Bugatti will launch a new $1.9 million version of its Veyron supercar in 2008, according to a published report. The so-called Veyron Targa will receive a glass roof engineered by Webasto — the same German firm responsible for the folding roof on the Volkswagen Eos, according to Edmunds. Unlike the Porsche 911 Targa — which has a glass roof that retracts and is stowed onboard — the Veyron’s roof panel will have to be removed by hand and kept in the garage.
The reason for this shortcoming is the Veyron’s tightly packed design, which leaves no room to store the panel. To compensate, the car will offer an expandable fabric cover that will slide in place of the glass and shield the interior from the elements.
The report seems to suggests that, unlike the Porsche 911 Targa, the Bugatti will have no structural member connecting the windscreen to the pseudo c-pillar/roll-bar. Consequently, reinforcements will be added to the windscreen to maintain rollover safety, and other changes will be made to the underbody to maintain torsional stiffness.
Bugatti will make up for the added weight by giving the car a carbon hood and doors — bringing the weight back to down to the coupe’s level. While acceleration figures should remain unchanged, top speed will be electronically limited to 217 mph for safety reasons. The aerodynamics of the Targa model will not be suitable for the car’s regular top speed of 250 mph, the report said.


07/22, 6:54 PM
posted by:
SliK
They’ll slow the car down (which was the main point of this car) and you can’t even bring the roof with you but they increase the price. Well you’ll probably never run it to his limit and a glass roof is really nice so it will sell for sure before they put it to retail.
07/22, 6:58 PM
posted by:
monts
Why dont they just make the regular coupe’s hood and doors out of carbon fiber as an option?
07/22, 6:59 PM
posted by:
Tom
$ 1.9 million 0_o
thats more than FXX :/
07/22, 7:46 PM
posted by:
cool man
$1.9 million? Thats $600,000 more than the coupe. Its a small section of the roof that can be removed by hand. No push of button or anything? A folding hardtop costs $3 to $5,000 more than the coupe and it comes with a press button. Come on!! LOL
Maybe the Bugatti company hates rich peeps that don’t do any work in their lives and found a way to make the rich drivers to do actual work!! (by lifting the heavy roof and putting it away in a 7-car garage)
07/22, 8:03 PM
posted by:
alex
TIme to cut back on the caviar, saffron, supermodel stripers and start saving up
07/22, 8:11 PM
posted by:
Jurrian
If you take a chainsaw in youre “regular” veyron you will have this option as well, and after some extra work you will be able to store the roof in the car.
It’s a cheaper option!
07/22, 8:15 PM
posted by:
Wickedated
#4- Keep in mind that VW is taking a SEVERE blow on each Bugatti Veyron they make. Reports indicate that due to the limited run of these vehicles, after you square away development costs, each car costs VW $5mil to manufacture, but are being sold for $1.3mil. VW has the financial resources to get around that, mostly because the Veyron is more or less a showcase car. However, the surprising demand for this vehicle has actually given a new spin on things. On the first launch date in Dubai, 7 were sold within a 5 hour time frame! I believe most (if not all) of the Veyron are already spoken for. This gives plenty of room for VW to charge $1.9mil for the next batch. That being said, if you’re on the market for a million dollar super car, 600k is short change for an even more exclusive ultraexotic.
07/22, 8:17 PM
posted by:
Wickedated
And if I could, I’d buy two. a black coupe and a white targa for the sunny days.
07/22, 8:18 PM
posted by:
Wickedated
Man …I really suck ass
07/22, 8:19 PM
posted by:
Raekwon
I do too
07/22, 8:20 PM
posted by:
cool man
Me three
07/22, 8:21 PM
posted by:
Wickedated
WTF?
07/22, 8:48 PM
posted by:
cool man
i didnt type that #12
stick to the LNN topic!
07/22, 9:21 PM
posted by:
al
i hope bugatti expands its lines and makes different cars rather than only the veyron wich looses them money
07/22, 10:29 PM
posted by:
Dustin
ok, is anyone tlking on this thread anymore
07/22, 11:28 PM
posted by:
Adam
I must say. Everyone is correct. My first rant is the fact that you’re paying 1.9mil for a $600grand hard top that doesnt even put itself in the garage. If I opted to buy the targa…the top should take itself off when the weather was right and put itself away in the garage…if it started to rain, the thing should fly over and reassemble on your car. That extra 1.3mil is for the permits the must obtain for you to be able to buy such a dumb concept. Another thing…That glass better be made out of white sand from a Bermuda beach or something. And the fabric bs cover thing should be made out of only the finest silk and hand sewn by some korean kid.
But yes, the Veyron coupes were sold out completely 46 days after being released. So…the Targas are gauranteed gone already…so start saving up for their 2.6 million dollar 4door sedan that goes 160 maybe and doesnt have a hood or door panels. BINGO.
07/23, 2:36 AM
posted by:
Sean
Worst idea ever.
07/23, 3:54 AM
posted by:
Carnut4ever
For the additional 600k from the regular coupe I expect the ff:
-A rectractable metal folding top with or without the nice electric dimming glass panels
-Top speed greater or up to par with the regular production coupe
-Weight and rigidity up to par to coupe(Zonda F can do it why can’t the Veyron too?)
-Additional changes to the body that announces to the world that you have the convertible and not the regular coupe
07/23, 5:01 AM
posted by:
cuebler
I’d like to make an addition to Wickedated (comment no 8.). VW sold the 5.0 millionUSD-developed Bugattis to ultra-riches for 1.3 millionUSD. But the missing 3.7 millionUSD is paid by the other fool (and maybe not too rich) VW-owners. Yeah, this is a kind of business…
07/23, 5:23 AM
posted by:
Reza
The people who buy this kinds of cars are the ones that dont even look for their lost bag with 2 million dollars in it. Tom Cruise has one, and I know a person who has his name in the list, and he’s already paid the full amount. He has an Enzo, a XJ220, SLR, F40, Maybach 62, and much more exotic cars… He has so much money that he didn’t even care how much the car cost. If he likes it, he’ll have it no dispute about the price. He also donated $7 million USD to Red Cross, and built schools in Africa and India.
When I get rich I’ll get me an EB110 SS and get it over w/.
07/23, 10:53 AM
posted by:
KEENLEYSPEED
Money is no option if you are in the market for a Veyron. And what better way to garnish an epic car like the Veyron, than to give it a glass roof, and a removable one at that.
WHY ARE ALL THE VEYRON’S NOT SOLD YET, HEY RICH PEOPLE, ARE YOU MENTAL?
And as for Tom Cruise, not only can he not open the door to the Veyron, he’s too cheap to buy one, he just rented it for the MI:3 premiere.
07/23, 2:34 PM
posted by:
William Wallace
watta douche
07/23, 2:36 PM
posted by:
Doug H
sneriosly
07/23, 4:55 PM
posted by:
Jason
“Bugatti will make up for the added weight by giving the car a carbon hood and doors — bringing the weight back to down to the coupe’s level.”
Makes me laugh. The car is already a porky 4200 whopping pounds, who cares at this point? It’s like the 400 pound woman drinking diet soda.
07/23, 7:07 PM
posted by:
Sean
And as for Tom Cruise, not only can he not open the door to the Veyron, he’s too cheap to buy one, he just rented it for the MI:3 premiere.
You know he turned the Veyron on at the LA Auto Show? He said he was buying one there. If he really didn’t but it for the LA auto show, that man is becoming a bigger douche by the minute with his stupid antics.
07/23, 10:48 PM
posted by:
Craig
I suppose I’d have the clearest opinion about whether or not I think owning a Veyron is ludicrous if I actually had the means to buy one and was given a test drive first.
However… I love cars to drive them. I always will. A $1 million or $1.9 million dollar car that is more showcase than ultimate driving machine makes diddly sense to me to personally own. A Ferarri F40 has always had my attention, though…
I am not in any position to walk into a Bugatti showroom so I’m doing little more than talk to the wind. Still, that’s how I feel about cars in general, and I do love special cars that are built to drive.
07/24, 6:59 AM
posted by:
Cameron
anyone who wants to buy a Veyron Wants it For the Speed And Who’s Going to Pay an Extra $600 000 For a car thats going to be heavier due to reinforcements to the chassis and who’ going to want to do 400km/h with the bloody roof off.
07/24, 7:13 AM
posted by:
JohnnyBlazE
This is just silly…
07/24, 8:45 AM
posted by:
fromes
for the price of the targa you could have the coupe, a murcialgao roadster and 250,000 spending money
07/24, 10:19 AM
posted by:
Jei
Huh? Can they just release the supercar 1st before suggesting a variant.
The the Targa does seem a bit counterintuitive though. While it’s not obviously clear where the driver is going to store the roof panel(s)…maybe the front boot…how will the design change?
07/24, 11:03 AM
posted by:
JohnnyBlazE
Jei, is the original not released? My friend saw one zoom past his work the other day
07/24, 1:10 PM
posted by:
1c3d0g
#18: my thoughts exactly.
07/24, 11:44 PM
posted by:
Adam Kasner
I’m back!!! I just want to say that anyone who’s buying a Bugatti is not buying it for speed. The only people who drive Bugatti’s for speed are the test drivers that work for the company. The people that are in the market for a Bugatti are high class people looking for just another object to impress their friends. It’s like a celeb buying a Baby Grand for their living room…why? Well, they bought it because it may look good, but it will surely impress guests. Tom Cruise would not purchase a Bugatti for speed. That’d be like someone other than Stevie Wonder buying a $1.9 million piano. Mr. Cruise would buy it because a) he can and b) it would impress many people, media included. In reality, it would never leave his garage, or living room.
Now, why to buy a Roadster? For the simple fact that you can say to your grandkids that you once had a car with a $600,000 sunroof. It’s the same reason you’d buy a VW Phaeton. Not because its fast, not becuase it’s reliable, but simply because you can tell a friend that you have a $100,000 VW.
Goodbye, and no more stupid comments because I can’t write anymore.
07/26, 2:51 PM
posted by:
Jei
JohnnyBlazE, you’re right, it’s been out since maybe April…but now Bugatti is diverting attention to a Targa version. It’s been a strange experience — the Bugatti Veyron phenom — I’ve heard less about the car after its release than before it.
08/06, 5:10 AM
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Bugatti Veyron Targa, posible nueva versión del Veyron para el 2008 — Diariomotor
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