And in one early passage, Neil, whose column is titled Rumble Seat, writes:
“The Super Sport can accelerate from highway speeds to more than 200 mph in the time it takes you to read this sentence out loud. Literally.”
“And then, just when other hypercars—Lambos, Ferraris, Paganis and even rarer isotopes—run out of steam, the Super Sport accelerates harder. This experience quickly exhausts one’s supply of Old Norse oaths and curses and one is reduced to childish wows and holy cows.”
“At full throttle in the Super Sport, the world comes at you in one ferocious, howling, soul-shaking, Newtonian sneeze.”
Here are some facts and figures about the 2011 Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport:
Price: $2.8 million (estimated) Horsepower: 1,200 horsepower at 6,400 rpm Curb weight: 4,043.6 pounds Acceleration: 0-100km (62 mph): 2.5 seconds; 0-300km (186 mph), 14.6 seconds. Top speed: 268 mph EPA fuel economy: 9 mpg (city); 11 mpg (hwy) Cargo space: 3 cubic feet
To read Dan Neil’s full account of this test drive of the Bugatti Super Sport, visit: Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport
James Raia
A sports, travel and business journalist for more than 45 years, James has written the new car review column The Weekly Driver since 2004. In addition to founding this site in 2004, James writes a Sunday automotive column for The San Jose Mercury and East Bay Times in Walnut Creek, Calif., and monthly auto review and wellness columns for Gulfshore Business, a magazine in Southwest Florida. An author and contributor to many newspapers, magazines and online publications, co-hosted The Weekly Driver Podcast from 2017 to 2024.