The Chiron may be impractical, but the engineering on this car is superb. To be in the same class as the Chiron, a car would have to have 16 cylinders, four turbos, and a carbon fiber body.
More than 60,000 liters (15,850 gallons) of air get forced through the engine every minute by the Chiron’s turbochargers and the torque curve is flat, with 1,180 lb-ft of torque made between 2,000 and 6,000 rpm.
The Chiron is built on a fully carbon-fiber unibody, unlike the Veyron whose rear section was also steel. (Somehow, the Veyron is still over 100 pounds lighter). Bugatti says “If all the fibres used in the monocoque were laid out end to end, they would stretch nine times the distance between the earth and the moon,” and that the
monocoque takes four whole weeks to make.
To cope with the heat produced by the engine, the Chiron’s got a water pump that
pumps about 200 gallons per minute through one main radiator and two auxiliary radiators. There’s also a 12-liter low temperature cooling loop for the intercooler. Add the three engine oil coolers, the transmission oil cooler, the hydraulic oil cooler and the rear diff cooler, and the Chiron’s got a
total of 10 radiators.
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