The Bugatti Chiron is not a car; instead, it's a nearly useless dazzling object -- the rolling equivalent of the bejeweled Easter eggs made for two czars of Russia by Peter Carl Faberge. The Chiron exists only because a megalomaniacal modern czar issued an imperious edict that it should exist, cost no object. The Chiron, itself a Volkswagen Group product, is about far as you can get from a purely functional, utilitarian automobile like the KdF Volkswagen or a Ford Model T.
Its construction quality is surpassingly fine, and it is enormously impressive in that the bulky mechanical mass within its shell produces 1,500 horsepower (with more to come, they say) and can do so for about 8 minutes before it has consumed all the fuel the car can carry. But there's no way around the fact that an egregiously overpowered 16-cylinder, 2-metric-ton, 250-plus mph two-seater is an absolutely absurd device. |
