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The Bugatti Divo is a mid-engine track-focused sports car developed and manufactured by Bugatti Automobiles S.A.S. The car is named after French racing driver Albert Divo , who raced for Bugatti in the 1920s winning the Targa Florio race twice. [ 3 ]
The Bugatti WR16 is a quad-turbocharged, W16 engine, manufactured under the high-performance luxury sports car marque Bugatti, since 2005. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Volkswagen is a shareholder of Bugatti stock and shares in the profits of Bugatti products as of 2024.
During development, the car suffered numerous engine problems, and on test drives, driver Pierre Macoin would frequently end up broken down on the side of the road. To avoid any unwanted publicity, Bugatti decided that they would fit the prototype engine under the hood of a Bugatti Type 73 saloon. Later though, both the engine and chassis of ...
The bespoke hypercar is limited to just 40 completely unique examples.
The Le Mans circuit in 1931. The 1931 24 Hours of Le Mans was the 9th Grand Prix of Endurance that took place at the Circuit de la Sarthe on 13 and 14 June 1931.. With the demise of Bentley, the favourite for an outright victory was split between the Bugatti and Alfa Romeo works teams, with a lone privateer Mercedes as an outside chance.
2005–2024 Bugatti Veyron engine. A W16 engine is a sixteen-cylinder piston engine with four banks of four cylinders in a W configuration.. W16 engines are rarely produced, with the notable exception of the Volkswagen Group 8.0 WR16 engine, which has been used since 2005 in the Bugatti Veyron, Bugatti Chiron and their related models.
Bugatti Divo at the 2018 Paris Motor Show In July 2018, Bugatti announced that it would build 40 units of the Divo hypercar, a track-focused vehicle based on the Chiron. [ 38 ] [ 39 ] The cars, at a net unit price of €5 million (5.27 million US$), were sold within days. [ 40 ]
Chiron was second, only two minutes behind after 7 hours of hard racing. Conelli got up to third for Bugatti ahead of Campari (delayed by gearbox problems) and Nuvolari (with suspension issues). All five cars beat Divo's time from the previous year with Varzi dropping the race record by 20 minutes. [57] [58]