Meet Chiron, Son of Veyron

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Meet Chiron, Son of Veyron

Meet Chiron, Son of Veyron

By The Editors

If tooling around in your Bugatti Veyron no longer provides the thrills it once did, might we suggest its successor: the 2017 Bugatti Chiron.

The $2.5 million, 1500-hp supercar, which boasts an expected top speed of around 288 miles per hour, will debut at the Geneva auto show next March — but the last 24 hours have seen both its public christening and the leak of the first “spy” photo.

We’d happily think the name is a reference to the supremely wise centaur who, Greek mythology tells us, tutored Theseus, Achilles, Jason and Ajax … but it’s more likely a reference to revered Grand Prix driver Louis Chiron, who raced for Equipe Bugatti in the 1930s. 

The latter was snapped “on the roads of Italy” and promptly uploaded to Instagram: “It looks and sounds like it is from a different planet,” says the guy who took it.

Vroom-vroom, people. Get your orders in now.

via Car and Driver

images via Bugatti and Eric Hessel

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