Bugatti Veyron

[dunc]

Is this for sale to the general public or is it just a prototype? Its this months car on the Top Gear freebie calender, looks like it might be nippy enough.

Dunc.

[SFC]

You can get them now, not cheap though

http://www.autoscout24.de/home/index/list.asp?make=15&modellike=veyron&submitas24=Search

Mad spec

1001 HP
16 Cylinders
7993 cm³
406 km/h
3.2 sec.
7-speed
RRP EUR 750,000

[dunc]

Yeah, 0-186mph in 14seconds is not bad - its no s13 though........ :rolleyes:

[ATrull]

the engine is apparently two Vs

so it's a W16 :)

[seb]

I'm amazed you don't all already know about this car :) It's production is being put back and back and back due to problems with the cooling I think. It's a widely known joke that it'll never arrive - do none of you read sniffpetrol? :)

www.bugatti-cars.de/

[Jonny]

The road version won't be 1000+ BHP though, it will be something like 700, and the top end will be limited.. :wack:

If you want to take it out for a full blown run, VW will fly techies out to remove the limiter, up the power and supply special wheels / tyres, let you have a blat, then put it back afterwards *... Bit crazy really, I guess they don't want a bad rep with people getting blowouts on the autobahn at 200+!

*at a huge cost, probably... But if you can afford a Veyron, you can prob afford it...

[JB]

VEYRON DELAYED FOREVER

The Bugatti Veyron was designed as a 1001 horsepower flagship for the entire Volkswagen Group. Now, following the cancellation of a planned press launch whilst the steering was re-worked and a downgrading of the projected top speed claims, VW insiders claim the dramatic range-topper will be delayed 'until the end of time'.
'This is not entirely unexpected,' claims Professor Ken Freeply of Nigel Havers College, Kettering, who knows this stuff. 'I think their first mistake was in getting a small boy to lay out the engineering parameters. Whenever I ask my seven-year-old son to draw a supercar he always claims the power output is "a thousand" and that the top speed is "250mph". The difference is, where I'd tell him not to be so ****ing stupid, Volkswagen set about trying to meet those inept kitchen table projections.'
Many industry observers were surprised to spot a small footnote in early Veyron publicity material which read; 'Warning: The value of insanely large power and performance projections may go down as well as up' but even they have been shocked to see that the Bugatti's key stats seem in some way to have been accidentally index linked to the dollar or something.
After rapidly rising to foolishly large amounts, Prof. Freeply now believes that key elements of the W16-powered hypercar are in recession and he has calculated where they may end up, if by some miracle the car ever goes on sale: 'By my reckoning the eventual power output and top speed will fall by around 10 percent per quarter which means, taking an optimistic on-sale date sometime in 2079, that the Veyron will produce 69bhp and have a top speed of 91mph,' he said. 'I also predict a similar downgrading of the car's appearance so that within 50 years it will be a small three door hatchback, something like a garishly two-tone Lupo'. Professor Freeply later denied that he was simply 'making it up'.

[SFC]

:D

Got to say the whole thing leaves me :indiff:

[yeager]

I dont care what performance it has, it looks great :)

http://www.sxoc.com/vbb/attachment.php?attachmentid=9900&stc=1

[Dave_S]

PMSL @ sniffpetrol quote :D

Dave