Bleu is the colour (Top Gear Reviews the Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport Sang Bleu)

Top Gear.com ^ | 08/17/09 | Top Gear

[Reaganesque]

If the standard, boring, 1001bhp, open-top Veyron Grand Sport is just too commonplace for your exacting standards, how about a one-off Grand Sport Sang Bleu?

Bugatti unveiled this special edition convertible Veyron at Pebble Beach over the weekend. As the Sang Noir special edition Veyron featured a black-on-black livery, so the Sang Bleu – yep, it means ‘blue blood’ in French – is decked out in blue carbon fibre and polished aluminium.

Mechanically, the Sang Bleu identical to the standard Veyron Grand Sport – though it’s tough to argue with a thousand-bhp 8.0-litre W16 engine and a 0-60mph time comfortably under three seconds.

So, yeah, we’ll take one, please. Ta. But we can’t helping wondering whether Bugatti is slightly confusing the term ‘special edition’ with the term ‘paintjob’. Gorgeous as the Sang Bleu is, can they keep claiming another special edition each time they paint a Veyron in a new colour?

Maybe this is how to add value to your knackered old Vauxhall Nova come resale time. Paint the bonnet and roof in some improbable shade of fluorescent yellow – to contrast nicely with the beige doors – call it the Nova Coeur Jaune and add £500 to the part-ex value. Another recession-busting Top Gear Top Tip there…

[Reaganesque]

Gorgeous car! But, even if I had the money, I can't see ever paying the nearly $2.5 million dollars its supposed to go for. Still, its a beautiful machine and fun to look at and the guys at Top Gear are always entertaining to read and watch.

More pics:

Can you imagine the insurance premius? Holy cats!

[Zathras]

My favorite car and car show.
I’ve been playing around with the idea of building a Bugatti Veyron clone since the wheelbase and width are identical to a C5/C6 corvette.

[Red Badger]

Does it come in a DIESEL?................

[SJSAMPLE]

My cousin is the video editor at Car and Driver.
He brought this car out to his farm and has a pic of it sitting outside of his barn.

Hella kewl.

[Red Badger]

Rest In Peace, old friend, your work is finished.....

If you want ON or OFF the DIESEL ”KnOcK” LIST just FReepmail me.....

This is a fairly HIGH VOLUME ping list on some days.....

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[Reaganesque]

I wouldn’t mind attending some day.

[Reaganesque]

For $2.5 mil, I should hope so!

[Hexenhammer]

Had plans to go with my father this year, but his knees gave out on him again so we had to cancel.

[truth_seeker]

“Does it come in a DIESEL?................”

Bugatti is one of the VW Group’s luxury vehicle brands, along with Audi, Bentley, Lamborgini.

Audi won the American LeMans Series for a few recent years, with a Turbo Diesel closed wheel racing car.

So if they wanted, they could do a Diesel version of the Veyron line.

The whole point of the Veyron is to be the highest HP motor, fastest production car, etc. Not sure that would hold true with Diesel. Or if there is a market, in the $1 million plus price range.

Like fast production cars? Go to:

www.gtboard.com

[bruinbirdman]

Is "W" 16 a typo?

yitbos

[SC DOC]

I'd rather have SSC Ultimate Aero II

0-60 2.78 sec.
only $740K
1183 HP

[truth_seeker]

“Is “W” 16 a typo?”

No, not a typo. VW Group have built this design, in W 16 and W 12 configurations.

There were some Audi A8s with W 12 a few years back. VW Phaeton had W 12, I believe.

http://www.google.com/search?q=w+16+engine&rls=com.microsoft:en-us&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&startIndex=&startPage=1

[truth_seeker]

“I’d rather have SSC Ultimate Aero II”

Impressive.

Maybe the boys in Sweden will extend the runway of the airfield used for www.gtboard.com and then we could see them run side by side.

It looks like the runway length forces some of the cars to shut down before reaching top speed. (They have previously extended the runway length).

But there may be another contender:

The new owner of Saab, Koenigsegg, builds a high end fast car, too—the CCX, fron earlier CCR.

“On 28 February, 2005, at 12:08 hrs local time, in Nardò, Italy, the CCR broke the Guinness record for the fastest production car in the world, having attained 241.63 mph (388.87 km/h), breaking the record previously held by the McLaren F1. The record was held until September 2005 when the long awaited Bugatti Veyron broke the record again at 253.2 mph (407.5 km/h)..”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koenigsegg

Notice SSC and Koenigsegg mention electric hybrid.

[Gay State Conservative]

Not sure that would hold true with Diesel. Or if there is a market, in the $1 million plus price range.

There just might be a market for a diesel version.Just think of how much better the mileage might be.....3 mpg vs 2 mpg.

[truth_seeker]

“Bugatti is one of the VW Group’s luxury vehicle brands, along with Audi, Bentley, Lamborgini.”

Forgot to include Porsche, which is now majority owned or controlled by VW Group. Have been known to make some fairly fast cars, too.

[tubebender]

My cousin is the video editor at Car and Driver.

My cousin is in jail and he had his picture taken by the Sheriff...

[SouthTexas]

And I had mine TAKEN by the Sheriff. ;)

[tubebender]

My wife baby sat our current Sheriff years ago. Boy do I wish I had known he was was going to be Sheriff some day >>:)))

[SouthTexas]

Leverage! LOL

[tubebender]

I just remembered my BiL’s cousin was the former Sheriff. Gotta love these small towns...