This is what is takes to build a 1,479bhp Bugatti Chiron

Bugatti have delivered 70 new Chirons to lucky owners. Here’s how they made ’em

Unsurprisingly, much of the discourse surrounding the Bugatti Chiron has been focused on numbers, because it makes many big ones. Powerful ones. Ones that are capable of sending you into a mild stupor. After all, a car that produces 1,479bhp and is capable of hitting a 261mph top speed deserves plenty of your attention.

Though it had to deliver a combination of haymakers. The car that preceded it pretty much rewrote the book on modern performance and engineering. To paraphrase Churchill, Bugatti shaped the Veyron, but afterwards, it shaped Bugatti.