This month Bright handsome Bugatti Veyron 16. 4 Grand Sport finally dropped the mystery bedspread on the ultra-exclusive PEBBLE Beach Concours d’Elegance. This new model has become the long-awaited Veyron Targa version and goes with a removable polycarbonate roof-exactly that, by the tacit recognition of Bugatti, was far from easy task in realization. The problem was born in the fact that the fixed roof of the hard -top Veyron is a vital part of the car’s design, both in terms of the driver’s protection means from strokes and in the understanding of torsion hardness (paramount importance at 1000 liters. With.), therefore, I had to make significant changes to the design of the machine to get Grand Sport with an open top. To begin with, the monocock was reinforced around the side fairings and the tunnel above the gearbox and a cardan gear with the addition of carbon fiber boards; Doors are also created from carbon fiber (replacing aluminum) and contain longitudinal beams that can take on a significant part of the impact force during the accident. Finally, expressive double air intakes, rising above the body and picking up air for the massive W16 engine, were reinforced by a carbonate that provides protection in the case of turning. As a result, according to the company’s statements, Bugatti received the toughest (from the point of view of torsion hardness) Roadster in the world. Когда на машину установлена крыша случайный наблюдатель с трудом сможет сказать в чем заключаются изменения. Take a closer look and you will see that the windshield of a completely new design and was planted slightly higher to give the smoothness of the line of the roof line. The space in Veyron is quite limited, so as soon as the Targa-Clot was removed, there will be no room in the car to take it with them, so the owners will have to leave the roof of the house and hope that it will not rain. If the clouds are thickened over you, then you will have the following options: a) get wet or b) use a relatively primitive swimmer cunning device “A la Umbrella”, stored in the front luggage compartment and used only in extreme cases. With such an umbrella, you can safely continue your journey if you do not accelerate to 130 km/h. With a rigid top, the maximum speed is steadily held by 407 km/h, but as soon as it is removed, the speed is electronically reduced “only” to 360 km/h/h. The first cars will leave the plant in the spring of 2009 and will cost wishing 1. 3 million pounds, 280 thousand pounds are more than with a non -removable hard roof. On many faces, the news about the planned number of Grand Sport, which Bugatti is going to build in surprise. Up to this point, the company announced the intention to build only 300 Veyron, but now 150 Grand Sport (and only 45, at the time of writing, are not ordered) have been added to this figure). Since only 80 machines can be built in the Bugatti plant, production should have been stretched for the next two years, and now it will end somewhere by 2012. How it will affect the busy Veyron market so far remains unknown. Harry Metalf
