Aspiring to continue to push the automotive envelope, Bugatti’s engineers were keenly looking to the future and began working on the Veyron 16.4’s successor soon after the Veyron itself entered production.

It was a given that the Veyron’s successor would be faster and more technologically advanced than its predecessor—but Bugatti’s engineers would rise to the occasion in spectacular fashion, and the Chiron upped the ante in every regard.

Named after the famed Monégasque racing driver Louis Chiron, it was introduced to the public at the Geneva Motor Show in 2016.

The new Bugatti Chiron shared many of its predecessor’s features, carrying over the prior model’s all-wheel drive, rear-mid-engine architecture, its approximate coachwork dimensions, and most importantly, the aluminum alloy 8.0-liter quad-turbocharged W-16 engine.

The drivetrain was even further developed from the outgoing Veyron Super Sport, with larger two-stage turbochargers, larger catalytic converters, and a new titani...