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BUGGATI VEYRON
Super Sport:
The Veyron EB 16.4 is named in honor of Pierre Veyron who was a Bugatti development engineer, test driver and also company race driver. He with co-driver Jean-Pierre Wimille in 1939 won 24 hours of Le Mans driving a Bugatti. The name EB 16.4 refers to Bugatti founder Ettore Bugatti and to the engine's 16 cylinders and four turbochargers.
The Volkswagen Group in 1998 purchased trademark rights on the former car manufacturer Bugatti to take brand to the new heights. Volkswagen started with presenting four 18-cylinders Bugatti EB118 at various international auto shows. The first study of Veyron was presented in 1999 at Tokyo Motor Show. At that time the name of the concept car was Bugatti Veyron EB 18.4 which was equipped with a 3-bank W 18-cylinder engine instead of 2-bank W 16-cylinder engine. Giugiaro designed and styled three previous prototypes while the Veyron was designed by the Volkswagen stylists.
In the year 2001 Volkswagen decided to start the production of car. The first concept car to be taken out on the road was completed in August 2003. After which company decided to vary a few details to the later series variant. But considerable technical problems needed to be addressed in the development to series production, due to which the start of production was delayed again and again until September 2005.
Bugatti Veyron Super Sport

The Super Sport Veyron has an engine power increase from the standard 1,001 PS (736 kW; 987 bhp) to 1,200 PS (880 kW; 1,200 bhp) and 1,500 N•m Torque (1,100 lbf•ft) and a revised aerodynamic package. It has a 431.072 km/h (267.856 mph) top speed that makes it the fastest road car in production. But it is electronically limited to 415 km/h (258 mph) to protect the tyres from disintegrating. For the first time at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance in August 2010 it was shown for public. The first five of an unannounced production run made its debut in a combination of two colors matte black and orange colors, all of which have been spoken for. Bugatti have stated that only 30 will be produced and each is valued at GB£1.7 million.
On 4 July 2010 James May who is a television presenter on BBC 2's television show named Top Gear drove the Veyron Super Sport at 259 mph (417 km/h). The same day, Bugatti's official test driver Pierre Henri Raphanel also drove the Super Sport version of the Veyron on Volkswagen's Ehra-Lessien, Germany high-speed test track to establish the car's top speed, in the presence of representatives of the Guinness Book of Records and German Technical Inspection Agency (TUV). Around the big oval in both directions Raphanel made passes achieving an average maximum speed of 431.072 km/h (267.856 mph), which helped taking back the title from the SSC Ultimate Aero TT as the fastest production vehicle. The 431.072 km/h mark was reached by averaging the Super Sport's two test runs. The first run reaching top speed of 427.93 km/h (265.90 mph) and the second 434.20 km/h (269.80 mph). The first five Super Sports will be in the same black and orange finish as the first car which was used to set the speed record.