Bugatti Veyron Turns 20: How the Hypercar Icon Is Being Celebrated with Spectacular Festivals and Record-Breaking Auctions
Origins – Piech’s “Impossible” Hypercar The Veyron traces its roots to one man’s audacious idea. In the late 1990s, VW Group chairman Prof. Dr. Ferdinand Piëch (grandson of Ferdinand Porsche) sketched on a train a vision for “a 736 kW [1,000 PS], 400 km/h road car” motor1.com drivencarguide.co.nz. His engineers thought he’d “lost the plot,” but Piëch had a history of defying convention. After VW bought Bugatti in 1998, he pushed several concept studies (EB118, EB218, EB 18/3 Chiron, and an in‑house EB 18/4 “Veyron” concept) toward a final production car motor1.com news.dupontregistry.com. The result was unveiled at the 2005 Frankfurt Motor Show