2022 Bugatti Chiron Super Sport

Is that more car buying advice we hear you crying out for? Okay, let’s take a look at the Bugatti Chiron Super Sport ...

SUPER SPORT

If you have a spare £3million to spend on a car and the Pagani Huayra R is a little too hardcore for your liking, then perhaps you might be tempted by the Bugatti Chiron Super Sport? In a recent press release, Bugatti’s President Stephen Winkelmann said “With the Chiron Super Sport, we are following our longstanding tradition of combining top speed with absolute luxury” and also went on to claim that it is the “ultimate grand tourer.”

Yep, definitely sounds like a road car. The combination of top speed and absolute luxury is what Bugatti do best. This car is based on the record breaking Super Sport 300+ which became the first production road car to break the magical 300mph barrier with a VMAX on 304.773mph, back in 2019. Only 30 of those cars were built to commemorate the achievement, and now Bugatti will offer customers a non-300+ Super Sport model, although there’s no word on how many they will build. Not many, probably.

So, what’s different? Mechanically it looks identical to the 300+. The quad-turbocharged 8.0 litre W16 engine produces the same 1,578bhp with the rev-limiter set at 7,100rpm which is 300rpm more than a normal Chiron. Torque is obviously colossal at 1,180lb ft and it’s available between 2,000rpm and 7,000rpm. The performance figures are genuinely out of this world. It will accelerate from rest to 124mph in just 5.8 seconds and cover 0-186mph in just 12.1 seconds. Bugatti claim the top speed is 273mph, the same as the so-called 300+ model, but we suspect it will go a lot quicker than that. The tyre is the giveaway. It’s a Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2 that can handle sustained speeds of up to 311mph.

Bugatti has also developed a new chassis specifically for the car’s high speed and aerodynamics. The Super Sport has an extended rear that’s 25cm longer a normal Chiron’s and a modified front to help balance aerodynamics at top speed. Whatever that top speed actually is. The philosophy is different to that of a Chiron Pur Sport which has a greater focus on downforce for Bugatti customers who want something more dynamic to drive.

The Chiron isn’t the only Bugatti to have received the Super Sport treatment. In 1931, they unveiled the Type 55 Super Sport at the Paris Motor Show. The car was designed by Jean Bugatti and was capable of 112mph with only 38 cars being produced up until 1935. Then there was the EB110 Super Sport that was produced between 1993 and 1995. Only 39 were built and it was the first car of its type to boast carbon fibre bodywork, all wheel drive and four turbocharges. It did 218mph. That car’s successor, the Veyron 16.4 Super Sport sent the world’s media in to overdrive when it claimed the production car speed record in 2010 – formerly held by the McLaren F1 – while recording a VMAX of 268mph, and subsequently landed itself a spot in the Guinness Book of Records. Bugatti made 30 of those. The Chiron Super Sport then, comes from a line of ultra-rare, record breaking road cars that aren’t just capable of great speed, but also luxury and absolute refinement.

“Performance figures are genuinely out of this world”

It costs around £2.7million before options or taxes, so roughly £3.24million once HMRC has had its big pay day. A touch more expensive than the Pagani we mentioned in the previous article, but then look at like this. It’s approximately a million quid ‘cheaper’ than the Super Sport 300+ it’s related to, and unlike the Huayra R, you can actually use it on the public road. By our bodged calculations, that makes it good value. Honest. First deliveries start in early 2022 and if you have the funds to purchase one, you should do it. Because why wouldn’t you?

The Chiron Super Sport has the same exaust layout and long tail as the 300+