BUGATTI CHIRON Review + Thoughts

Hello comrades boys and girls and all my friends all around the world and as you may have guessed by the title of this video and by this magnificent piece of engineering behind me today is a rather unconventional type of video that we're going to shoot namely the reviewing of this amazing piece of engineering the Bugatti Chiron. Before we proceed let me address two important points as a type of a disclaimer. First of all this is not a vlog kind of thing and having said that this is the first time that i'm reviewing a car in particular ever actually because well if you don't take into account the all the stupid reviews of top five from launch live that i've ever done as boosted boris i never done any serious car review so if you like it make sure to like it and to tell me that you like it and if i suck at it let me know it as well and second important disclaimer it's minus 30 outside it's like middle of winter in russia so we're not going to drive because the last thing i want to do is become famous on some stupid dashcam video where a lot on some summer tires is going to crash into this car i'll try not to bore you with all kind of boring facts because this car has been presented in geneva last year and last year is only like slightly more than a week ago i'm pretty sure by now you well most of my audience knows a lot about this car all the technical details and so on and so on so i'll try to tell you something about the things that i like in particular let's start of course with the engine the w how much 16 exactly because 2 times 8 2 times v8 makes it 16 and for turbochargers what i like about it in particular is that bugatti said in 2015 in geneva motor show when they produced the last la finale version of veyron they said that the next car which is by now chiron is still going to use the same type of drivetrain without any hybrid now i must say it's quite an interesting feat or feature to do today because right now if you look at the holy trinity the 918 the la ferrari the p1 they all utilize the hybrid drivetrains and with especially 918 it's porsche which is also owned well a part of the volkswagen audi group to which bugatti belongs they do have the access to the same technology if not even better so they could have done this but they said you know what all of our customers said they want the traditional drivetrain hmm i wonder what they mean by traditional telling about the w16 engine with 1500 horsepower yeah traditional but yeah although they say that the engine is the same as the veron the only thing that is the same is the actual layout which is a w16 like i mentioned earlier however by increasing the power output by 25 and knowing since i am well i do some stuff with tuning industry and so on when you increase the power output by 25 you pretty much need to change everything to achieve the durability so although the outline is still the same it's basically completely new engine and the gearbox is also faster so they've changed pretty much everything actually one more thing i want to tell you the name chiron actually was first used in 1999 in the concept bugatti chiron 18 3 and 18 stood for the amount of cylinders because instead of using w16 they used a w18 and that meant three inline six engines that would have been interesting because there are a lot of great cars made with this outline cylinder outline like for example the e46 beam w or the nissan skyline the toyota supra so three of those could have been quite interesting but they didn't do it and the final thing that i want to tell about this engine is the interesting turbo setup that they've incorporated in this engine because although it has four turbos only two work at the lower rpm and all the four work at the high rpm because those turbos are actually 69 boosted boros would have made a funny joke about being 69 are actually 69 bigger than the veron and that would create a bigger turbo lag so yeah to eliminate that they changed this well while we're still at the back side let's check it out more and what i like in particular is this well one piece of aluminum which is i think 1.8 meters and that's quite a feat and i must say when the veron was released and even still now i never liked the styling i never liked the styling of initial veron because it was like nah for me it was i must say it was like a fat cow this is definitely not the case with this and maybe the thing is that this car was designed by a russian guy named sasha selipanov and maybe because he's russian i like the russian design so also the more aggressive styling and especially the rear okay one more thing on the side are those wheels and actually we can talk about the whole styling here the wheels here those in particular are baseline wheels what does baseline wheels mean because you can actually order special carter wheels which cost 50 000 euros extra per set and if you want to paint them in additional color or have them diamond cut it will well cost you additional 10 000 so 60 000 euros for the best options of wheels which is quite crazy so this is actually not the character this is more the baseline wheels i'll put the picture of a character wheel somewhere here so you can check it one of the most actually the most expensive extra that you can order on this car is having the bodywork in full carbon fiber and that would cost you 250 000 euros extra yeah 250 000 euros as a matter of fact that's even more than twice as much than having a full carbon fiber bodywork for a pagani because i think it costs 115 000 euros and you would think isn't that much but when a car costs 2.4 million euros in base that's only 10 percent of extra price and when you get for example a simple bmw or even like a mercedes or whatever and you tick off tick on all the option lists it will increase the base price by more than 10 percent and final having said that on average the owner of a bugatti has 42 other cars in the garage and like one airplane and so on so 250 000 euros extra that's nothing so i think let's move on to the interior part and i must say one of the first things that i like so much about this car is its accessibility as you may know by now i've been in a lot of supercars hypercars and all the race cars and so on and the problem with those is actually the way that you have to access them they're very low they have a high carbon fiber top or something similar with this it's definitely not the case as you may have seen well probably not because the way that i'm filming the getting in is very easy and when you pay for a car about between two two and a half and three and a half million euros that's definitely a nice feature another thing that i want to talk with you about is the design let's save this for the last probably let's talk about those things and actually what you see is what you don't see because the design is very minimalistic and that was also the case with the veron but now it's even more for example here you only have four buttons to regulate the climate control settings and that's it all the other information is displayed here and i like it a lot because like even again if you compare it with a porsche which is owned by volkswagen audi group you have this in the 19 you have this crazy display with all the buttons the panamera has a lot buttons it became less with the new panamera but still you get my point and i like it a lot and actually bugatti has told i still have to find out at some point i cannot verify but bugatti has told that actually the faster that you drive the less of those things become visible so the lights switch off and you only see the display which says 500 kilometers an hour the thing is bugatti this chiron goes 380 kilometers top speed but if you have this this key and if you plug it in in here it goes slightly faster which is 420 and that is electronically limited because the full top speed is actually if you take off the limiter with it would go 463 according to bugatti and if you know that the fastest version of the veron goes 431 ish kilometers you would ask why 420 i cannot answer that but the reason that bugatti games is actually very funny because out of safety reasons and i'm like hmm safety reasons yeah it's totally safe to drive 420 kilometers on public roads or then again this it's one thing that i would actually really question why would you need an additional key to go 40 kilometers faster i mean it's a nice gimmick of course it's definitely one of the most remarkable features that you need the extra key and so on but how practical is it you could also have a menu i mean what you can also crash if you're a well let's be honest if you're a shitty driver you can you don't need to go 300 plus or 400 plus kilometers an hour to crash a car that can even 100 kilometers an hour is enough and that's usually the case when you press this button which is the launch control and you just go 0 to 100 usually in two and a half or faster seconds but you go 0 to 50 just in the barrier because you cannot control the car and yes of course bugatti says that the car is very controllable but you know you get my point i find this a pretty questionable thing as well as above 420 kilometers not being safe but that's a thing to speculate about because it could be that bugatti is hiding something from us because the speed world record attempt is going to be only in 2018 which is next year from now on and the car was released last year and uh the record attempt for the was done actually at the in the same year as the car was introduced so if you would compare those two sayings i would say that this car is currently still in development at least that's those are my two cents what else can i tell you about this car for example those handles they remind me a lot to porsche they are similar to it and the speakers i must say something about the speakers for all the guys who love the audio because the speakers they have a one carat diamond membrane and if you are not that into audio the harder the membrane of the speaker is the purer the sound is so they say that is like the most pure sound that you can get and i'm pretty sure that's the true it should be the case when you pay so much what else can i say i actually like this feature over here you can actually hang up your coat on the back and actually the first time you can store airline approved suitcase in the trunk which is in the front of the car obviously that's an interesting feature pretty nice i'm not sure how often you would use this car to go to the airport and park it on a long-term parking and fly away for a couple of weeks and that's it but you get my point that's quite a nice feat other than that probably some final thoughts before we wrap it up start it up for you if we look at the Veyron 2005 it didn't have much of a competition back then you only had you had nothing yes of course you had Koenigsegg you had Pagani but they were more or less in their early development years and they didn't have those crazy power and speed outputs as they have today so when the Veyron was released it was called the car of the decade by Top Gear and they're pretty much right because god damn the car set a freaking standard by going 400 plus kilometers an hour and being more or less everyday car well actually the not everyday car because of the running cost something that we still need to see about the Chiron because we didn't know them because well they're only being delivered currently and this car in fact i forgot to mention is i've seen this car before and this car was used in Le Mans something i've been to and something that still needs to be displayed in the current vlog series another thing about customers i'm currently in Moscow and the fun fact is this car will never be registered in Moscow because to have a car registered in Moscow you need to have two additional crash tests and all the customers of the Veyron they actually never ever well there was one case who was registered in the Moscow but all the others have registered in somewhere outside in Monaco and so on so the Chiron officially will not be sold officially in Moscow well it will be sold but not to be registered in Russia just an interesting detail where was i yes talking about Veyron it was as a benchmark but today Chiron has a lot and a lot of competition starting with the Holy Trinity although they are like more yes they are hyper cars but not in the same price range as Koenigsegg or Bugatti and having said that Bugatti has a pretty tough job to do to kick competition's ass for the coming 10 years because they said there's going to be 500 models of the Chiron going to be produced and that's pretty much 10 years because they produce on average one engine per week 50 weeks a year times 10 that means 500 engines so today it's a very remarkable car but in the coming years they will need to come up with updates because the competition isn't standing still either and i'm very excited to see what this car is going to perform especially on the Nurburgring but yeah as we know by the Veyron it's not meant to be driven crazy on the track although Bugatti is saying that it could be the case