Bugatti Veyron dominates 0 - 100mph - 0 contest

[vexor]

The Bugatti Veyron has wiped the floor with the opposition in Autocar’s annual 0-100-0mph contest, featured in the current issue of the magazine, even managing to beat a Suzuki GSX-R1000 superbike!

Featuring 25 of the world’s fastest cars, from the 14th placed £79,995 Aston Martin V8 Vantage to the second-placed £34,995 Ariel Atom, the shoot-out pitches the cars against each other in a straight fight to see which is the fastest to 100mph. There’s more to it than just outright speed though – slowing from 100mph to a dead halt is just as important.

The Veyron, with its 987bhp 16-cylinder engine, wasn’t necessarily the favourite to win. "A low weight tends to be the key to a good 0-100-0mph car," said Autocar’s road test editor Adam Towler. "Cars like the Ariel Atom and Caterham Superlight historically dominate this contest."

But the 1890kg £880,000 Bugatti ripped through the gears to hit 60mph in 2.8sec and 100mph in an astonishing 5.5sec. It then stopped in just 3.4sec, giving a 0-100-0mph time of 9.9sec.

(It's worth pointing out that the overall world record is still held by the Ultima GTR, which can do the same sprint in 9.4 seconds).

Not only is the Bugatti faster than the Suzuki, it creates more g-force at maximum acceleration than you’d experience in an F-16 jet fighter at take off or when skydiving.

But the lightweights still turned in an impressive performance, from the relatively unknown £32k Brooke Double R in fourth place to the £35k Ariel Atom 300 in second.

"Although the Veyron is undoubtedly the quickest road car ever, you can still have nearly as much fun for much less money," said Adam Towler. "It’s good to see British sports cars doing so well against such an impressive machine as the Bugatti."

Autocar also brought along an A1 GP car, driven by Brit Robbie Kerr, to see how a purpose-built race car would compare with road-going machinery. The 550bhp single seater weighs just 695kg, and proved to be the fastest vehicle on the day with a 0-100-0mph time of 8.4sec.

[No Boss]

..... Cool. That's what I was expecting to hear.

I like that green color.

/that is all
//ready yourself for the debates & fanboys.
/// <-fanboy.

[mancs]

OMG I would never had thought that the heavy Veyron can do something like that

[Xeon SX]

2.8 to 60? not 2.5 to 62 as they claim...

[bartboy9891]

pretty impressive, 9.9 is much better than i was expecting.
thats more than twice as fast as the time the GTI with DSG can do it in!

[Blind_Io]

it creates more g-force at maximum acceleration than you’d experience ... when skydiving.

Duh, that's because you are in freefall, you goof!

[DarkReaper]

1G of acceleration is nothing to be laughed at.

[Ez]

this is why Jeremy said dont think of it as a car think of it like Concorde its just such a huge step forward.

-- Ez

[TheCleaner]

Originally Posted by Xeon SX

2.8 to 60? not 2.5 to 62 as they claim...

as you can see its quoted to having 987bhp as opposed to the 1001 which might explain is slighty slower (laughable to use the word slow at all) 0-60

[BlaRo]

Originally Posted by TheCleaner

as you can see its quoted to having 987bhp as opposed to the 1001 which might explain is slighty slower (laughable to use the word slow at all) 0-60

They've already clarified this. The 1001 figure comes from the European scale, which is slightly different than the American scale of 987hp. But VW says the engine is producing somewhere between 1001 and 1051hp (European scale), so 1000hp is accurate in both cases.

[petraman]

I've heard from a few magazines that the real-world horsepower of the Veyron is 1100-1200

[BerserkerCatSplat]

Originally Posted by petraman

I've heard from a few magazines that the real-world horsepower of the Veyron is 1100-1200

HP varies wildly by elevation and temperature, especially at such high numbers.

[Blythy]

someone can't add, 5.5 + 3.4 = 8.9s

[Ez]

when your talking about that larger amount of power the difference in fuel octane between counties could even be the difference.

-- Ez

[Ultra_Kool_Dude]

Originally Posted by Blythy

someone can't add, 5.5 + 3.4 = 8.9s

lol

5.5 to get to 100mph from zero

[gazza]

I could beat that, in fact I think I could do it in a little over 5.5 seconds, just find a solid enough wall.......

[MadCow809]

the A1 pomped!!!

[mmap]

I HATE THAT THEY NO LONGER SELL AUTOCAR IN FINLAND!!!


So thank you for this info!

[youngwarrior]

Originally Posted by Xeon SX

2.8 to 60? not 2.5 to 62 as they claim...

Thats just the time autocar achieved on the day, times will always vary due to variables

[oliB]

Originally Posted by youngwarrior

Thats just the time autocar achieved on the day, times will always vary due to variables

QFT

Originally Posted by Blythy

someone can't add, 5.5 + 3.4 = 8.9s

Wait, so the Veyron is actually half a second quicker then the stripped-out "racecar" (I know it's road legal) Ultima GTR? That would be a new world record.

Go Bugatti!