LEGO masters of the world, listen up! The Series 19 update of Forza Horizon 4 introduces us to our newest addition of the LEGO Speed Champions range and if you got your hands on the FH4 LEGO Speed Champions expansion and fully built your Master Builder's House, a new challenger awaits you...
Yes, it says Chiron but don't be fooled because our newest LEGO friend on the valley is none other than, you guessed it, a Bugatti Chiron!
The latest addition of the LEGO Speed Champions fleet is yours to unlock by beating the newly added LEGO Bugatti Chiron Speed Champions race, where you will be driving this against a real Bugatti Chiron. In case you're wondering, here's the clip that sums it up really good.
The LEGO Speed Champions Bugatti Chiron is the kind of LEGO Speed Champions car you won't find anywhere else in the catalog because as far as I know it, it only exists in the FH4 LEGO Speed Champions world, although a similar LEGO version of the Bugatti Chiron is somewhere out in the open but only a handful of LEGO masters can assemble a moving Chiron by themselves. Of course, we've seen lots of LEGO masters built a life-sized LEGO version of the Chiron as well as a LEGO Technic version of it but for the Speed Champions Chiron, this LEGO-fined version of Bugatti's latest hypercar is awesomeness to the next level. It maybe in LEGO form but it still works like a Bugatti Chiron. Sounds like one too.
To see if it lives up to its name, I've lined up some LEGO cars at the drag strip and then set off for a drag race. Roll the tape.
Bugatti and LEGO are an incomparable partnership like no other and although they made two different things, they share the same goal and this LEGO-fied Bugatti Chiron is what pushed this collaboration to stratospheric heights.
Enjoy this LEGO-fied Chiron when you got your hands on it because you're going to need it.
Bugatti's latest masterpiece, the Chiron, tries so hard to follow the footsteps of the legendary Veyron in terms of speed and beauty. While speed is the true beauty of the Chiron, the only flaw in this million euro masterpiece is handling due to the extra-extra-large size the speed king possess.
Which is why Bugatti went to the drawing board and made up with their greatest combination that brings the best of both worlds.
Here's a question; what ultra-rare masterpiece Bugatti made promises to be better than the Chiron rather than speed and elegance? If you said the Divo, then you're right.
This is the Bugatti Divo, a Bugatti that not only enjoys going fast on the straights but also in the corners as well and I got this from the recent series update's Autumn Horizon Playlist. Before having a few dibs about the Divo, let's have a little X-file on Bugatti's ultimate track toy.
Unveiled at the exclusive automotive event in Monterey, California, the Bugatti Divo, named after two-time Targa Florio winner Albert Divo, is the ultimate track toy that is made for one purpose; handling. While it comes with the same 8.0L W16 engine from the Chiron with 1,500PS of power output, the Divo weighs 35kgs lighter and has 90kg more downforce than the normal Chiron, resulting to 1.6G of lateral acceleration and top speed of 380kph. It lapped the Nardo track eight seconds faster than the Chiron.
All 40 Divos have been already been sold before the world premiere and each Divo is coachbuilt to customer specifications, marking a return of Bugatti's tradition.
As I took the spin with the Divo, the way it behaves truly exceeds my expectations, leaving track-only heavyweights like the Aston Martin Vulcan and the Pagani Zonda R scratching their heads. As a matter of fact, the Divo really is incredibly easy to drive and it almost doesn't care about understeering and oversteering at all because corners are the Divo's best friend. With the Divo, you will spend lots and lots of time driving through the bends with confidence and you will never stop driving it until you are fully satisfied with it.
To test this theory, I went to LEGO Valley and unleash the dancing Divo to the world, just to show how Bugatti's special machine is capable of.
Roll the tape...
Nearly perfect but you get the point.
The Bugatti Divo has proven to be a solid all-rounder, being a hypercar that not only drives fast in the straights but also on the corners as well, and they are very wise to create a no-nonsense hypercar that does all the things that the Chiron couldn't do.
So, would you prefer the Divo over the Chiron or any of the track-only monsters like the Vulcan and the Zonda R? The choice is yours.
Molsheim's newest force without master is now under the command of every Forza Motorsport 7 player because due to inconsistent public demand, the newest Bugatti hypercar, the Chiron is now secured by the game's Dell Gaming Car Pack and now, it's time for its key to release its power and grace under my command.
Before getting my dibs on Bugatti's newest hypercar, let's take a quick explanation about the Chiron, okay? Okay, when the Veyron's reign is finished, Bugatti's prepared for its new heir to the predecessor's throne. Enter the Chiron, the most powerful, fastest, most luxurious and most exclusive production super sports car in the world. Premiered at the 2016 Geneva Motor Show, the Chiron is the latest generation of the ultimate sports car and it's all new from the ground up.
The Chiron's new 8.0L W16 quad-turbo engine with two-stage turbocharging produces 1,500HP of power, a first for a road car, and 1,600Nm of torque, mated to a specifically-developed seven-speed dual-clutch gearbox featuring the largest, highest-performance clutch fitted to a passenger car. It is capable of accelerating from standstill to 400kph to none in 41.96 seconds and in its top speed mode, the Chiron is capable of 420kph (261mph) of top speed limited for road use.
Apart from its feral performance, the Chiron features an extremely high rigidity monocoque, an adaptive chassis for significantly greater agility and driving comfort, new high-performance tyres, new F1-inspired high-performance brakes, an intelligent air intake management for better aerodynamics, and heat shield for the best brake cooling, among many others all rolled up into one handcrafted masterpiece.
The Chiron is produced at Bugatti's Molsheim HQ and up to 500 units to be made, each costing 2.4 million euros.
In a Series 24 episode of Top Gear, Chris Harris checks out the Bugatti Chiron and engaged on an epic race across the Middle East against Matt LeBlanc taking all sorts of vehicles from a Stig-driven limo, a HondaJet, and a motorbike to the finish line. In the end, the Chiron lost the epic duel.
I can't believe it. Even though this game is slowly becoming "the ultimate racing game of your generation" in the same way an all-oldies AM radio station DWWW called themselves "the ultimate station of your generation playing the music of your life", judging the fact that they keep adding older cars of the past century in-game or DLC, they still remember those guys. They still remember the Top Gear episode where Chris Harris drives the Chiron on an epic Middle East race as well as The Grand Tour episode where Jeremy Clarkson drives the Chiron from Saint Tropez to Turin for a date with his contessa. See what I mean? Yes, I know they're long overdue to feature the Chiron because that car came out two years ago and we are desperate as heck to see the Forza franchise feature it for our driving pleasure. Now that it's here, it's time to see what's what about the Chiron.
Of course the Chiron is the fastest car in the world but obviously, it isn't the fastest car in the world right now because some boutique supercar companies, namely Koenigsegg, managed to smash the Chiron's records, especially its predecessor, which remains the benchmark for hypercars everywhere. Still, the Chiron is engineered to the highest magnitude and then some, resulting to a hypercar that not only roars with its ferocious speed but also comes with the velvety smoothness of the jet set lifestyle. It really is the Concorde of the road like the Veyron.
What are the Chiron's highlights? First, it can accelerate from 0-186mph faster than your average city car doing 0 to 60. At high speeds, it will empty its fuel tank in less than nine minutes, the equivalent of seven shot glasses per second. For cooling, the Chiron has ten radiators and a water pump which sends 200 gallons of water a minute round the engine. The news just keeps on going but in the end, it's about the speed itself that makes it the Chiron's party piece. I know, I tried but I won't tell you how fast I drove the Chiron on the straight but all that rumble and the crispy exhaust note makes me want to chew an industrial sized packet full of pork rinds. So, what about on the track? To find out, I went to the Top Gear track.
You might imagine that just because it's a mid-engined supercar does it mean that it can handle round a corner as usual but just like it's predecessor, the Chiron is downright heavy and it's not cumbersome by the feeling of it but it tackles corners in unpredictable patterns. It's about as scary to drive as listening to Vice Ganda's ramblings just to tick other people off. It's My Little Heart with a dab of Royal Sword on it and that makes for a very challenging statement.
Question? Is the Chiron better than the Veyron? To find out, I attempt to be the real-world record set by The Stig round the track in the Veyron Super Sport at the time of 1:16.8 and all I have to do that is beat that without crashing.
The time? I did it in 1:15.545, which means I've beat the predecessor's real time record by a considerable gap but for me, that wasn't fast enough. Still, this is the best I could for Bugatti's newest heir to its throne.
The Chiron may have lost its iron throne to the others, especially to the likes of Koenigsegg, but it really is a force without master that is now under the strength of the select privy by the power of its key. At first, it's all about going itself into Siege mode but it goes all the way into Flight mode to see how far can the Chiron go at such naked speeds in double time. With the Chiron now secured in the world of Forza, cars like this will make players happy to come back playing some more. Speaking of which, here's a little end note to conclude my dibs with the Chiron...
Speaking of "siege" and "flight", it does make a nice statement, although unsure about my special treatment. It makes me wanna yell "HOEEEEEEEE!!!"
With the topic of how much improvements supercars had made over the past few decades, I went to the Top Gear Test Track to sample out the unsung heroes of the supercar realm in the 90's on Forza Motorsport 7.
It was the early 90s when I was born, Mount Pinatubo erupted in a cataclysmic matter, the Gulf War reached its climax, Bill Clinton rose to power, and most importantly, the stock market crash, Bugatti brought us the EB110 and Jaguar brought us the XJ220. Emerging from the dark days of the last decade of the 20th century, these speed demons have been overlooked by many but their speed is beyond comparison to today's supercars and frightening indeed when you take them out for a spin.
The EB110 wasn't much of a problem to drive because it is four-wheel drive but the XJ220 is frightening indeed because with no driver aids, no TCS, and no ABS, it's all up to the skill of the driver to survive the intimidating speed and dynamics this Jag delivers and between a rock and a hard place, the XJ220 really is both so you'd better watch out if you're behind the wheel of this Jag.
Anyway, now that I got my taste with the most vicious supercars of the 90s that are forgettable by some but remain quicker by modern standards, something not ever today's supercars can possess, how about a little one-lap battle between these two? This is going to be good...
Anyway, let's check out the times...
EB110 - 1:20.741
XJ220 - 1:21.588
Another day, another close-call comparison between the two cars. Sounds idiotic but seems that the Bugatti that was forged before its financial woes and takeover by VW was the poster supercar and to date, only a handful of supercars can go quicker than that. That's on the straights but on the racetrack, it's everyone's game, to be honest.
It's hard to fathom that there are some cars, despite their age, can go quicker than today's cars because as cars went softer and softer, they're not reaching the full reach that their ancestors possess and it's a pity that with supercars like these, looks like the best have done nothing to be like these cars. And that is the bottom line.
Forza Motorsport 7 offered us the series' most oldest vehicle and us millennials felt very disappointed because as cars get more modern, the racing games gone backwards because they feature older cars rather than new because let's be honest, they've been poisoned against us by baby boomers. Anyway, poison aside, let's get to know the oldest car in the Forza franchise and this one is a legend worth noticing.
This is the legend in question, it's called the Bugatti Type 35 and it's part of the Doritos Car Pack. Forza fans who are demanding Turn 10 to put a Chiron in the game aren't very pleased by this move because this is not the Bugatti they've wanted for but for historians, it's quite an honor to get to know about the Pur Sang legend itself because no racing car in history has ever accumulated more wins than the legendary Bugatti Type 35.
The Bugatti Type 35 is one of the most successful racing machines orchestrated by founder and engineer Ettore Bugatti. From its maiden voyage at the 1926 Grand Prix, the Type 35 racked up an overall record of 1000 wins. It won the first ever Monaco Grand Prix, which is one of the biggest races in the world alongside the Indianapolis 500 and the 24 Heures du Mans in 1950.
The Type 35 C is powered by a Roots supercharger, as opposed to Ettore Bugatti's condemnation for force induction, and with a single Zenith carburettor, it produced almost 128HP of power. This machine has won the French Grand Prix at Saint-Gaudens in 1928 and at Pau in 1930. About 50 units were produced.
Being one of the machines forged in the grassroots of the grand prix, it's no wonder why the Type 35 is worthy of being a legend of its own right because of its impressive record no other racing machine in history could achieve such a feat and how could a car like this that achieved such herculean task remains a mystery for us. To be honest, I don't either but it's great to understand about the legendary racing machine that racked up a thousand wins and driving one gives me the impression of what is like to be with the legend. To do that, let's go to the Bugatti Circuit section of Le Mans to see if this car lives up to the legend.
At start, driving the legendary Type 35 might not be as simple as it looks because while the power output is not very intimidating to shred your fingers off, the steering is somewhere between a rock and a hard place and you need some predictable patterns to pull one off. Rock and hard place aside, despite its faults, the Type 35 is relatively superior to anyone who wishes to drive with the legend itself and if the more they drive it, the more they will enjoy it, making it plenty of reasons why this Tpe 35 became part of every petrolheads' bucket list.
Talking about here, let's imagine I have last two minutes driving this car here in Le Mans. This is where I'm to this challenge and all I have to do is finish it in less than two minutes because nothing's more fun than finishing the job in less than two minutes.
So, how did I do? Well, I did it in 1:58.285, and I got a second to leave.
So, thoughts on the Type 35? Sure, it maybe harsh to drive but all that rumble and all that racing pedigree is why they made it to every petrolheads' bucket list because this was the legend that accumulated the most wins of any racing car in history and that's why it's special to us all. So, what are you waiting for? Now is the ideal time to try out this Pur Sang legend by yourself in Forza Motorsport 7.
These ultra-expensive, ultra-powerful, and ultra-rare machines can be considered themselves as "Aces" because they possessed superior capabilities, massive firepower, and road superiority a true ace should have. Whether it can be sophisticated or bewildering, to civilized to insane, the aces really are born in the perfect battlefield where only the best ace survive but which of these aces are "Ace of Aces?"
First, let's get to know the aces and first up, it's the Koenigsegg Agera. Made as the successor to the CCX, the one that Stig almost got killed while he drove one round the Top Gear track several years ago. It was powered by a turbocharged 5-litre V8 engine that produces 940PS of power and 1,100Nm of torque. 0-100kph in under 3.1 seconds and top speed of 435kph while mated with a 7-speed double clutch gearbox. It was awarded Top Gear's 2010 Hypercar of the Year.
Next, it's the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport. While the Veyron is highly respected as the world's fastest machine, the Super Sport pushed the machinima to its extreme levels and with its 431.072 km/h (267.856 mph) top speed, the Veyron SS set the benchmark for the fastest production vehicles.
And lastly and notably a fierce one, the Hennessey Venom GT. This purpose-built speed demon from the Hennessey Performance Engineering possesses some record-smashing speed records with its fastest 0-300kph time of 13.63 seconds. It has clocked a max speed of 270.49mph on a runway at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, making it unofficially the fastest car in the world and because it's unofficial, it's not quite matched to the production numbers of the Veyron SS.
The aces are set in the Top Gear Test Track and the fastest time is the winner.
At the starting line, both the Venom GT and the Agera are struggling to get it straight because the massive torque of these two sent these two on a catastrophic wheelspin but for the Veyron Super Sport, thanks to its 4WD powertrain, got off to a rocket start smoothly but in the corners, since the Veyron Super Sport is the heaviest of the three, both the Venom GT and the Agera glide through the corners with ease. This could be very one sided.
Mind you, the Venom GT has the most powerful engine compared to the Veyron SS and the Agera and because it's lighter, this ace sweeps through the corners and straights faster than you can say "Fox Two".
Which means, that the "Ace of Aces" goes to the Venom GT because not only its twin-turbo LS9 V8 engine possess a massive firepower but its lightweight bodywork has greater superiority on the track making it the ideal multirole in the high speed stakes and track days. This million-dollar hypercar is by no means the Ace of Aces in an all-out ace combat on Forza 5.
A few days ago, I went to the internet and I found this...
A video from Motor Trend magazine showcased a drag race with the Lexus LFA, McLaren MP4-12C, Lamborghini Aventador LP700-4, and the Bugatti Veyron. However, it's not what you think. First of all, the LFA and the 12C will have to challenge first and the winner gets to challenge the Aventador and the winner has to challenge the Bugatti Veyron (heh).
You saw what you see here, right? This is how somewhat both the Aventador and the Veyron should have been in last year's world's greatest drag race. Anyway, with such popularity, I devised a plan to create my very own Forza Motorsport 4 version of that drag race...
It's amazing that here in Forza 4, we don't just race, tune, or decorate, we recreate reality! Wow! Now that's amazing, I can tell.
Everybody knows that the Bugatti Veyron is the pinnacle of the supercar world because of its orgy and mind numbing numbers. It may cost over a million dollars, producing almost a thousand horsepower, and a top speed that exceeds 200mph. Just that everybody think that the Veyron's the world's fastest but now it isn't. While the Veyron can do 253mph, the SSC Ultimate Aero can do 256mph, making it the fastest car ever made, not the Veyron. The Germans aren't very pleased...
For Bugatti's act of revenge against the American-made SSC Ultimate Aero, they created a monster that it proves to be the ultimate Bugatti in history, something that is wickedly powerful than the Veyron.
Hello, what's this? A Veyron in carbon fiber body?
Surely it's carbon fiber but it's more annoying
than The Annoying Orange!
Hmmm....It could be a Bugatti Veyron but this is a bit more than that. It doesn't look like a Veyron and it doesn't sound like one. This could only be one thing...
So, are we opening the Guinness Book of World Records with the words
"Fastest Man on Earth: James May"? Not exactly...
Behold! The Bugatti Veyron Super Sport! The fastest production car in the world! Really? But how? To be sure, the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport has the same 0 to 60 time as the original Veyron, which is 2 and a half seconds, but now the 0 to 100 time has improved. It would do that in 4.5 seconds, which is the same as the Porsche 911 GT3 and this will go to an electronically-limited top speed of 258mph. The standard Veyron has 987HP of power but the Super Sport has 1183HP of power. Also, the new Veyron Super Sport has a new bodywork which proves to be lighter than the standard Veyron and some aerodynamic tweaks are done as well. This ultimate Veyron showed up at the 2010 Pebble Beach Concours D'elegance and it costs 1.7 million British Pounds Sterling and Bugatti said that only 30 will be produced.
In one episode of Top Gear, James May returns to Ehra-Lessien, Volkswagen's top secret testing base, to max out the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport. Everybody knows that the top speed is limited to 415.07 km/h (257.91 mph) to prevent the wheels to blow off, right? What happens if it exceed? The team at Bugatti provided the Veyron Super Sport some extra durable tires that cost 20,000 Pounds per set and then James May is off to the max. He managed to max out in 417 km/h (259 mph) but after his run, Bugatti sent one of their test drivers to max it out and the record? Well, its 431.072 km/h (267.856 mph)!
When the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport was handed to The Stig, it set an astonishing 1:16.8 lap time at the Top Gear Test Track, faster than the Gumpert Apollo S.
Stig makes a lap with the Bugatti Veyron SS!
That car will simply make you go bananas when you push this car to the max, especially when you make drag races with this one. Seeking this as an enemy would be somewhat fierce but seeking this as an ally would be somewhat trustworthy. Even though it has a very challenging handling, the speed is simply monstrous. Your brain might be easily take off when you push it too hard.
The Bugatti Veyron Super Sport is applicable for those who owned the Forza Motorsport 4 Limited Collector's Edition. Those who are lucky enough would be wise to push the Bugatti Super Sport to the max.
This car you're familiar with, the Bugatti Veyron. The meeting point for the most collection of numbers; one million Pounds, one thousand horsepower, and a top speed of over 200mph. Sorry because I often watched too much Top Gear but the Bugatti Veyron 16.4 has a special place in Top Gear history, despite that the British government permitted the show that they Veyron has to be featured once per season.
It raced against a Cessna 182...
James May maxed out the Veyron in Ehra-Lessien...
It made a fight against a Euro Fighter Typhoon (and the Veyron lost that fight)
And finally, it won a drag race against the McLaren F1 in Abu Dhabi.
If that wasn't enough, The Stig set a lap time of 1:18.3 round the Top Gear Test Track. Just as we thought that the world's fastest car should be the fastest at the Top Gear Test Track but we are wrong because the weight of the Veyron surely can't keep up. It's cornering ability might be challenging but at the straights, it's unstoppable.
Surely, this is wickedly fast but as of now, the SSC Ultimate Aero kicked the Veyron's butt, which later the SSC got its butt kicked by the ultimate Veyron ever built which is the Veyron Super Sport, which I will talk about that later.
It doesn't matter because the Veyron is back on Forza Motorsport 4 and it is one of the many vehicles to explore in the game's Autovista feature.
