Hmm.. Beautiful..! The one at the left side down, shows the hp right..? Does this function also come in any other car than this..?
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The 16-cylinder engine is the heart of the Veyron.
(business insider factory tour)
And it's journey starts here: VW's Salzgitter engine plant.
This is, without a doubt, one of the largest engine factories in the world
Yet the Veyron's engine is assembled by hand in a tiny room
The bespoke titanium and aluminum parts are delivered by hand in sealed, padded cases.
Each piston is carved out of solid aluminum.
The engine is actually a W configuration. This is two V8 engines bolted together.
It takes craftsmen one week to complete a single Veyron engine.
To test it, they ran it on a dyno for the first time in 2001.
There, it produced the magical 1000 horsepower, and then some.
It actually made 3000 horsepower, 2/3 of which was heat. The building almost burned to the ground.
When the car was first tested on the road, it had 6 foot flames shooting out the back at 200 MPH. That isn't exactly legal.
So they upped the cooling capacity. Each Veyron has 10 radiators.
Italian company Riccardo was contracted to make the gearbox.
While it is common now, this was one of the earlier applications of a dual-clutch unit
They could make it go, but could they make it stop?