LEGO Bugatti Chiron – 1:8 scale

OK , I was joking about saving the HS2 ticket price.   At £2.5mn I could probably buy a lifetime travel card for me and everyone else in Helmel Hempstead. The Chiron is a carbonfibre-tubbed two seater with conventionally opening doors. It has an 8.0-litre, 16-cylinder engine in a W configuration. This means four banks of four cylinders around a common crankshaft. The upper two banks have a 90deg V between them. The lower two another 15deg each side of those. There are four turbos, two of which are blowing all the time and fed by eight exhausts apiece, to minimise what would otherwise be unimaginable lag. The other two are valved, to drop in and out depending on throttle position and rev range, and when they’re ‘on’, each of the four turbos is powered by four exhausts. That they drop in and out helps to make a near-flat torque curve of 1180lb ft from 2000pm to 6000rpm.  Power goes mostly to the rear, but with a Haldex coupling pushing it to the front when the rears can’t cope. Which would be often.

So how does the LEGO model compare?

Well its not as big. In fact its 8 times smaller. And it won't get you down to the local Tesco. It is however and incredibly detailed, beautiful model that will have you drooling as you unpack the box.