citação:Originalmente colocada por Eliselotus
ok, houve um engenheiro que deu o ok para se pensar em iniciar o projecto.
antes disso, diz ai qual foi a influencia dele (no design e na escolha dos numeros)
Foi ele que decidiu que queria 1001cv e mais de 400 km/h.
"VW chairman Ferdinand Piëch announced the production Veyron at the 2001 Geneva Motor Show. It was promised to be the fastest, most powerful, and most expensive car in history."
"This car is already the stuff of legend. In the early days of its development, so one of the stories goes, the engineers were struggling to get the power from the engine. So they asked for a meeting with Dr. Piech and suggested it might be easier to launch the Veyron with 700-800bhp and work up to 1000bhp with later derivatives, once they'd figured out how to do it. Dr. Piech fixed them with the famous death-rays, dismissed their suggestion and ordered them out, telling them not to return until the power figure started with a one." -
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"Piëch's dream
Like Oscar Wilde, Ferdinand Piëch always craved the best. At Porsche, he demolished his rivals with the legendary 917. At Audi, he came up with the Quattro. At VW, he paid peanuts for the Bugatti name before spending big money on the development of the Veyron. Its mission was to end the eternal citius, altius, fortius debate forever by establishing a performance standard that no other marque could match.
Full passenger side view of the 2006 Bugatti Veyron EB 16 4
Although Piëch initially had proposed an even more extreme eighteen-cylinder engine, he eventually settled for the W-16, which is composed of two 4.0-liter W-8 units. But the monosyllabic Austrian would not compromise on the performance targets. Maximum power had to nudge the 1000-hp threshold, and maximum speed had to be in excess of 400 kph (249 mph). The asking price was set at 1 million euros--approximately $1.23 million--plus taxes. While Piëch loved the car, the engineers hated it, citing insurmountable cooling and aerodynamic problems. But the chairman did not budge: no styling changes, no performance compromises, no excuses. " -
http://www.automobilemag.com/reviews/coupes/0511_bugatti_veryon/
