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The Bugatti Veyron is one of 201 Bugatti models in the MotorJury library, the catalogue that sets out to hold every car ever made — production, prototype and concept alike. The record places its introduction in 2005. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.
To read the Bugatti Veyron properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 2000s were the decade of electronics — stability control, dual-clutch gearboxes and the first serious hybrids arrived while platform-sharing consolidated the industry into a handful of giants. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Aston Martin Aston Martin Vantage, the Audi AG Audi Q7, the Kia Kia Sportage — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.
On paper, the Bugatti Veyron reads like this: the record lists its engine as 7993 cc quad-turbocharged Volkswagen W16; quoted output is Standard (Coupé), Grand Sport (Roadster): 1001 PS / Super Sport (Coupé), Grand Sport Vitesse (Roadster): 882.3 kW; kerb weight is recorded at 1838-1990 kg; top speed is given as 408.47 km/h; drive goes through 7-speed Ricardo dual-clutch automatic; the layout is Mid-engine, all-wheel drive. Worked together, those figures give roughly 545 horsepower per tonne — the single number that says more about how a car actually moves than any of its parts alone. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear. Production is recorded at 450 units, which makes it a genuine rarity — most enthusiasts will never see one in person.
Within Bugatti's own catalogue the Bugatti Veyron sits alongside the Bugatti 57 Galibier, the Bugatti 8-cylinder line, the Bugatti Centodieci, the Bugatti Type 13. The record names the Bugatti EB 110 as its predecessor and the Bugatti Chiron as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to Jozef Kabaň. Assembly is recorded at France: Alsace, Molsheim.
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