- Well, it's low and it's hidden under a blanket.
(dark, powerful music)
We're in Hamburg in a studio
on the outskirts of Hamburg, Germany.
We're the first people, the first outsiders
to see the new Bugatti Chiron.
Wow, it's very different.
Put a lifesaver across the back.
Fin down the middle.
C-graphic around the door there.
First impressions, it's wider, it looks lower.
It looks more aggressive than the other car.
More edge to it, but most definitely a Bugatti.
- How do we approach the subject?
Not with styling, but with technical substance.
It has all the stylistic elements that we're featuring
now on this car, the Chiron, relayed back
to a serious, technical development and are illustrating
the technical development so that there's as little styling
as possible and as much technical function as possible
visible in our design.
The statement that the (unclear) with the air scoops
on the roof, I think that instigation you find now
on the side of the Bugatti.
When you look at the Bugatti line in side view
that car is very often mistaken as a styling line
just on the car.
It's not, it's quite the opposite.
The air that travels along the side glass of the car
is extremely clean.
And that clean air is needed for a lot of pressure
to go into the upper air intake area in that line
and it's vital for the engine breathing.
The fin going down through the middle of the car
relates back to our heritage, to the Bugatti Atlantique
type 57 SC.
The functional needs to take all the hot air
out of the engine compartment and to create a suction
behind the car.
The most effective way how you achieve that
is a so-called cutaway rear end.
That creates sub-pressure behind the car.
An ideal aerodynamic cut off and a very clean
curvature that we see now appearing on the car.
And everything from there is finished off with
this single beam tail light that will be the future
signature for Bugatti rear end.
The overall dynamic on the Chiron comes from
the much more accentuated rear haunch line
that pushes the whole volume forward from the additional
increased wheel size that we have front and rear.
We have now 20 and 21-inch in the rear.
The door taunt aspect for Bugatti is one of the most
important DNA trademarks that we have.
It's also important that this two-tone layout
is created by the separation of body parts.
It is not just painted onto the car somewhere,
but actual that the technical building parts
are creating the two-tone split.
- The philosophy is you have fun if you really
have feelings and not only the feelings,
that you can trust your activities.
The biggest challenge for this is really
as a chief engineer for such a project of such a company
is the innovation and the requirements for such a car
is permanently much more higher is for the normal car.
Somebody explained it's not possible for us.
It has to be possible.
Inside in this car is stored 1,500 horsepowers.
And 1,580 up to 1,600 meter torque.
The improvement of the horsepowers is mainly done
by the better improvement of the turbo charges.
Bigger dimensions, better efficiency for this.
The most difficult problem to solve is the high temperature
and the easy control for the driver itself.
We installed the complete rear frame in carbon fiber.
Also in the area of the exhaust system and the turbo
charger areas that we had in the past
stainless steel structures.
Top speed, one of the biggest challenge for us,
the super sport world record is already for 471.
We have to improve this, we have to top it
in a new dimension.
The new version much more as the old one
that we say is the first of minimum more than 440.
We have to be the fastest one.
- In the 100 meter sprint in the Olympic Games
the bar is pushed out further and further every year
or every four years.
This is what happens in automotive technology as well.
Luckily, technology is developing, material science
is developing.
Simulation technologies are developing.
Computer science applications to develop new cars
is developing.
And we benefit from all of this technologies.
No matter whether you are on the handling track,
on the high-speed acceleration, or in city traffic.
The car does everything in that benchmark-like behavior.
The top speed will be remarkably higher than previously,
and the acceleration, due to the torque curve
that you experience once the car is in motion
until it approaches the 400 kilometers barrier
is undescribable.
Comes to future performance, we don't have any limitations.
We are asked to set the milestone and to define
the pinnacle of the automotive pyramid.
- We spend the most time thinking about this project.
Foremost how to create a car and a statement
that is so refined and so reduced that it will pass
the test of time.
- [Voiceover] Can you drift this car?
- Yes, it's possible.
And I do it permanently.