World's fastest production automobile!

All the time i was watching the vid i kept wondering what happens when bambi jumps out onto the track in front of this car. Probably
just vaporize the deer and car both.
 
hmm I'd rather take Crockett's Daytona over it any day

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or the Testarossa for that matter,

Miami Vice - Testarossa episode - YouTube

as alteast I could use it everyday without having to spend 30 grand on a tire if I got a flat, plus well I wouldnt spend a fraction of that 1.6 million aquiring it in either case and the daytona compaired to the veyron is quite practical.


plus why would I spend 1.6 million on a car thats so blandly modernly round looking and can only be used in europe on the autostrada or autobahn and even then its only going to tops reach a 130 with me in it as the brain reaction time above that required to avoid an accident while driving that speed is just insane.

you really couldnt make a more impractical car, even from a supercar stand point, plus the most fun you have is from 30 - 90 in a car anyways, a 120 if your drag racing or a 140 racing on a closed track

and even then you could buy a lamborghini miura for 1/5th the price of that thing, now thats a super car and a true work of kinetic art, the veyron is just a luxury car that so happens it can do an insane speed top and is dressed up like one of the old real bugattis from the 1930's.

and yeah it may be the concorde in a way like clarkson described it but its also just a plane without wings that you cant use anywhere, its just so utterly pointless.

plus 1.6 million can buy you alotta great guns, lots of them.
 
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Testarossa may be old and obsolete now, but that flat 12 engine is still pretty dang cool.

There is one in my neighborhood and the sound of that thing is awesome.

Great vids guys, thanks!!
 
Testarossa may be old and obsolete now, but that flat 12 engine is still pretty dang cool.

There is one in my neighborhood and the sound of that thing is awesome.

Great vids guys, thanks!!

yeah and its got a proper manual box on it, none of that modern electronical **** and the outside stlying namely the bumper can be redone by koenig and the stokes can easily be trimmed back to be more flush with the doors and the spoilers painted a gloss color to keep the original look while making it seem as cool as the daytona and also make it look more modern looking without ruining the look

basically 3 changes to the exterior and it can be brought up to the daytonas level and hell who wants to drive a modern sports car now anyways, they all look the same to me now, their just too obsessed with aerodynamics to craft a great looking car anymore.

I mean what happened did they replace the styling department with a load of engineers? styling should never take a backseat to aerodynamics in car design, it should be either 50/50 or 70/30 style and aerodynamics, lately for the past 10 years it sems to be 20 style and 80 aerodynamics.
 
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Wonderful car and I wish I had the bucks for one. It was designed and made by VW, and I wonder how many revs old Ettore is turning up in his grave at the thought of his name being attached to a car produced by the lowly VW people.
 
from what I understand they try their best to make it seem like the place that the cars are made are the same as they used to be in the 30's, which was on a horsefarm of some sort, although that place was turned into a vinery and is probably far cleaner than what it was in the 30's and it all feels too quaint and frankly stuck up

hence the leather straps and some of the construction methods used on the original cars, which was half aviation and and half horse racing, something that hasnt been properly transfered to the modern ones although I did like the bugatti EB110 from about 20 years ago.


but ironically the thing they did get right for the veyron was the top speed as the bugattis of the 1930's were the fastest cars around at that time when most cars could only do 80 tops on a really fast car, their cars were doing a 140, followed by bentley which ettorie described as the fastest trucks and actually and ironically thats pretty much what the modern bugattis are best described as, the fasted trucks/luxury cars, not proper race cars like they used to be like which is bascailly what the Koenigsegg is best described as, a true modern bugatti as etorrie would have wanted.

and ontop of that you cant really shake the feeling that the veyron is just a really pumped up modern bentley, its just not a proper buggati.

its really a damn shame though that the last of the bugattis wanted to make cars like that again in the early 50's but died in a motorcycle accident before he could give it a shot, probably would have made a hell of a rival to the mercedes 300 SL gullwing back then that would have been an instant classic.
 
At 1.6M they still loose money on each one sold.

Why did they have to build the Super Sport?
Because an American company made a faster car and they couldn't let those lowly americans have the world fastest car.

Being rich enough to afford one still does NOT make one worthy of owning one. Ask the guy who parked his in a Houston bayou.

And why did they pick Captain Slow to do the high speed run of all the Top Gear presenters?
 
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That car is useless! There is nowhere in this country that you or I could go to reach those speeds in that car.(legally)

I'll take the worlds fastest CTS-V wagon or sedan at 5% of the cost of the Veyron.
 
Cut-down Model 92 Rossi lever-action "pistols" are useless, too, but they are selling like hotcakes - Steve McQueen used one as "The Bounty Hunter" and Steve McQueen was cool. Hell, even I want one, and I can't think of any earthly use for it.

It would be cool to have one of those Bugattis sitting in my garage - a drool rag hanging on a nail would look nice next to it.

John
 
Cut-down Model 92 Rossi lever-action "pistols" are useless, too, but they are selling like hotcakes - Steve McQueen used one as "The Bounty Hunter" and Steve McQueen was cool. Hell, even I want one, and I can't think of any earthly use for it.

It would be cool to have one of those Bugattis sitting in my garage - a drool rag hanging on a nail would look nice next to it.

John


true I mean its like anything else, its highly subjective and one mans dream car seems like another womans nightmare, although Ironically I know one woman who likes the MV daytona and one who doesnt get it at all

so its really just all based on your personal taste and theres no wrong answer

its just that well I just dont feel its a proper bugatti, I mean there are some truly beautiful ones out there from the 1930's

Jay Leno's Garage - Bugatti Type 51 | Bugatti

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and this just doesnt feel like it should even have that badge on it, plus tops you need a max speed of a 170 - 190 for europe anyways, 200 - 240 just sounds frankly stupid, idiotic and completely useless

and even at max speed the veyron will run out of gas in about 20 minutes, so you cant even realistically cover 250 miles in an hour without filling up about 3 times and thats with a 30 gallon tank I think


and given the choice of having a daytona, miura, testarossa for about 1/2 the price of the bugatti I just dont really see the apeal of it, its purely a status symbol and that idiot tom cruse owns one too.

and I wouldnt want to be associated with the hollywood riff raff of today by driving one and certainly not Tom "Moron" Cruise

however Don has always had good taste in guns and cars so with him I'd dont mind that fact plus he even had a 71' cuda in one of his shows, complete with a shaker hood, one of my favorite cars of the muscle car era.

but thats just me but even looking at this as something like a .50 call desert eagle or magnum 500 of cars it still seems even more impractical than those being used for self defense.

its just when you come right down to it completely and utterly useless, where as the testarossa, miura and daytona could be used for what they were ment for as a long distance cruser on the autobahn and the autostrada to use a veyron as a long distance cruser on the autobahn like the above cars would be an utterly pointless exercise since its always running half cocked and it could never be used for its full potental regardless if its on a speed limitless road or on a track

plus actually the miura is more like a regular car given its design problems.

although actually theres an interesting idea, given its only pulling a low number of revs at about a 110 and a 120 mph, what would its range be at those speeds? would it be better than the other cars like the F458 italia at that crusing speed range wise?
 
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When I saw this car in Top Gear in action, I was in love.
But even when I trade in my old Peugeot 406, I don't think that I can afford it.
 
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Oh well, even if I had the money - this car I would never buy...

+1

I still wouldn't be able to keep up with the upkeep of it. $75,000 for new tires, mount and balance. Couldn't drive it on the street due to fear for damaging a $1.6 million car. You can also forgot about any insurance company covering that thing
 
This is not really a production automobile.


Not true. Bugatti Has a production run of 300 on the Veyron model. The last 40 of the 300 are SS models. An exotic car such as the Bugatti is hand built and limited. Those don't fall under the "production" category as say Ford, or Chevy as they are mass-producers. The Guinness book of world records says it a production car.
 
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