Bugatti Chiron Super Sport

3 years ago

2022 Bugatti Chiron Super Sport unveiled with 440km/h top speed and $5.5 million price tag

The Ultimate Grand Tourisme

Ever since the first CHIRON entered the scene, it has been the embodiment of performance, power, and comfort.

After the CHIRON and CHIRON Sport, the CHIRON Pur Sport showed the ferocious personality of a hyper sports car made for corners and lateral agility. Now, with the CHIRON Super Sport, we are following our long tradition of combining extreme high speed with absolute luxury, to offer a whole new dimension of the BUGATTI experience.

With its longtail streamlined design and the fabulous performance of its 1.600 PS, the CHIRON Super Sport represents the essence of what we have learned and developed in recent years and honors the Super Sport brand nine decades after its birth.

The CHIRON Super Sport is the ultimate Grand Tourisme, delivering brutal performance in total comfort.

The CHIRON family is multi-faceted. Inspired by this versatility, we have created a double-sided navigation experience to present you BUGATTI’s latest masterpiece from all perspectives. We wish you a splendid journey.

Mastering the wind

For the CHIRON Super Sport, BUGATTI developed a new streamlined longtail silhouette, driven by the philosophy Form follows performance.

“Over 400 km/h (249 mph), a car must offer a lot of downforce, but with the lowest possible aerodynamic drag. The body must therefore be particularly efficient and streamlined,” explains Frank Heyl, Deputy Design Director at BUGATTI. The extended rear end, known as the ‘longtail,’ gives the CHIRON Super Sport a whole new character, not only visually, but also technically.

With increased power, acceleration, and top speed, the BUGATTI CHIRON Super Sport delivers an even more intense and fascinating driving experience.

Technical maxims steered the whole development, because the demands on the new hyper sports car are very high: at 440 km/h (273 mph), it must be easy to control.

Despite the immense power and enormous longitudinal acceleration, the CHIRON Super Sport drives comfortably and harmoniously like no other hyper sports car.

No Power Without Control

“The CHIRON Super Sport is incredibly fast, drives very precisely and easily at high speeds, and is at the same time very comfortable, even on longer tours. It’s a breathtaking mix and a great feeling to drive fast in the car,” explains BUGATTI’s Pilote Officiel Andy Wallace.

“The acceleration of a CHIRON cannot be compared with anything else. With the even more powerful CHIRON Super Sport, the incredible boost never seems to end. It is always moving forward.”

The CHIRON Super Sport delivers a unique sensorial experience, made of staggering technology and unparalleled performance.

Bugatti Chiron Super Sport
VEHICLE TYPE
mid-engine, all-wheel-drive, 2-passenger, 2-door coupe

PRICE AS TESTED
$3,710,850 (base price: $3,273,000)

ENGINE TYPE
quad-turbocharged and intercooled DOHC 64-valve W-16, aluminum block and heads, port fuel injection
Displacement: 488 in³, 7993 cm³
Power: 1479 hp @ 6700 rpm
Torque: 1180 lb-ft @ 2000 rpm

TRANSMISSION
7-speed dual-clutch automatic

CHASSIS
Suspension (F/R): control arms/multilink
Brakes (F/R): 16.5-in vented, cross-drilled ceramic disc/15.7-in vented, cross-drilled ceramic disc
Tires: Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2, F:285/30ZR-20 (99y) BG R: 355/25ZR-21 (107Y) BG

DIMENSIONS
Wheelbase: 106.7 in
Length: 178.9 in
Width: 80.2 in
Height: 47.7 in
Passenger volume: 54 ft³
Trunk volume: 2 ft³
Curb weight: 4544 lb

C/D TEST RESULTS
60 mph: 2.4 sec
100 mph: 4.4 sec
130 mph: 6.5 sec
150 mph: 8.6 sec
200 mph: 15.7 sec
Rolling start, 5–60 mph: 3.1 sec
Top gear, 30–50 mph: 2.4 sec
Top gear, 50–70 mph: 2.2 sec
1/4 mile: 9.4 sec @ 158 mph
Top speed (mfr’s claim): 261 mph
Braking, 70–0 mph: 160 ft
Roadholding, 300-ft-dia skidpad: 1.06 g

Standing-start accel times omit 1-ft rolloutof 0.2 sec.

EPA FUEL ECONOMY
Combined/city/highway: 11/9/14 mpg

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