The test took place at the track in Ehra-Lessien in Lower Saxony, Germany, which belongs to the Volkswagen Group. At the same time, Bugatti paid special attention to this test: before going on the track, the car was even equipped with about a hundred sensors measuring important data such as temperature, pressure, etc.
The Bugatti Chiron Super Sport is a modernized version of the regular Chiron. The car is equipped with the same W16 engine with 1600 hp and 1600 Nm, but the gear ratios in the automatic transmission were changed, which actually increased the car's dynamics. For context, such a hypercar shifts to 7th gear only when it reaches 400 km/h.
At the same time, the Chiron Super Sport is not the fastest member of the model family. There is also the Super Sport 300 version, which was accelerated to a dizzying 490.48 km/h in 2019.
"After successful road tests [of the Chiron Super Sport – ed.] at speeds up to 380 km/h, we proceeded to adjust the car's handling at 440 km/h to ensure uncompromising safety even at such an unrealistic speed...", said the head of Bugatti's chassis development department, Jachin Schwalbe, in a recent statement.
In total, Bugatti will produce 60 units of the Chiron Super Sport and another 30 of the 300 version. The cost of such a car starts from 3.2 million euros.
