法兰克福车展上最奢华的5款新车

    每隔一年，整个汽车行业都会齐聚富有传奇色彩的法兰克福汽车展。今年的车展在9月19日开始对外开放，至9月27日结束，将有210款新车在车展上发布。（已提前对媒体开放。）与过去几年的车展一样，宝马、奥迪和梅赛德斯-奔驰等汽车制造商均建造了豪华的展厅，其规模甚至超过了大多数学校。（奥迪甚至用冰雕做成了一个房间，专门用于展示Quattro品牌）。

    那么，今年最大的亮点是什么？毫无疑问是德国品牌（除了英国的宾利和法国的布加迪外，这两个品牌均属于大众集团旗下，因此还算是公平竞争）。性感的车身和更先进的技术，挑逗着我们的神经。我们多么希望这些汽车不久便能成为现实。

    最性感的超级跑车：布加迪Vision Gran Turismo

    Every other year, the car industry gears up for the legendary Frankfurt auto show. This year’s show, which opens to the public on Saturday and runs through September 27, showcases some 210 new car launches. (The press got an advance look.) As in past years, BMW, Audi and Mercede-Benz built lavish display halls larger than most schools. (Audi even has a room dedicated to the Quattro brand carved out of ice).

    So what stood out the most this year? German offerings, no surprise (with the possible exception of British Bentley and French Bugatti, which are both owned by the Volkswagen Group and therefore fair game). Radically sexy bodies and even more radical technologies are teases—promises, we hope, of the future to come—soon.

    Sexiest supercar: Bugatti Vision Gran Turismo

    汽车制造商为索尼PlayStation赛车游戏《Gran Turismo》发明的新车，往往是科幻的产物，并没有实际的零部件。但布加迪并非如此。乍一看，布加迪Vision Gran Turismo就像是一只调皮的长有翅膀的野兽，但它的碳纤维车身包裹着一辆真正的赛车。事实上，布加迪的设计总监阿希姆•安什德特表示，这款汽车也体现了布加迪计划在下一代超级跑车中采用的设计理念。

    布加迪外观设计负责人萨沙•西尔帕诺夫表示：“多数概念车只是一些视觉噪声。我们希望创造一款能够真正让人久久难忘的汽车，等你回到家后，你会不由自主地画出它的线条。”

    这款汽车确实有着美丽的线条。引人注目的侧边波浪线，同时还是必不可少的引擎冷却进气口。车身中央为隆起设计，形成一个鳍状稳定板。这款汽车配备有8个水平分布的耀眼前车灯。西尔帕诺夫认为，每一个细节都符合“外形为性能服务”这一标准。内部设计同样令人惊艳，并且更加注重性能。座椅和其他接触点均采用了一级方程式赛车鞋中使用的细毛山羊皮，可以与驾驶员完美贴合。方向盘和转向杆上安装的两个曲面屏，给驾驶员提供了180视角，可通过多个外部摄像头来观察周围的路况。

    布加迪并未公布经过调教的后置W16发动机的性能参数，不过该公司预计，Vision GT的速度可以达到每小时447.56 公里（约合每小时178.1 英里），这将打破目前量产车每小时170.49 英里的最快纪录，这项纪录由Hennessey Vemon 保持（之前的纪录由布加迪上一款超级跑车布加迪威龙创造）。

    如今，威龙的征程已经结束。布加迪宣布，量产的450辆布加迪威龙已全部售完。但愿我们很快便能一睹其继任者的真容。

    When car makers invent a new car to star in Sony’s PlayStation racing game Gran Turismo, it’s usually all science fiction and zero running parts. Not Bugatti. While on the surface the Bugatti Vision Gran Turismo is a wickedly winged beast, underneath the outrageous carbon fiber body is a very real race car. In fact, Bugatti’s designer director, Achim Anscheidt, says it is also a peek at where Bugatti intends to push the design of its next supercar.

    “Most concept cars are just a lot of visual noise,” said Sasha Selipanov, head of exterior design. “We wanted to create something that sticks in your mind and is so memorable you could go home and draw the lines yourself.”

    And what lines they are. The dramatic side swoop that doubles as a much-needed engine cooling air inlet. The center spine that runs the length of the car and creates a stability fin. The mean, eight-eyed horizontal glare of the headlights. Every detail conforms to a “form following performance” standard, according to Selipanov. The same lines are echoed within, as is the intense focus on performance. The fine-nap suede used on Formula 1 racing shoes lines the seats and other touch points to hold the pilot in place. Two curved screens—one in the steering wheel and one mounted to the steering column—give the driver a nearly 180-degree view of the track around him, thanks to multiple exterior cameras.

    Bugatti hasn’t released performance numbers on the tweaked rear-mounted W16 engine, but the company estimates that the Vision GT can hit 447.56 kph—178.1 mph—numbers that trounce the current production-car record of 170.49, held by the Hennessey Vemon (and a title Hennessey wrested from Bugatti’s last supercar, the Veyron).

    Now that the Veyron’s run has ended—Bugatti says it has sold all 450 produced—let’s hope the wait isn’t too long for a real look at its successor.