- Olga Kokorina
- Translated by Olga Apetenok
- Ru Fr
Car beauty contest. Which car is the most beautiful in the world?
‘You may not be the fastest, but you must be the most beautiful’ was the motto for a car beauty contest held within the framework of the Paris Automobile Festival. The beauty contest is just one of 16 nominations where automotive experts chose the best representative. So beauty is still not the main thing, but very important in the car. After all, we often choose not with our mind, but with our hearts. And the heart begins to beat faster when you see the true beauty… The mind turns off when you look at graceful curved lines, a catching appearance or a playful smile. We are talking about cars, and what did you think? Although choosing a car is somewhat similar to choosing a partner.
The Bugatti Bolide is the most beautiful hypercar
The Mercedes-AMG One, GMA T.50, Bac Mono 2 and Bugatti Bolide competed in the hypercar category. The latter is an experimental model, and only 40 cars will be assembled. Bugatti is a French brand, and a true Parisian simply could not lose in Paris. The car defeated everyone. The hypercar is equipped with an 8-liter W16 engine, which develops 1,600 hp while using 98 petrol, although it is supposed to use racing fuel with the 110 rating, in which case, the crazy engine produces 1,850 hp and 1,850 Nm, which with a ‘dry’ weight of 1,240 kg provides only 670 grams of weight for each horsepower. The car is 4,756 mm long, 1,998 mm wide and 995 mm high, with a wheelbase of 2,750 mm. The production Bugatti Chiron comes with an engine featuring four new turbines and a new cooling system. The 7-speed gearbox and all-wheel drive system have been upgraded for the tasks of the track car.
The Bugatti Bolide will cost $4.6 million. This is a research project that was created with one goal in mind: to find out what happens when you make a track-oriented hypercar using a W16 engine and a lightweight body with the highest possible downforce.
It is the fastest, lightest and most extreme car in the history of the brand and is designed for the track, which is why it will be equipped with the full range of safety systems required by the FIA rules. Work on production cars is underway, but deliveries will begin only in 2024, so no more detail are available.
Beautiful candidates
- Mercedes-AMG Project ONE
The Mercedes-AMG Project ONE is a two-seater car that will fulfill the dream of racing engineers for the first time and will introduce the latest and most efficient hybrid technologies of Formula 1 to the wide public. The manufacturer claims that the model will transfer the latest and most efficient Formula 1 hybrid technology almost one to one from the track to the street. The over 1,000 horsepower hybrid powertrain is a unit of a 1.6-liter V6 petrol engine combines with four electric motors: one integrated into the turbocharger, the other mounted directly to the combustion engine, and the two remaining motors driving the front wheels. The engine is coupled with a 8-speed AMG SPEEDSHIFT transmission. The maximum speed of the car is more than 350 km/h, and acceleration to 200 km/h occurs in less than 6 seconds.
- GMA T.50 Coupe
In the UK and around the world, Gordon Murray is famous for the creation of the legendary McLaren F1 supercar. And with his new brainchild, the mid-engine GMA T.50 coupe, he worked on the same principles, trying to create an exterior that will be relevant in 10 years. The exterior of the GMA T.50 is laconic, and its curb weight does not exceed 986 kg. The car comes with a 4.0-liter T.50 naturally aspirated V12 Cosworth engine, which revs up to 12,100 rpm and produces 663 hp and 467 Nm. The car is rear-wheel drive, and the gearbox is a 6-speed manual Xtrac. A unique feature of the supercar is the active aerodynamics system, which distributes air flows according to one of six modes.
- BAC Mono 2
The British company BAC (Briggs Automotive Company) produces a single-seat track car called Mono with a body made of carbon and graphene, which makes it weigh 555 kg. Both the magnesium chassis and the titanium exhaust system contribute to the feather weight. The sports car is equipped with a 2.5-liter 4-cylinder engine producing 345 hp. The Mono accelerates to 100 km/h in 2.5 seconds, while its maximum speed reaches 274 km/h.
