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This is an '05 Bugatti Veyron EB 16.4. Designed by Jozef Kabaň, Hartmut Warkuß and Frank Götzke, the Veyron was Bugatti's first product in ten years since the discontinuation of the EB 110. Intended to speed past the competition, the Veyron, named for French racing driver Pierre Veyron, is fitted with an 8.0L Volkswagen V16; for good measure, four turbochargers are added, bringing the output of the Veyron to 1001 BHP.
With a 7-speed Ricardo dual clutch direct shift transmission, the Veyron has broken numerous records since its production and has won many plaudits from all over. Deemed "Car of the Decade" by British motoring magazine Top Gear, the Veyron is sure to continue stunning people with its appearance and speed of 253 mph (407 km/h). Future versions of the Veyron would tune the engine to more extreme levels, outputting over 1200 BHP in some cases; a version of the Veyron, the Veyron Super Sport, currently holds the record of fastest production car as certified by Guinness, with a top speed of 267.856 mph (431.072 km/h). Hot Wheels puts it bluntly: it seems that the only thing this supercar can't do... is lose. 450 were produced from 2005 to 2014, with 252 being EB 16.4 models; it was succeeded by the Chiron in 2016.
Now this casting was designed by Mark Jones and introduced in 2003 as a New Model, representing the earlier concept version of the car. That version saw nine releases, the last being the coveted Speed Machines version in 2010. Eleven years later, the casting was retooled to better represent the production car, of which this is the only release as of now. Veyrons are notorious for not being cheap to acquire.
