Bugatti has ensured that the new Chiron Pur Sport will make waves in the American market. The first customer Pur Sport hit these shores in January destined for sale by Miller Motorcars of Westport, Connecticut. Meanwhile, Matt Farah recently unveiled a police-attracting review of the radical supercar on his YouTube channel The Smoking Tire. And now, Bugatti has taken the Chiron Pur Sport to the iconic track at Willow Springs to show off the car's incredible performance potential with a bit of tire-shredding drifting.
A Veyron Derivative Built For Driving Dynamics
The Chiron Pur Sport starts at around $4 million and employs Bugatti's legendary quad-turbocharged W16 engine. In this iteration, the powerplant pumps out 1,500 horsepower and 1,180 lb-ft of torque, though the Pur Sport wasn't built for all-out top speed like other Veyron derivatives, instead intended to combine aggressive aerodynamics with revised gearing and suspension to allow wealthy customers to shave seconds off their lap times at circuits like Willow Springs.
24 Hours Of Le Mans Winner Butch Leitzinger
Of course, most Chiron Pur Sports will never get driven anywhere near the limits of their performance, though for this session in the Southern California desert, Bugatti called upon factory test driver and 24 Hours of Le Mans class winner Butch Leitzinger to show what the car can do. "The seamless marriage of agility and brute force give the Pur Sport abilities that are unmatched," said Leitzinger. "Not only by any other car, but also by any other Bugatti."
Stats And Specs For The Chiron Pur Sport
Compared to a "normal" Chiron, the Pur Sport variant can sprint to 60 miles per hour two-tenths of a second faster, at 2.3 ticks, though the 18% reduced gear ratios explain the advantage—as well as the fact that the Pur Sport can only hit a max of 218 miles per hour, far less than a standard Chiron's 261-mph top speed.
Those figures could make the Pur Sport more attractive to America's wealthiest car buyers, explained COO of Bugatti of the Americas Cedric Davy, "The Pur Sport offers U.S. customers a new dimension of the Chiron that doesn’t require the Autobahn to fully experience. We now have the car for those customers who have been waiting for a Chiron geared more towards agility and dynamic cornering."
Sources: newsroom.bugatti.com and vimeo.com.