Bugatti Veyron Black Bess: a tribute to the Type 18

Posted on 10-04-2014 at 12:47 by sir_smokalot – 25 Comments”

Bugatti unveils the fifth part of his hexologie ‘Les Légendes the Bugatti‘, a beautiful black-and-gold Veyron that the Type 18 “Black Bess” honors.

As well as that of his predecessors, excels also, this Veyron is perhaps not in originality (it remains a variant on a known concept), but it is undeniably a work of art with great attention to detail. Moreover, you can get with the combination black-gold is almost not go wrong.

The Type 18 “Black Bess” was one of the first straatlegale racing cars, which has a top speed of 160 km/h which is impressive. In the early ’10’s of the last century recorded Etorre Bugatti himself several’s racing success.

The Veyron that there arose from it, there is of course one of the type of the Grand Sport Vitesse (the compartments are long and wide out of print), with 1,200 horsepower in the barrel. There will be 3 copies made, à 2.15 million euros per piece. Notice the detail of the hand painted parts in the interior. You can be sure to find what you want, but truss is the.

Next week will debut the next-to-last Veyron from the Légendes series in Beijing on the China Car 2014, accompanied by a Type 18. This 100-horsepower 5-liter 4-cylinder twaalfklepper was between 1912 and 1914, and is now (over) a century old.

Gallery: Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse Black Bess

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