Heavyweight credibility

Bugatti’s official story is that the seed of the Veyron was planted in 1997. VW Group boss Ferdinand Piëch and his powertrain chief Karl-Heinz Neumann were on a Japanese train brewing up engine ideas.

TopGear: We heard that many years ago you had sketched a ‘Veyron facelift’ that never came to be. Is that true? Tell us the story. Frank Heyl: Yes, there was an inbetween stage. We were working on the

Either someone just collapsed a wormhole in the spacetime continuum and bunched up the past 20 years, or Bugatti is messing with our tiny little minds. Turns out it’s the latter, because if you though

Last week a couple of separate but related events unfolded in the world of Monopoly-money cars. Bugatti revealed an impressive Chiron-based Veyron 2.0, while across the Atlantic, in Florida, somebody

I SUCCUMBED. OR, as younger people say, I caved. I’d been looking at my Phantom’s bodywork (the victim of a blow-over respray prior to my renewed ownership, after a white ‘wrap’ was removed) and alway

WHEN YOU TURNED THE PAGE DID YOU, JUST FOR A fleeting moment, think you were looking at a Bugatti Veyron? A Veyron but different somehow; a little sharper, a little more modern. Almost like a facelift