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Bugatti 16C Galibier Saloon Slated for Production in 2013 - report
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Like the mind-bending Veyron, this four-door über-luxury car will have a limited production run of only 300 units. Prices are expected to be around £900,000 (US$1.3 million).
Technical specifications currently available are based on the concept car which has an 8.0-litre 16-cylinder engine. Speculation is that 800 horses (588 kW) are on the cards and the drive will go to all four wheels via an 8-speed automatic gearbox.
Terá uma produção limitada a 300 unidades, 800cv e uma caixa automática de 8 velocidades.
Fonte: autocar.co.uk via worldcarfans.com
O combustível deste carro é o quê? 100% metano?
Com tantas bufadeiras só pode!! []
O combustível deste carro é o quê? 100% metano?
Com tantas bufadeiras só pode!! []
Fonte: CARBugatti will launch the 16C Galibier limousine shown in 2010 as a concept car, the new president and CEO Wolfgang Durheimer has confirmed to CAR. The Galibier will eventually be part of a two-strong Bugatti range, meaning there's life in the hypercar brand post-Veyron.
In a wide-ranging interview in the new May 2011 issue, Durheimer revealed that the Galibier would carry over the Veyron's monstrous W16 engine and transmission, but that Bugatti is developing a hybrid option to make sure its big limo retains social acceptability.
Bugatti Galibier project: what we know
Edited highlights of the full interview, which you can read in the May 2011 issue on sale on Wednesday 20 April, include:
• The Galibier project is go
• Sales of 3000 Galibiers versus Veyron's 300
• Mulsheim's factory being expanded to cope
• Design freeze expected in autumn 2011
• The Veyron's W16 engine will be carried over to the Galibier
• Galibier will pack a new hybrid option
• Dual-clutch gearbox appears again
• £1 million + price tag
• Interior to feature porcelain trimmings
Bugatti's future product: two models
With the final Veyrons being built, Bugatti's hypercar is coming to the end of the road. Durheimer confirmed there would be a place for a sports car in the mould of the Veyron, as well as a more luxo-oriented limo such as the Galibier and said all Bugattis for the foreseeable future would use the W16 engine.
'We can have one car biased more towards racing, and one for the road,' he told CAR. 'We are looking not to the floor but to the ceiling... We want to see how far we can push this brand. The Galibier will fulfil all the demands of Ettore Bugatti: the best car in the world, very luxurious, the best materials, the best surfaces.'
Durheimer admitted the programme was still quite fluid. 'My next meeting with [VW Group chairman Martin] Winterkorn will be to set the dimensions of this car,' he told CAR. 'Only then can we finalise the design, but we will have that in the third quarter of 2011. And we still must decide if it is a carbon monocoque like the Veyron, or an aluminium spaceframe.'
Why Bugatti is developing a hybrid
Durheimer said the company was developing a hybrid option for the new Bugatti. 'When the mayors of cities know we can make cars that run silently, I don't expect they will allow cars that pollute into city centres,' he said. 'But I can't imagine a Galibier owner leaving their car at the park-and-ride and catching a bus. That's why we need to offer a hybrid with this car, so owners drive up to the hotel silently in EV mode. But not every Galibier needs to be a hybrid - in places like Dubai it is not what the market wants.'
Don't miss the full interview in the May 2011 issue of CAR.
[El Bugatti Veyron nos dirá adiós desde Molsheim antes de que acabe 2011. Trescientos coches y siete años después de la primera entrega, el Veyron deberá abandonar la fábrica de Bugatti para hacer hueco no a otro estratosférico romperrécords (esa misión quedará ahora en manos de firmas como SSC o Koenigsegg), sino a una berlina de representación como no se ha visto desde los tiempos del Bugatti Royale. Y ese, precisamente, sería el nombre escogido para bautizar a la nueva joya de la corona de VAG.
Los chicos de Autoblog.nl afirman haber puesto sus garras sobre un documento en el que se describe a grandes trazos este modelo que hasta ahora conocíamos como Galibier, y que buscaría asemejarse al codiciado Type 41. Dotado de una longitud de 6,4 metros y haciendo gala de un motor de 12,7 litros, esta mayestática limusina fue diseñada por Ettore Bugatti pensando en la realeza europea (de hecho, de no haber sido por la proclamación de la Segunda República, Alfonso XIII se hubiera hecho con uno), pero la Gran Depresión hizo que sólo se fabricaran seis coches de los veinticinco planeados originalmente. Las previsiones de Bugatti para el nuevo Royale serían sin embargo mucho más halagüeñas, puesto que querría colocar nada menos que 3.000 unidades en seis años, que es un auténtica barbaridad considerando que su precio debería rondar el millón de euros.![]()
Bugatti parecía contenta con la idea de no tener que volver a competir por un nuevo récord del mundo ahora que el Veyron está a punto de jubilarse, pero así como el nuevo Galibier (¿Royale?) no aspirará a revalidar el título de la marca como el constructor de automóviles de producción más rápido del mundo, es posible que sí rompa o al menos mantenga otra marca: la del precio.
La revista alemana Auto Motor und Sport ha charlado con Wolfgang Dürheimer, jefe de la marca de Molsheim, para ver qué hay de nuevo al respecto de la superberlina francoalemana; una reunión de la que ha trascendido que el próximo coche de Bugatti será mucho más caro. Así como el Veyron se mueve dependiendo del modelo y de las opciones entre 1,2 y 2 millones de euros, el Galibier tendrá un importe "significativamente superior" al millón de euros desde el primer momento, reflejando su condición de emperador en el segmento de las grandes berlinas de representación. Parte de ese dinero estará justificado por el uso de técnicas "revolucionarias" en el desarrollo del coche, que podría o no utilizar algúnsistema híbrido en combinación con el bloque W16 del Veyron.
En la conversación, Dürheimer ha confirmado que finalmente el coche comenzará a ser fabricado a finales de 2012, tan pronto como lo permita el fin de producción del Veyron Grand Sport, con la esperanza de colocar entre 1.000 y 1.500 unidades del coche a lo largo de su vida comercial. Esta estimación queda muy lejos de los 3.000 coches que señalaban informaciones oficiosas, y no parece demasiado descabellada si consideramos el precio final del coche...
¿Llegaremos a ver algo sólo en el Salón de Frankfurt o nos harán esperar otro año más?
[Vía WCF]
[Fuente: Auto Motor und Sport]
Fonte: Inside LineJust the Facts:
INGOLSTADT, Germany — New Bugatti boss Wolfgang Durheimer has put Bugatti's much-hyped four-door super sedan on hold because it's not yet an "argument stopper," sources have admitted.
- New Bugatti boss has put Bugatti's four-door super sedan on hold because it's not yet an "argument stopper."
- The Galibier concept originally boasted 800 horsepower, which sources say isn't good enough for Wolfgang Durheimer.
- A decision will be made later this year about the sedan's future.
A decision will be made later this year about the future of the Galibier after Durheimer posed some tricky questions to Bugatti's engineering team about comfort, interior space and performance, sources said.
The concept car originally proposed 800 horsepower as the target figure, and it is understood that Durheimer is less than satisfied with that output.
"In his opinion," our source confirmed, "there should not even be a question about the best car in the world when you sit down to discuss it with your billionaire buddies.
"He doesn't want to build it until it's the car that finishes the argument, not the car that starts it.
"Right now, it's definitely not enough (power) and it needs more space and comfort, especially in the rear.
"It's 800 horsepower now, but there are tuners today who can give you that and we don't want our car to be involved in any discussion that involves tuners, so we have to move the benchmarks."
Inside Line says: Looks like the new boss of Bugatti is serious about maintaining the brand's reputation for vehicles that are over the top in every way possible.