Bugattis The newest tribute to the Veyron for his 20th birthday turned out to be no other special of 1,800 hp, a watch with six digits, or even a lot of extravagant lifestyle merchandise. Instead, it is a logo. Unveiled on the 2025 Bugatti Festival in Molsheim that was closed yesterday, the emblem “20 years of Veyron” contains the French tricolore woven in the number 20 in addition to the signature of Pierre Veyron, the men’s racer who won the 24 -hour Le Mans of 1939 of Le Mans.
It is a modest celebration by Bugatti standards, where visitors to the Parc des Jésuites were treated to a diverse line -up of historical and modern Bugattis, covered with a parade by Molsheim. The timing was not coincidental; Like today, September 15 would also have marked the 144th birthday of Ettore Bugatti.
But there is a lot to the Veyron story, and you will have to look back on some of our earlier reporting to get the big whole. Earlier this year we documented the story of the record -breaking Veyron about the 88th birthday of Ferdinand Piëch in April. Piëch, grandson of Ferdinand Porsche, personally drove the acquisition of Bugatti through Volkswagen Group in the nineties and demanded a car that would reset the boundaries of Engineering. We have examined the modest beginning of the W16-engine of Quad-Turbo Charged, why Bugatti chose to honor Pierre Veyron with the name of the fastest production car in the world, and how design concept research such as the EB 118, EB 218, EB 18/3 Chiron and Ebbalcap has always changed the last product.
The path to the 2005 debut was anything but simple. In 1997, Piëch outlined an 18-cylinder engine on the back of an envelope while driving on a train in Japan. Die Doodle inspired five Bugatti concepts, starting with the aforementioned EB 118 Grand Tourer unveiled at the Paris Autoshow in 1998. Designed by Giiororgetto Giugiaro, the EB 118 used a 555-HP W18 engine. The EB 218 Sedan followed in Geneva, then the EB 18/3 Chiron in Frankfurt and the EB 18/4 Veyron in Tokyo. Each iteration came closer to reality, but the final production car arrived with a fully reworked 8.0-liter W16, a power plant whose rule only ended with the mistral and four-wheel drive.
When the Veyron eventually made his debut in 2005, the figures seemed alien. The 8.0-liter, quad-turbo W16 supplied famous 1,001 Metric PK (987 hp US) and a verified 253 MPH top speed. Die Run, performed on VW’s EHRA-Lessien test track with Le Mans winner Andy Wallace at the Wiel, marked the end of the decade long reign of the McLaren F1 as the world’s fastest production car. With around $ 1.25 million each and almost $ 2 billion in development costs, the Veyron was not a business case; It was Ferdinand Piëch’s attempt on it, whereby the location of Bugatti at the top of the implementation hierarchy was confirmed. During the 10-year production run of the Veyron, 450 examples were produced in the Molseihm facility, in various variants and special editions.
Bugatti’s Low-Key tribute this year, just a logo, a parade and a festival, feels almost modest for a brand built on a spectacle. But maybe that’s the point. The Veyron does not need a flashy anniversary model to prove its place in history. 20 years later, it remains the car that was re -defined, which means ‘fastest’, connected to the artificial mation of Ettore, the racestirnus of Pierre and the uncompromising vision of Piëch.
Source: Bugatti
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