Now Bugatti is developing Veyron's successor the Chiron. The Bugatti 18/3 Chiron was a 1999 concept sports car designed by Fabrizio Giugiaro of ItalDesign. It is a mid-engine design with the same W18 engine found in the EB 118 and EB 218 concept cars. Bugatti named the Chiron in honor of Bugatti racing driver Louis Chiron. Back then the two prototypes were sharing the same engine and that is what Bugatti is doing now. Although it shares Veyron's W16 8.0-liter quad turbo engine, output will be bumped from the Veyron Super Sport's 1,200 HP (882 kW) to somewhere in the region of 1,500 HP (1,103 kW) while torque will remain at 1,500 Nm (1,106 lb-ft).
In order to achive these figures according with the Automobile Magazine direct fuel injection is introduced and boost pressure is increased, with at least two of the four turbochargers now powered electrically. The fast-acting e-turbos should promptly provide torque—likely to peak again around 1,100 lb-ft—which will be delivered via a seven-speed dual-clutch transmission and dispersed through torque-vectoring, all-wheel drive.
To continue the magic numbers don't stop here. It's rumored that the Chiron will have a top speed of 288 mph (463.5 km/h) with a speedometer going all the way up to 500 km/h (310.7 mph), making it faster than any other Veyron model.
Also Automobile Magazine reports a 0-62 mph (0-100 km/h) run in less than 2.5 seconds and carbon ceramic brakes along with a massive rear wing that acts as an air brake will help slow it down.
Although the new Chiron is being derived from existing carbon-fiber architecture, 92 percent of the parts will be either new or massively reworked.
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