One thousand and one horsepower, sixteen cylinders, seven speeds and over 400km/h – transmission engineering challenges don’t come much tougher than Bugatti’s fabulous million-euro Veyron supercar.Tony Lewin reports on the support provided by Ricardo in the development and manufacture of one of the most sophisticated driveline systems ever conceived.
It’s the front-cover splash of almost every car magazine in the world. Everywhere, writers are struggling to find new superlatives to describe its astonishing performance. And everywhere the message is the same: this million-euro machine...