The Bugatti Veyron EB 16.4 is a mid-engined

Mid-engine design

A mid-engine layout describes the placement of an automobile engine between the rear and front axles. Another term for this is mid-ship.-Benefits:The mid-engine layout is typically chosen for its relatively favorable weight distribution...

 grand touring car

Grand tourer

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. The Super Sport version is the fastest road-legal production car in the world, with a top speed of 431 km/h (267.8 mph). The original version has a top speed of 408 km/h (253.5 mph). It was named Car of the Decade (2000–2009) by the BBC

BBC

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 television programme Top Gear.

Designed and developed by Volkswagen Group

Volkswagen Group

Volkswagen Group is a German multinational automobile manufacturing group. , Volkswagen was ranked as the world’s third largest motor vehicle manufacturer and Europe's largest....

 (based on the Bentley Hunaudieres

Bentley Hunaudières

The Bentley Hunaudières is a concept car built by Bentley for the 1999 Geneva Salon International de l'Auto. It is powered by a Volkswagen 8.0-litre, naturally aspirated, W16 engine that generates of power at 6,000 revolutions per minute and of torque at 4,000 revolutions per minute in...

 concept) and produced by Bugatti Automobiles SAS

Bugatti Automobiles SAS

Bugatti Automobiles S.A.S. is an automobile manufacturer located in Molsheim, Alsace, France. It is owned by the German automobile manufacturing group Volkswagen Group as a subsidiary of Volkswagen France...

 at their headquarters in Château Saint Jean in Molsheim

Molsheim

Molsheim is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France. The total population in 2006 was 9,382. Molsheim had been a very fast growing city between the French censuses of 1968 and 1999, passing from 5,739 to 9,331 inhabitants, but this increase came to a noticeable halt...

 (Alsace

Alsace

Alsace is the fifth-smallest of the 27 regions of France in land area , and the smallest in metropolitan France. It is also the seventh-most densely populated region in France and third most densely populated region in metropolitan France, with ca. 220 inhabitants per km²...

, France), the Veyron's chief designer was Hartmut Warkuss, and the exterior was designed by Jozef Kabaň

Jozef Kaban

Jozef Kabaň is a Slovak automobile designer. He started his career as a designer in Volkswagen. In 2003 he moved to Audi as an exterior design assistant. In 2007 he advanced to the position of Chief of Exterior Design at Audi. He was chief-designer of the Volkswagen Lupo, SEAT Arosa and Bugatti...

 of Volkswagen, with much of the engineering work being conducted under the guidance of former Peterbilt

Peterbilt

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 Trucks engineer and now Bugatti Engineering chief Wolfgang Schreiber.