Bugatti's Latest Veyron, Most Ridiculous Car on the Planet? 790
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Wired has an amusing writeup that accurately captures the most recent ridiculous addition to Bugatti's automobile catalog. The $2.1 million Veyron sports over 1,000 horsepower, a 16-cylinder engine, and a top speed of 245 mph. The guilty conscience comes for free. "That same cash-filled briefcase could buy seven Ferrari 599s or every single 2009 model Mercedes. You could snap up a top-shelf Maybach and employ a chauffeur until well past the apocalypse. Hell, in this economy, $2.1 million is probably enough to make you a one-man special-interest group with some serious Washington clout."
Hell yeah! (Score:5, Funny)
Top Gear Veyron goodness (Score:5, Funny)
Top Gear had an episode some time ago where they opened this beast up on the 5 mile+ straight at Volkswagen's German test facility. So damned fast - 407 kph!
From the episode: "At this speed, the tires will disintegrate in 15 minutes - That's ok, we've only got enough fuel for 12"
Guilty conscience? (Score:3, Funny)
Sorry, but if I had one, my guilty conscience would have been left behind on the road, choking on the dust from my Veyron.
Re:interesting fact (Score:4, Funny)
GM owns Volkswagen [wikipedia.org]? That is news to me.
Re:Yeah but.... (Score:5, Funny)
More importantly, at 2.1 million dollars, will it blend?
It's a dinosaur. (Score:3, Funny)
At the beginning of 2008 Pininfarina and Bolloré set up a 50-50 joint venture with the goal of designing, developing, manufacturing and distributing an electric car with revolutionary technical features and formal qualities. The company considers the BLUECAR, to be not a mere concept car but a forerunner of the vehicle which will go into production in Italy at Pininfarina starting from 2010. Production on a commercial scale will take place between 2011 and 2017, with the forecasted output by 2015 being about 60,000 units.
Link to Story. [greencarmagazine.net]
RS
Re:A bit overblown (Score:5, Funny)
"TFA waffles on about how Bugatti had to work on the structure to make it survive at 250 miles per hour, but honestly, speeds like that are just routine for twin engined aeroplanes."
Not on tarmac they aren't. You're neglecting the fact that the only thing keeping the Veyron on the road are four bits of rubber. Let's see the plane this is supposedly routine for do 250mph along the ground for any length of time. What an utterly ridiculous statement. You may as well say "The Space Shuttle does more than that easily!" It'd be as equally stupid and irrelevant.
Do 500mph in a plane, then do 100mph in a car. Which was the rougher ride? Stressed "a bit more"? Are you insane?
As a racer I'm just honestly astounded you'd make such a wrong headed comparison. I am just overwhelmed here with all the reasons you are so incredibly misguided.
As for your second equally demented paragraph, the Veyron is ROAD LEGAL! None of the cars you're talking about are.
Good god it's amazing you can dress yourself. Do you accidentally find yourself trying to wear bananas on your feet? Or perhaps a melon instead of a tie? Because honestly, your comparisons make me wonder what else you get so easily confused by. If you think the Veyron is comparable to a plane then...
I'm sorry, I'm just utterly baffled by you. But then if you read this you're probably going to try and type your reply on a bowl of soup. After all it's similar to a keyboard.
Re:Yeah but.... (Score:5, Funny)
It comes with Windows Mobile on the navigation system.
Re:Just in time for my midlife crysis! (Score:5, Funny)
Bugatti Veyron = 27 MP3's (Score:5, Funny)
Kinda puts it in perspective..............
Finance a car loan (Score:5, Funny)
Hell, in this economy, $2.1 million is probably enough to make you a one-man special-interest group with some serious Washington clout."
It's a car well suited to bankers who profited from the financial scandals and government bailouts.
Think of the Virgens! (Score:3, Funny)
Why? The Veyron is an incredible piece of engineering. Bugatti sell them at a LOSS if I recall. The workmanship is astounding.
Not only that, but according to the Wired article,
they had to sacrifice 100 virgins and have the production facility in Molsheim, France, blessed by druids.
I completely disagree with sacrificing virgins, so anybody who buys this car is implicitly supporting the destruction of virgins.
My question (Score:5, Funny)
What advantages does this motor car have over, say, a train -- which I could also afford?
Re:If I ever see.. (Score:2, Funny)
Real geeks put diamond dust on the wipers =D
Re:Yeah but.... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:In real units... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Top Gear Veyron goodness (Score:5, Funny)
African or European?
Re:Hell yeah! (Score:4, Funny)
Thanks. From now on, for any car I buy I'm going to calculate a constant times the storage space divided by the top speed. I mean, given our knowledge, how can you commit to a car without knowing its bandwidth?
Re:It is not about the top speed... (Score:3, Funny)
Actually he's pretty indicative of the average Porsche driver.
Re:Think of the Virgens! (Score:5, Funny)
I completely disagree with sacrificing virgins, so anybody who buys this car is implicitly supporting the destruction of virgins.
Male virgins, yes. Now give me my car!
That is why he is against the destruction of virgins... self preservation
Re:Yeah but.... (Score:3, Funny)
Boy would you be pissed seeing a blue screen after you signed over 2.1 big bobs
Re:At 400 km the fuel runs out in only 12 minutes (Score:2, Funny)
Re:If I ever see.. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Yeah but.... 1/4 the price alternative (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Hell yeah! (Score:4, Funny)
But well, this is /. after all where we argue about pointless points (myself included).
I must disagree with that
Re:Guilty conscience? (Score:3, Funny)
If you mean "fruitful" in the sense of "be fruitful and multiply" [biblegateway.com] -- i.e., go get yourself laid -- buying a Bugatti Veyron is probably the most fruitful thing you could possibly do ;-)
Re:Yeah but.... 1/4 the price alternative (Score:4, Funny)
But they are quite good at coming up with ridiculous car analogies. Also I might as well mention that I would be willing to cut off a testicle in exchange for a Veyron.
Re:If I ever see.. (Score:3, Funny)
that's just dumb
my wife has a Lotus. We park it in the driveway (not garaged). She drives it to work every day and parks it in the parking lot next to all the other cars.
if you are so worried about the car that you cant enjoy it, why the hell would you buy it?
Re:Top Gear Veyron goodness (Score:5, Funny)
That is admittedly a very sexy looking car... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:If I ever see.. (Score:3, Funny)
Personally, I'd rather Kim Jong-Il and the middle eastern royalty that you hate so much spend their money on cars made by Europeans than what they usually spend it on.
Missing important accessory (Score:2, Funny)