The Bugatti Tourbillon is the first new model since the brand was taken over by Rimac. Is it faithful to the vision of Ettore Bugatti?
In 1998, Volkswagen Group CEO Ferdinand Piëch engineered the purchase of all the assets of Bugatti in an all-stock deal valued at $50 million. Volkswagen’s goal in acquiring Bugatti was to revitalize the luxury brand and showcase its own technical expertise and innovative strength. The Bugatti Veyron first went on sale in 2005 with a 16-cylinder engine that was essentially two V-8 engines siamesed together.
Oliver Blume, who was the chief executive of Porsche at the time, acknowledged that the deal removed a distraction for Volkswagen and allowed the company to focus on more important tasks, such as shifting to production of electric vehicles and overcoming the effects of its diesel missions scandal.
Ordinarily, such a long crankshaft would have enough flex in it to wipe out all its bearings the first time the driver zinged it to its 9000 rpm redline, but Bugatti design director Frank Heyl toldthat Bugatti was able to smooth things out with extensive computer simulation and materials testing. “Since you can ignite four cylinders simultaneously, the vibrations are essentially nullified by one another,” he explained. “And that allowed us to keep the counterbalancing weights to a minimum.
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