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Nov 03, 2023

Bugatti Veyron With an Aftermarket Titanium Exhaust Sounds Absurd

Uncorking all 16 cylinders produces some wild noises. The Bugatti Veyron was—and still is—a truly wild car and a triumph of engineering. It offered 16 cylinders, four turbos, and 1200 horsepower in

Uncorking all 16 cylinders produces some wild noises.

The Bugatti Veyron was—and still is—a truly wild car and a triumph of engineering. It offered 16 cylinders, four turbos, and 1200 horsepower in its most potent form. Despite all of this, though, it still had to meet noise and emissions regulations around the world. That left some fury on the table.

That's true of most supercars, which leads to a lot of people modifying them with straight-piped exhausts or extra boost. That hasn't happened as much with the Veyron, in no small part because it seven-figure price tag scares away the faint of heart. But Royalty Exotic Cars, which rents and modifies supercars, has now fitted its Veyron with a custom titanium exhaust.

While the title dubs it the world's first titanium-exhaust Veyron, the owner also acknowledges that the stock exhaust is also titanium. What's important is that the new setup deletes the resonators and is basically straight titanium pipe from the catalytic converters on back. Deleting the cats would produce an even crazier exhaust note, but Royalty Exotic Cars owner Houston Crosta says that would require dropping the engine. And since the Veyron has four pre-cats and two main catalytic converters, it'd probably require some serious piping.

If you recognize that name, by the way, it's probably because this isn't the first time Crosta has fooled around with a Veyron. Back in 2018, he converted one from all-wheel drive to rear-wheel drive and made a video involving massive burnouts. This is tamer than that, but the exhaust mod is actually something that Crosta is trying to sell to other adventurous Veyron owners.

In terms of performance benefit, I'm skeptical that this would lead to a 10-15 percent power boost as Crosta claims. While there's no doubt more power to be made with less restriction, a high-precision performance car would probably need an ECU reflash to make good use of the extra airflow. Even so, as the video shows, it sounds incredible.

Arguably the most fickle member of the Road & Track staff, Reviews Editor Mack Hogan is likely the only person to ever cross shop an ND Miata with an Isuzu Vehicross. He founded the automotive reviews section of CNBC during his sophomore year of college and has been writing about cars ever since.

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