There is a moment, a few seconds of Jay Lino’s engine in Bugati W16 Mistral, when he tends to suffocate and laugh, as approximately 1,600 hp comes to life behind him, wasting a whisper like jet turbines, and rises, “This looks like a maiata,” not because the error is the light or smart response with the light movement that your mind forgets the moments of the physics concerned. After all, the CHIRON -based Roadster holds the record for the fastest open production car in the world, set by the Bugatti and Wallace test driver.
This particular example appeared on the Audrain Museum Channel with Leno’s long -standing friend, Donald Osborne, Riding rifle. The drive is more than just a display of mechanical power, but the celebration of the final and romantic development of the Bugatti W16 engine now, a layout that another car maker has not dared to explore to this range, and has applied all the modern Buguti since the appearance of Veyroons nearly two decades ago. It is also a moment like this for this PowerPlant where the upcoming Bugatti Tourbillon will contain V16.
Of course, a few of them are eligible to evaluate the sinner more than Jay Lino himself, a man who is contradicted by his own collection of entire museums and not only a type of Bugatti 51 1931 but also a replica of type 57 SC Atlantic. You have also seen that the French teenager appears countless times on the Gay Lino garage.
These machines work as live ties between the golden age in Bugatti and their account in the late nineties and early first decade of the twentieth century. Lino has long admired the W16 platform for her mixture of brutal power and engineering excellence, but here, in The Mistral, he seemed to have really surprised the arrival of architecture since he was amazed by the original Veyron and they first see the world.
Mistral model, the first open model of Bugatti since Veyron Grand Sport, is not a quick reformulation. As we previously informed, each example of Mistral is subject to the dynamic verification of both the road and the path, as the engineers pay each car to the limits of its performance before approval of it for delivery. The process includes a high -speed stability test, a thermal cycling, and the active air components control. This hard protocol guarantees that this excessive five million dollars leads to the performance of Care as it is completely intended, long Before arriving at one of the world partner’s agents in Bugatti.
As Leno and Osborne Cruise, they are reflected in the development of Bugatti under the Volkswagen collection, a group of bold vision of Ferdinand Beach to revive the woman with a strong car, honor it, and very luxurious and very complex, so that his engineers are initially called impossible. We have registered the same legacy in our in -depth coverage of Pierre Veron, the LE MANS award, which highlights the name Bugatti in the modern era. Pierre Veron 1928 was 37A owned by Jay, who also inspired “Le California” Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse.
The paradox, of course, is that Veyron led a company, in its original incarnation, simplicity of lightweight above all. But with poor credit, it does not carry such contradictions. It is bold, brutally fast, and without a shadow of doubt, it cannot be denied by Bugatti. To learn more Jay Lino’s impressions and ideas on W16 Mistral, see the full drive in the video below.
Source: Audrain Museum Network, Bugatti