The Bugatti Veyron Super Sport is one of those cars best understood by what its maker chose to prioritise. Bugatti fits the Veyron Super Sport with 8.0L Quad-Turbo W16 and AWD. Output is 1,184 hp; listed weight is 4,052 lb; price starts around $2.25M. The catalog lists 0–60 mph in 2.5 seconds and a 258 mph top speed.
Under the bonnet sits a 8.0L Quad-Turbo W16, sending 1,184 hp to a AWD driveline. That's enough for 2.5 seconds to 60 mph and a 258 mph maximum — figures that say as much about the gearing and aerodynamics as they do about the engine. At roughly 4,052 lb it carries about 3.4 lb per horsepower, which is the number that actually predicts how it feels on a road rather than on a spec sheet.
Mechanically it's a conventional, well-understood package rather than an experiment, which is a large part of why it works as an everyday car.
Hypercars are the segment where engineering budgets stop being questioned: carbon structures, active aerodynamics and drivetrains developed for a production run measured in dozens rather than thousands. At around $2,250,880, the Veyron Super Sport is priced as a considered, low-volume purchase, and our value score of 6.5/10 reflects what you get for that against its direct rivals rather than against the market as a whole.
Owned properly, it rewards drivers who care about how a car does something more than how fast it did it.