- Bugatti customers asked the company to build a car that handles better, one that's not just for driving as fast as possible. The result is the new Chiron Pur Sport.
- The car emphasizes cornering rather than top speed, and Bugatti says it should be more nimble and agile than the standard Chiron.
- The Pur Sport is both lighter and stiffer than the regular Chiron, and it also has a six-foot-wide rear spoiler that helps keep the car planted to the ground at high speeds.
- It has the same 1,500-horsepower, quad-turbocharged, 16-cylinder engine as the standard Chiron, but a lower top speed of 217 mph.
- Bugatti only plans to build 60 Chiron Pur Sports, and each car will retail for approximately $3.3 million.
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Bugatti, the company that made its name building wildly fast supercars with seven-figure price tags, unveiled a new, unexpected version of its Chiron supercar on March 3.
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The $3 million Bugatti Chiron doesn't need improving upon the supercar serves up 1,500 horsepower, almost 1,200 pound-feet of torque, a 261-mph top speed, and a claimed 0-60 time of just 2.3 seconds. Heck, in some specs, the Chiron is the fastest production car on the planet.
But Bugatti owners can be fickle they can certainly afford to be and when they demanded a car that handled better, Bugatti got to work.
That's the origin story, Bugatti says, of the new Chiron Pur Sport, a more driver-focused Chiron that's built for intense, high-speed cornering rather than outright acceleration or top speed.
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To transform the Chiron from a speed demon into the handling machine that is the Pur Sport, Bugatti shaved off some weight, stiffened up the suspension, tweaked the transmission, and added an enormous, fixed spoiler to keep everything planted firmly to the ground. All the changes meant that in a very un-Bugatti-like move the company had to cut the Chiron's electronically limited top speed down to 217 mph.
The Bugatti Chiron Pur Sport costs roughly $3.3 million, and only 60 of them will be produced scroll down to learn more.
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