Cristiano Ronaldo has splashed out £1.7million (about $2.2million) on a Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport to treat himself after securing Euro 2016 glory with Portugal.
Ronaldo, who has been enjoying a holiday in Ibiza with his family, decided to spend his well-earned cash on the new luxurious sports car.
It is said to be the world’s most expensive car. Only 450 Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport’s are believed to have been produced.
The Super Sport version of the Veyron is the fastest street-legal production car in the world, with a top speed of 431 km/h (268 mph). The original version has a top speed of 408.47 km/h (253.81 mph). It was named Car of the Decade (2000–2009) by the BBC television programme Top Gear. The standard Veyron won Top Gear’s Best Car Driven All Year award in 2005.
The transmission is a dual-clutch direct-shift gearbox computer-controlled automatic with seven gear ratios, with magnesium paddles behind the steering wheel and a shift time of less than 150 milliseconds, built by Ricardo of England rather than Borg-Warner, who designed the six speed DSG used in the mainstream Volkswagen Group marques.
The Veyron can be driven in either semi- or fully automatic mode.
It uses special Michelin PAX run-flat tyres, designed specifically to accommodate the Veyron’s top speed, which cost US$25,000 per set. The tyres can be removed from the rims only in France, a service which costs US$70,000. Curb weight is 1,888 kilograms (4,162 lb). This gives the car a power-to-weight ratio, according to Volkswagen Group’s figures, of 446.3 metric horsepower (328 kW; 440 bhp) per ton.
The Bugatti Veyron has a total of ten radiators.
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