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Once you have made the world’s media and customers at the end of 2005, producing 1,001 hp Bugatti Veyron has to “full throttle” in the factory of the company, the “Atelier”, in Molsheim , near Strasbourg, in France. This is where the car is assembling a team of 20 highly professional and technical staff. In the year of their follow the car from the beginning until the end of construction. They are in full time from the engine assembly is rolled into the field on a trolley until the complete roll out of the car “Atelier” under his own steam and on the right wheel.

A car International

The Bugatti Veyron is an impressive platform technology and top-end cars – loyal to Bugatti’s heritage «nothing is too expensive, nothing is too beautiful» – only the best and materials in commerce is being used in the manufacturing process. The Bugatti Veyron is a truly international car. One of the key and the most sophisticated, the 7-speed DSG sequential– Double-leg gearbox, is made by specialists Ricardo sports car in the UK, only 8-cylinder 16 ,0-liter-engine from the Volkswagen engine plant in Salzgitter in Germany.

The tyres – tyres first manufacturers in the industry homologated for speeds over 400 km / h – is a development with Michelin. Monocoque carbon fiber built by ATR in Italy, before and after aluminum-forged in the structure of Heggemann in Germany and the bespoke carbon-ceramic brakes by AP Racing in the United Kingdom. The paintwork is German, Austria for the skin, the windscreen is manufactured in Finland, and to go about it.

Only 300 units of the Bugatti Veyron will never be built. Start production at the rate of 50 vehicles per year, approximately one a week. Bugatti Automobiles SAS, however, is striving to achieve a higher and plan to get closer with an annual output of a hundred to reduce the waiting time for customers.

It does not as a surprise that over 30% of the Bugatti Veyron Order tagged for United States, by tradition far the most important market for luxury cars. United States is followed by Germany. 19% of orders placed by German daily. United Kingdom, a country with classically very strong links with the legendary Bugatti brand, is third with 16% and the Middle East to fourth with about 15%.

1998 through 1999: four design studies in 15 months time In April 1998, the Volkswagen Group has over Bugatti brand, introduced the brand to the public for the first time at the International Motor Show in Paris with a study for a coupe it twodoor Committee has Italdesign to create: the Bugatti EB 118. A few months later, in March 1999, at the Geneva Motor Show, a design of your EB 218, itself also created at Italdesign, caused a sensation with four doors using the same bin of 18 — cylinder, 6.3 liter engine with 555 hp.

This has been followed, the same year, at the IAA in Frankfurt, central-engine design, the Bugatti EB 18 / 3 Chiron; again Giugiaro was responsible for the design. And shortly thereafter, in Tokyo, the Bugatti EB 18 / 4 Veyron Premiere held its world, a model designed in ‘excellent Volkswagen’s Design Center’ under the directorship of Hartmut Warkuss.

No more almost a year later, in autumn 2000 in Paris, Bugatti Veyron 16.4 was shown for the first time. The Bugatti Veyron 16.4 with the ultimate performance in features, the HP 1001, 8 – liter, 16-cylinder engine and more technology – 1250 Nm at 2200 rpm, top speed over 400 km / h, four turbochargers and permanent four wheel drive – features that are still in this day, held at the IAA in Frankfurt in September 2001.

2003: New team – new objectives

In 2001, the decision was made to go into production by serial Bugatti Veyron 16.4 with many not exceed 300 cars. In December of next year, ‘Bugatti Automobiles SAS “was established, a subsidiary of’ Volkswagen France ‘with headquarters in Molsheim. And nearly a year later on, at the end of 2003, Dr. Thomas Bscher has total cost of the Bugatti project as the new President of ‘Bugatti Automobiles SAS’. To assist appointed Mr. D. was Wolfgang Schreiber, serving as director of engineering and is the ‘Bugatti Engineering GmbH’ in Wolfsburg, where all development work for the Bugatti and coordination, in part, make . Function of him was based on the Bugatti Veyron 16.4 on the road.

The new group to the entire project for a technology committee and financial feasibility studies, among others, to develop a time frame for the actual launch production of new Bugatti. Shortly before the Geneva Motor Show 2004, the Executive Board at the Group approved the plan for ‘new’ Veyron project, planned production to start in September 2005. This is schedule to meet.

The Bugatti Veyron: An Unrivaled general performance top with daily

This is done all the more remarkable by the fact that the Bugatti Veyron 16.4, although it is limited production, when called to meet all specifications of Corporations VW’s in all. This means innumerable time trial and tested throughout the entire world, all devoted to the fulfilment of a single goal: to measure up to strict, indeed relentless quality and quality ensure the standards we have presented to. This ensures that this super sports car will be driving for a day is good, to a degree never before witnessed any other serial production vehicle of this type.

In the modern world, serial production cars, the general was brought to fruition in the Bugatti Veyron 16.4 is a general problem of easy and free daily activities and traffic Breathtaking driving in high-performance. A reference which is music to the ears of Ettore Bugatti, with early success have been rooted in a combination of this special.

Widely in construction work Molsheim

Tandem to work continuously in the product area, extensive construction work was launched at the location in Molsheim. To begin with, the Château St. Jean – an edifice that Ettore Bugatti never used as a residence that is a form which, in today’s parlance is a term service center customers, has been changed completely new.

Two counters are located on the south and north of the castle, which in Bugatti’s day as stables, telemetrically were surveyed, dismantled and, using as many of the elements of the original structure, such as wall segments and woodwork, as were still usable, reconstructed in a faithful copy of the original structure. In this new ‘Bugatti Era’, will this structure for most of the administrative part has a character in one of the spaces, clients will also be able to get in a Bugatti Veyron relics calendar erection.

Core of the investment made in Molsheim is the ‘Atelier’ in which production of the Bugatti Veyron 16 / 4 is starting from September 2005. In the form of architecture, equipment modern production was made stylistic features dipping back into the history of the brand of car. With a southern exposure, light-filled, glassed primary school is only a part of an evocative production-car operation in the classic sense of the term – it consider the details of the beholder ‘Formula One in the laboratory. The installation is dominated by the clinically clean and accurate, with the development of component parts. And yet the ‘Atelier’ can still hold its own against the ‘big players’.

A runway for the measurement of relevant functional-performance data and a generously proportioned to test water systems spray water tightness vehicle found here, along with a room under the glaring lights lighting the slightest inconsistency in car’s paintwork mercilessly catches the eye. A small test course has been presented in a green space in front of the building. It can be used to supplement the road-testing program required for all Veyrons and conclusions of the vehicle manufacturing process. A logistics center built next to the ‘Atelier’ within the complex of buildings in Molsheim.

Location of historical

Thanks to Bugatti, Molsheim has been elevated from anonymity to find locations on their own maps – not only of the car world. And this is certainly plausible, for both the location of Ettore Bugatti’s production facilities and the individual’s residence, which is located near immediately. With the purchase of the Château St. Jean and the property around it, including some 140,000 m2 and other sites of all modern-day Bugatti as well as activities, this has changed completely some geographical conditions. To be precise, the property is located in Dorlisheim that, while within the context of the former Bugatti factory, is located on the other party nevertheless Bruche river. This has been the source of inspiration for a ‘postal sleight of hand’ on the part of the new management at Bugatti.

To be able to perform the historical value of the position to Bugatti in Molsheim in the future, while at the same time meet the regulations of administrative land, a compromise negotiated with local authorities. A Solomonic solution was to live with later – those who have very favorable views of the entire Bugatti project right from the start, providing the support during its development. Accurate and complete address of Bugatti ‘CRU 2005′ is: Bugatti Automobiles SAS, 1, Château St. Jean, Dorlisheim, F-67 120 Molsheim.

Bugatti is on the threshold of a new era. Molsheim is its position. International companies. Ettore Bugatti was born in 1881 in Italy. He has completed its technical guidelines in Germany, first with Dietrich in Niederbronn in Alsace – at the time still part of Germany – and then at Deutz in Cologne, before he built the first their cars in 1909 in Molsheim. Since 1998, Bugatti has belonged to the Volkswagen Group as a French company with a French headquarters.

Modern day Bugatti team – every bit as international as the company itself – see the legacy of Ettore Bugatti as both a challenge and an obligation. Therefore, Dr. Bscher welcome comments concluded with these words: ‘We bring the Bugatti Veyron from a visionary to the practical Sketch of the automotive world. In doing so, we present the cornerstone for leading one of the famous and prestigious as the car from virtuality of the past difficult to compete in the future. Bugatti brands will increase competitiveness. The Bugatti Veyron sports car is best in the world, a vehicle in which the likes the world has, in this form, never seen before. The technical data are second to none. The Bugatti Veyron closes the distance between the myths and mythical vision. We believe we have Interpreted Ettore Bugatti’s ideas in the 21st century in much the same way as he himself may have been completed. Whether we succeed in this still be displayed. But one thing is sure. The Bugatti Veyron is just a start. This is a car brand alive – and will live ‘.