“My heart goes out to the Bugatti engineers in a way | wouldn’t have understood at all if we hadn‘t done the SLR. With the McLaren F1, 1 set targets, and we saw them through. Starting with the weight and weight distribution, package, and the aerodynamics.”
“The SLR, like the Veyron, was done the wrong way around. The styling was done as a show car, and then they said to us,‘Make that. With the Bugatti, they had two other arbitrary figures to meet, 1001 horsepower and 400 kph. So it needed 10 times as many engineers finding solutions to problems they should never have had if they’d started from the right point. And it’s not a bad car.”
“In aerodynamics, it’s no further ahead of the F1. In body structure,…
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MotorTrend (Digital) - 1 Issue, January 2006