Veyron going cheap

As crumple-zones go, I wonder how much that one works out to per inch...?

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No one else was hurt but police have reported the Bugatti driver for driving without due care and attention.

Hope his insurance papers were in order too. Not be cheap to tidy that up. Might be woth getting some driving lessons in a high powered car with someone who knows, on the quiet. Even rwd cars without gazillions of BHP can be a bit twitchy in the wet, and it hardly increases your pub credibility when explaining how you lost it doing all of 40mph.

/dl

40 mph + 1000bhp = Astra van. Saying that it only says it was a 40 mph zone NOT that the Veyron was being driven at that speed.

I drove an Audi RS6 with 500 bhp,a slip of the foot and it could go anywhere,god knows what it would be like in the wet.

There is a kind of warm feeling when you see a car like this bent. Not that it will effect the owner ,who one assumes can afford the repairs or at least the insurance premiums.

If the chassis of the car is carbon-fibre then it might not be repairable.

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There is a kind of warm feeling when you see a car like this bent. Not that it will effect the owner ,who one assumes can afford the repairs or at least the insurance premiums.

Rumour has it that it was being driven by a hirer who'd paid 20k for the privilege.... Could be urban myth I suppose!

Just finished watching a Top Gear article where they took a Veyron to it's limit on a VW test track....407kph (253mph)....Oh my Gosh...

It's not really a Bugatti though is it?

It's a bloody expensive Volkswagen.

Does that mean that the last real Bentley was made iin 1931?

ATB from Fredrik

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Originally posted by Fredrik_Fiske:
Does that mean that the last real Bentley was made iin 1931?

To be fair, Bentley has at least been producing cars under that badge, no matter who owned the company, from when it started to now. The Bugatti name suddenly appeared from nowhere after decades.

Exactly that.

It's a rather cynical use of a great name from the past.

Two-tone paint and a bit of engine-turning on the dash the Bugatti doth not make.

It's hand built in France.It's grossly over expensive. Only the stupid rich can afford it.

Sounds like a Bugatti to me.

H

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It's not really a Bugatti though is it?

It's a bloody expensive Volkswagen.

Ettore would turn in his grave if he knew what was done in his name.

Just as an argument. If Naim had gone bust in the 1980's and been reinvented as a brand excersise today by Sony. Would you have bought it?

JohanR

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Originally posted by BigH47:
It's hand built in France.It's grossly over expensive. Only the stupid rich can afford it.

Sounds like a Bugatti to me.

H

The engineering, innovation, performance and pure design of a real Bugatti is sublime. Ettore Bugatti was a genius and a sculptor. (Most Bugattis were the equivalent of modern-day F1 cars btw, not pimped-up luxobarges)

JohanR is spot-on with a superb analogy.

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Originally posted by JohanR:

Just as an argument. If Naim had gone bust in the 1980's and been reinvented as a brand excersise today by Sony. Would you have bought it?

JohanR

Yes, if it sounded good enough to make me want to buy it.

The Veyron is a sports car. It does what the makers say it will.

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The engineering, innovation, performance and pure design of a real Bugatti is sublime. Ettore Bugatti was a genius and a sculptor. (Most Bugattis were the equivalent of modern-day F1 cars btw, not pimped-up luxobarges)

So you don't think the engineering, innovation and performance of the Veyron is out of the ordinary?

Not especially.

Nor am I impressed by the Golf GTI lighting switch.

The driver of this Audi seems to have much to be thankful for.

I know a guy that survived (though he didn't exactly walk away from) a head-on with an articulated truck at 100 kmh. The car was folded in half over him so that the front axle was over the rear axle.

He was on the way home from an Amway conference. Still not sure if the two things were connected...

Pure chance, the driver surviving that Audi, and nothing to do with the safety aspect of the car.

An old g/f of mine came off the motorway at 65mph in a 2CV which then hit no less than six trees. She fell asleep at the wheel (difficult in a 2CV!) and made no attempt to steer or brake. The car was bounced from one tree to the next like a pinball game, and disintegrated everywhere except where she was sitting. She was picked up by an amazed motorist who'd witnessed the whole thing, and came out smiling with no injuries at all, except for mild acid attack to her clothing where the battery landed in her lap. The front wheel was bent round on its leading-arm and ended up between her shins, and wreckage was spread over half a mile.

Her number just wasn't up that day!