Bugatti's track attack

What if Bugatti built a radically light vehicle around its iconic 8.0-litre W16 engine? The experimental study of the Bugatti Bolide is a track-oriented hyper sports car featuring a W16 engine derived from series production as powertrain combined with a minimal body for maximum downforce. It therefore promises to offer the ultimate Bugatti performance kick.

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At the same time, the Bolide is the most extreme, uncompromising, fastest and lightest vehicle concept in the company’s recent history – with an incredible weight-to-power ratio of 0.67 kg per PS. This is made possible by the combination of the W16 engine with 1,850 hp and a vehicle weight of just 1,240 kgs. The Bolide achieves figures that are almost on par with a Formula 1 car while its top speed is well above 300mph. Bugatti have even worked out that the Bolide could lap Le Mans in 3:07.1 minutes and the Nordschleife in 5:23.1 minutes.

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