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Posted by Sikander Rafique Thursday, December 10, 2009 0 comments


Bugatti Veyron $1,700,000
The Bugatti Veyron 16.4 is the most powerful, most expensive, and fastest street-legal production car in the world, with a proven top speed of over 400 km/h (407 km/h or 253 mph). It reached full production in September 2005. The car is built by Volkswagen AG subsidiary Bugatti Automobiles SAS and is sold under the legendary Bugatti marque. It is named after racing driver Pierre Veyron, who won the 24 hours of Le Mans in 1939 while racing for the original Bugatti firm. The Veyron features a W16 engine—16 cylinders in 4 banks of 4 cylinders.

According to Volkswagen, the final production Veyron engine produces between 1020 and 1040 metric hp (1006 to 1026 SAE net hp), so the car will be advertised as producing "1001 horsepower" in both the US and European markets. This easily makes it the most powerful production road-car engine in history.

Meet Shelley, The Autonomous Robot Car That’s Racing To Pike’s Peak Next Year

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When talk of robot cars start going around, I always get excited. I seriously can't wait for the day when I can just sleep in the vehicle and let the damn thing drive me places. While we wait for that glorious (but, probably, out of my lifetime) moment, those future autonomous cars' ancestors are doing pretty nifty things now.

This Audi TTS from a team of students at Stanford, for instance, can do plenty of things on its own. Rather than drive you to work, though, it's one of those things that's looking to find the limits of performance for self-operating cars - information that will be very useful for our future robotic chauffeurs.

Owning the unofficial world speed record for autonomous cars, the modified TTS (nicknamed Shelley, after female rally driver Michèle Mouton) has ran as fast as 130 mph on its own, without any incident. Its immediate goal now is to push the limit as far as it can and show researchers the edge of performance that similar self-maneuvering cars can play on. The ultimate aim, however, is more lofty: they plan to have the unmanned race car drive to the top of Pike's Peak sometime next year.

According to the team, finding the performance limits is crucial to the ultimate programming the car will receive, especially in the area of accident avoidance. While it won't likely lead to robot taxis within the near future, that kind of data can prove crucial to arming intelligent cars with better responses during emergency situations.

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