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And I expect those 2 comments belong to you and no one else has an opinion? A lecture on the speed limit... OK lets all buy sports cars and drive 35 miles per hour all day. Also lets not forget to communicate about tailgating, wearing our seatbelt, not use our cell phones, do a comprehensive safety inspection on each and ever start up. I could list a least a 100 things. It might be better to just leave my investment parked in the garage and take mass transportation. I believe in laws as well, but there are times that one can enjoy certain freedoms without harming anyone. I hope with continued success that I might possibly buy a car like this vs. just critique it.
I am the original reviewer, and I honestly did drive in the car with my friend. Choose not to believe it if you wish, but that's your problem.
And yes, the car has two seats.
I gotta say guys, exotic cars are just toys. after having them for so long, 'its just another set of wheels.' the only thing that REALLY matters after that is acceleration, seeing as you can't realistically reach top speed on the highway anyhow.
Here in the UK we know the owner of the Veyron who loaned it to Top Gear for their road test/race. VAG would not provide a loaner. It is quick as a fast road bike, but seats two so feels faster as your view as a passenger is just the world fast forwarding in front of you. There are plenty of places to break into the 150 club, too many :) Finish wise it has that "hand made" feel to it though and is still beset with niggling problems that will eventually be sorted out. Many were sorted by visiting engineers, but some require a factory return. In fact one of the first of these was to get it professionally polished to bring up to the level it should have been when it was delivered.
So comforting to know VW can't even deliver a $1.2 million car properly. I guess Bentley is the only brand they own that has any type of quality, except for maybe Skoda.
Just another set of wheels??? I switch vehicles constantly, but love driving my 2 seat convertible in my states 12 month a year sunshine. I could drive my SUV as my one and only vehicle, but...that would be just another vehicle as you say!
As far as I am concerned, there is no point in owning a sports car anywhere upwards of a Mazda Miata (MX5). Reason being, of course, because this is one of the few 'performance cars' that can really perform on public roads without leaving too much excess performance beyond legal limits.
Do I think these cars are stupid? No! I think they're brilliant! There is no better piece of engineering... in the world! But if you can't push it to your limits (even if you can afford the car) why bother?
You know how much is cost VW to make a veyron 5 million dollars. But they know no one else will make a car like this again and they will hold the title for a very long time.
You are in the millionaires club baby. If you can afford it nothing less will suffice.
All the comments regarding the Veyron's ability to be driven at high speeds and the location to do so... Nobody has mentioned the long, straight and zero speed limits associated with the highways in the Northern Territory in Australia. Ah life down under!!!
Guys, for God's sake grow up, if he says he drove it, so what? It's not an uncommon statement now! I work in Honda's Wako Fundamental Technology Research Center. We have all tested the bugatti on our tracks and are quite simply blown away by it. The DSG gearbox is incredibly smooth, but equally incredibly fiddly to use.
Honda are developing a challenger to this crown, but it is only in development and design stages as yet, to be honest we don't know if it could ever make the road, as the cost is very high.
I admit the Bugatti will remain the champion machine for a few years yet, but will be overthrown! How long the wait will be, I don't know. I don't even work in the dept that's doing the designs!
Very impressed with the power, Love the way it eats up the track at the Nurburgring circuit, pulling like a high speed bullet train and determined to headbutt the Horizon like a possessed demon. And what a noise it makes in the process, loud enough to give ordinary people nightmares with their eyes wide open!, Who needs a stereo when you have a soundtrack this good.!, Beautifull!, I am a driving God!!! and yes, I do own one... well I did.. untill my alarm clock went off at 6.30am and it was time to get up and go to work...
I work for a bugatti dealership in america and we take our first customer deliveries in late june. I just rode in the car today for the first time and the car is spectacular. The acceleration is unbelievable and it pushes your insides against the seat and the car stops just as quickly. If I had the means I would quickly buy the car because even though the price is insane, once you mash the gas it makes it worth it. Just though i'd comment.
Veyron...Big and nasty. I find it highly unlikely if the majority of people can even imagine sitting in this supreme automobile. Fact... the car is sensational, to be considered a "production" supercar is one thing, but I dare to question even the most professional driver/collector that if one who can buy such a machine (0-100km/h = 2.9seconds) has the money and skill to do it. To buy a serious straight line car AKA the king of straight line performance... A top fuel dragster is and always will be the scariest and most sickening ride of all. The average driver would struggle to pull any potential top line performance figures out of any car. Let alone something that costs and to maintain something so powerful. My view is simple, the dreamers who crap on about certain unobtainable cars wouldn't have the faintest on how to drive it, ah and yes buy it.
As for the price of the car... it is certainly worth it. It costs $5,000,000 to build a Bugatti Veyron... each one. Bugatti is selling them at a HUGE loss... the car is a statement of technological masterpiece though. In the long run it will be worth it... but to say the car is overpriced is just false information. It is also undoubtedly faster than a McLaren... the numbers don't lie.
As for the money being put to better use in a charity or whatever... I don't know about your friend... he might be breaking the bank to buy his. But all the people I know who buy cars like this have already put tens of millions into charities. This isn't meant to be personal, but I find that most people who say something like that have given nothing, or very little to charities themselves. They spend 1-3 YEARS worth of wages on their car... when the people who usually buy these cars spend about 1-3 months of wages on their car.