardware, and, more precisely, in materials used for the production of modern racing cars. Thus, Bugatti Vision is the company's development not only in 3D, but also in the form of a real concept car, which was successfully presented to the public in 2015.

Design

The design team of the company "Bugatti" spentabout half a year to create a truly unique appearance of this prototype. The inspirer for the embodiment of the virtual model was the car, which entered its name in the history of the famous 24-hour survival race "Le Mans". Indeed, Bugatti Vision is somewhat reminiscent of the immortal winner of the 24-hour test of the 57G Tank, which took this unparalleled previously for the company height in 1937.

Blue with black color concept car againsends us to the model that won the "Le Mans". Bugatti Vision Gran Turismo is also something like a tank: brutal, daring, shocking. Only such words come to mind when trying to describe this fantastic car. As the head of the design department of the company says, the outward appearance of their cars has reached a new stage of evolution, offering the driver of the future incredible power under the hood of the Bugatti Vision.

Characteristics

Since the actual performance datain official sources you will not find and in the afternoon with fire, in a network with might and main the conjectures and assumptions about the real indicators of this monster are walking. The most realistic is the message that a 16-cylinder petrol engine is installed under the hood, with a capacity of one and a half thousand "horses", as well as the availability of an all-wheel drive. What allowed to assume about the ability to accelerate to 400 km / h. But, for the most part, it's speculation. Sources in the company claim that the concept is a transitional stage from the once-famous "Veyron" model, which, as is known, was discontinued in 2015, to the company's approaching future. And about him a few more words.

Future

The company sees it very brightly, presenting the worldcar with a proud name "Shiron". The origin of the names of the latest models of the stables is interesting. So, Pierre Veyron, as you know, is a French racer and engineer who worked for Bugatti. He won 24 hours of Le Mans in 1939 by car company. And Louis Chiron is the most famous racer from Monaco, one of the most famous pilots of pre-war time. By the way, his name was also used in the name of the model of the company, released in 1999.

Let's return to Bugatti Vision. The speed of 400 km / h, which was announced at the release of the concept car, obviously did not prove to be a "duck", as, indeed, the power characteristics. Indeed, the "Shiron", in which this offspring of the company, has claimed for the concept of a half thousand "horses", dispersed six-liter W16. Moreover, a newcomer in the stable of the company, according to technical data, can accelerate right up to 420 km / h!

In concluding this brief review,that the photo "Bugatti Vision", made in 2015, in many respects resemble the "Shiron", which, although it looks much lighter and faster, clearly took much from its conceptual predecessor.