- With the price tag of ≈ € 1.28 million ≈ £1,14 million$1,70 million Bugatti Veyron is the most expensive car in the world.
- It is named after French racing driver Pierre Veyron, who won the 24 hours of Le Mans in 1939 while racing for the original Bugatti company. It was named "Car Of The Decade" by the BBC television programme Top Gear.
- Bugatti was founded in Molsheim (1909), France, as a manufacturer of high performance automobiles by Ettore Bugatti, an Italian man described as an eccentric genius.
- At the Veyron’s top speed, the fuel economy drops to 3 miles per US gallon.
- It was also the most powerful and fastest street-legal production car with a top speed of 253.81 mph (408.47km/h) until beaten by the SSC Ultimate Aero TT with a highest speed of 257 mph (413 km/h).
- Two hundred and twenty Veyrons are known to have been built and delivered since production began in 2005 and ended in late 2008.
- The engine produce 2000hp heat, the reason why it has 12 coolers with 55 liter cooling water.
- In 2005 Veyron production started, as they made the video they had finished and delivered 50 Veyron, as they made that video the waiting list for ordered Veyron was 1,5years.
- The 2-door coupe Bugatti Veyron is the fastest accelerating car in the world. It takes only 2.6 seconds to go from 0-60 MPH!
- In a speed race, if the McLaren F1 were allowed to reach 120 mph before the Bugatti started, the Bugatti would still be the first to reach 200 mph, according to the host of Top Gear, Jeremy Clarkson.
10 interesting Bugatti Veyron facts
