According to InsideLine, Bugatti plans to unveil its Targa variant of the Veyron next month at the 2008 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance in Monterey, California. The open-air hyper-car will use a removable hardtop, while a fabric cover can be used in its place if the heavens decide to open up mid-jaunt. IL is reporting that the chassis will be heavily reinforced to cope with the loss of the crucial structural component. Production will begin next year along side the Targa’s fixed-roof predecessor, and with the current Veyron going for around $2 million, don’t expect to get your 217-mph (limited) top speed kicks without paying another $250,000 on top of the Veyron’s base-price.

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AutoExpress has revealed that production of the open-air exotica will be limited to just 80 units compared to the coupe’s comparatively ample run of 300 cars. The cost of letting the sun shine through your Veyron’s dome will also be more prohibitive, with a price tag creeping up on £900,000 compared to the £840,000 cost of the coupe. As with most open-air cars, the Veyron’s chassis will be made beefier to cope with the loss of rigidity caused by a big hole in its roof. As such, the new car will weigh more than than the record-setting original. Top speed will therefore be relatively limited, if one can call a 217-mph top speed limited. Then again, as we learned while driving the car ourselves, every car is limited compared to the original Veyron.

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Bugatti will make a so-called “targa” version of its Veyron supercar next year, a Volkswagen source said. The VW subsidiary plans to offer a variant with a removable hardtop “because there was no other solution which could fit with its safety cage,” the source, a former Bugatti executive, said. There will be no storage space in the car for the roof, the source said. Bugatti spokesman Georges Keller confirmed the brand is developing a Veyron convertible. Bugatti is not saying how many Veyron convertibles it will build. It plans to make only 300 units of the 1.3 million euros Veyron coupe

(source: automotivenews)

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