The Gentleman Magazine Issue 4 | August/September | Page 33
BUGATTI’S IMPRESSIVE APPEARANCE
AT THE GOODWOOD FESTIVAL OF SPEED 2017
With its appearance at this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed
in the South of England, Bugatti is more than doing justice
to its status as the manufacturer of the ultimate super sports
car. With eight vehicles from its recent past, the French luxury
brand brought as many as 9,404 horsepower onto the lawn at
Goodwood House near Chichester in West Sussex.
The cars included six Veyron 16.4’s, one of which was a pre-
series car from 2005, a fantastic Veyron 16.4 Pur Sang from
2007 (both 1001 HP), a 1,200 HP Super Sport from the World
Record Edition (2010) and the 1,200 HP Grand Sport Vitesse,
which took the world speed record for production roadsters in
2013. However the crowning highlight of the presentation was
the new 1,500 HP Chiron.
Two examples of the world’s most powerful, fastest, most
exclusive and most luxurious production super sports car were
on show at Goodwood, the first customer vehicle for the United
Kingdom and a Chiron which travelled to Goodwood direct
from Bugatti’s headquarters in Molsheim to thrill visitors on
the legendary hill climb which was piloted by British racing
driver and Le Mans winner Andy Wallace.
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