{"id":100,"date":"2007-10-25T15:40:18","date_gmt":"2007-10-25T20:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=100"},"modified":"2015-04-05T02:15:08","modified_gmt":"2015-04-05T06:15:08","slug":"bentley-swaps-first-veyron-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=100","title":{"rendered":"Bentley Swaps First Veyron Engine"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Veyron<\/a>(image links to Veyron wiki page)<\/p>\n

We posed the question a while back<\/a> and it seems Bentley stepped up to the plate first. There is no confirmation on if this car will be put in production but it seems there will be at least one Arnage<\/a> using a 1K HP FI engine.<\/p>\n

I still hold on to hope a performance minded team will build another car around this awesome platform. Who wants to shoehorn this into a Caparo T1<\/a>?<\/p>\n

Source: Autocar<\/a> via Jalopnik<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(image links to Veyron wiki page) We posed the question a while back and it seems Bentley stepped up to the plate first. There is no confirmation on if this car will be put in production but it seems there will be at least one Arnage using a 1K HP FI engine. I still hold… Read More »Bentley Swaps First Veyron Engine<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engines"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":34,"url":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=34","url_meta":{"origin":100,"position":0},"title":"Bugatti Veyron Engine Swap?","author":"swaptastic","date":"May 25, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"The reason this is listed with a question mark is because it is just that, are we ever going to see the massive quad-turbocharged DOHC 64-valve W-16 in something besides a Veyron? 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