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Bugatti has their sights set on unseating Ferrari as the world’s supercar manufacturer. On the heels of the VW-built Veyron, comes Project Lydia, named for Bugatti’s wife.
We thought the Bugatti Veyron Pur Sang was ridiculously priced at $2 million, but Project Lydia is a $3 million dollar ubercar with around 1175 horsepower… and yes, it’s street legal!
It’s designed like a European road-course race car rather than a grocery-getter.
Just when we thought the Lamborghini Reventón was the most expensive and most exclusive car, we see the new Bugatti Veyron Pur Sang. Only five have been made and they are each already sold. The price: £1,000,000. The main difference between the Pur Sang and the standard £800,000 Veyron is t… [More]
Whereas the Veyron, for all its enormous, time-bending power and speed, was designed as a comfortable grant tourer, the new model would be a tighter, more track-focused supercar. Power would likely come from a retuned version of the Veyron's 8-liter quad-turbo W16, which was long reported to be under-rated in its power production of 1000 hp, and is tipped to produce 1175 hp in the new version. Artistic renderings from German magazine Auto Motor und Sport depict the car with styling more akin to a Le Mans racer, with a protruding front splitter and an enormous rear wing.
(autoblog)
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