Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Legendary luxury car makers Bugatti have decided to go the hybrid way for their next in line - the Bugatti Galibier.
Bugatti which was started in 1909 by Ettore Bugatti is a formidable name not only in production of celebrated road cars but also in the racing scene. (In fact Bugatti sometimes even makes airplanes and more rarely – railcars!)
The very exclusive Galibier Sedan comes with a gigantular breath sucking W16 engine from the Veyron, minus the two superchargers from the total four. The W16 is mated to a dual-clutch gearbox. Interestingly, the dual-power system, a welcome addition might I add, has been developed owing to the increasing number of metropolitan city-centers that are taking steps to ban internal combustion cars firing up in downtown areas abroad. As you can imagine Bugatti owners aren't exactly the type to use public modes of transit and thus this change.
Already the Galibier is a controversial car (owing to its sedan inclinations), much hue and cry followed when Bugatti announced it to be the Veyron replacement (which it isn’t by the way because it’s a sedan). Now with the onset of a hybrid Galibier in the mix many are questioning the point of a hybrid super-sedan. And although in a strange environmentally way I like the idea of a hybrid, I think it should be a ‘from-scratch’ implementation and not an addition to an already existing supercar. The main reason behind is that the mutation of adding a hybrid to a car is neither a proper super-car nor a proper hybrid and in the end like say, the Cayenne Hybrid which serves neither the ‘green’ nor the fast end of the spectrum.
The Galibier Concept which first surfaced in 2009 stands to be one of the most exclusive, elegant and powerful four-door automobile in the world.
Although the project is still premature, parent company Volkswagen hopes to produce atleast ten times the number of Veyrons it produced annually, which would mean production of 3000 units annually. We estimate the Galibier to be priced around £ 1 million.
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