Can the Bugatti Chiron shiftthe motoring world on its axis in the way its predecessor did?
FOR a car that makes a big noise about going fast, the Bugatti Chiron does a great job of going slowly. Slow, of course, is a relative concept. At 200 km/h, the kind of speed when your average fast car is starting to breathe a little heavy, the Chiron’s cabin is an oasis of calm, your foot treading as lightly on the right pedal as a pond skater dancing on the water’s surface.
“Okay, you can start picking up some speed now just to get ready,” my co-driver Loris tells me gently from the other side of the carbon septum that divides the passenger compartment. There’s a brow in the motorway ahead and traffic in the slow lane to the right. But I lean into the pedal because I trust Loris. Bugatti trusts Loris. So does Lamborghini. And Pagani and Koenigsegg. Loris Bicocchi is the go-to man for supercar dynamic tuning.
But does Loris trust me? How must it feel to sit beside a stranger knowing you’re about to give them the okay to unleash 1 103 kW and do their absolute damndest to go as fast as physically possible on a public road in a car that’s electronically limited to 420 km/h?
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