Watch Bugatti Test The Centodieci In A Wind Tunnel

You may be of the opinion that limited-edition hypercars with seven-figure price tags are little more than showpieces, and considering how low the mileage is when such vehicles come up for auction, you wouldn't be wrong. But the companies that build these hypercars don't cut corners.

Bugatti revealed theCentodieciback in 2019, but itstill hasn't been finished. A couple of months back, we saw a video of ittesting at the Nurburgringwhere it was being put through its pacesalongside the Chiron Super Sport 300+. Things are moving steadily for the limited-edition hypercar, and now Bugatti has completed wind tunnel testing.

Subjected to wind speeds high enough for an airplane to take off - up to 300 kph (186 mph) - the Centodieci remains on the ground thanks to its clever aero. Bugatti places a band under each tire and another under the vehicle floor to simulate these high speeds so that the engineers can see how the air under the car and in the wheel wells behaves at high speed. Bugatti dismantles the driveshafts to "prevent the external drive of the wheels from transferring any forces into the vehicle. The vehicle is then fixed with nothing but four small pins in the underbody and its height is varied according to the testing plan."

前面扩散襟翼和尾翼是继续ally adjusted to find the perfect settings. In the production car, these aero addendums will be permanently fixed. "Even once we have identified the ideal settings, we continue to try others in order to see how the Centodieci responds," says Technical Project Manager André Kullig.