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Posted by satchmo on Sat Dec 10th at 5:55pm 2005

253 MPH and Still a Little Late

The Bugatti Veyron is a superlative on wheels. But for VW, which spent six years and about half a billion dollars, it may be obsession run wild.
By Dan Neil
Times Staff Writer

December 10, 2005

PALERMO, Sicily ? At 200 mph, the Bugatti Veyron pounds a beautiful, howling hole in the sweltering haze hanging over the motorway.

This, the fastest production car in the world, is broad and low, an enameled ellipse in a spiffy two-tone paint scheme. By comparison, its now-vanquished supercar rivals, such as the Ferrari Enzo and McLaren F1, are all edges and blades and angles, like F-16 fighter planes or Japanese stunt kites.

The Veyron is not, strictly speaking, the fastest car I've ever driven, but the one that's faster had a jet engine and a parachute. The guardrail to my right is blurred into a dirty stream of quicksilver. Houses fly by before my brain has time to register the word "house."

About nine seconds ago, I was dawdling at 100 mph. Then I squeezed the throttle. The seven-speed dual-clutch gearbox clicked twice, the engine took a huge lung-busting toke of atmosphere through its twin roof snorkels ? and then things got interesting. Something slammed me from behind and I realize it was the seat. Captain, it appears we have fallen nose-first into a wormhole.

Two-hundred mph. And I'm not even in top gear.

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Posted by Loco on Sat Dec 10th at 6:14pm 2005

I've got a feeling this is due to be reviewed on Top Gear tomorrow night here in the UK.

That's absurdly fast - a sort of heavy version of the Ariel Atom.


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Posted by Mephs on Sat Dec 10th at 6:43pm 2005

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About nine seconds ago, I was dawdling at 100 mph.

Should he really be writing while driving at such pant wetting speeds? :P

Yeah, I'll be watchin topgear myself.




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Posted by wil5on on Sun Dec 11th at 3:10am 2005

Its 400km/hr, and thats with a limiter.


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Posted by Pvt.Scythe on Sun Dec 11th at 11:53am 2005

I'd probably s**t in my pants at that speed in any car, but I'd still want to feel it. :P



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Posted by Crapceeper on Sun Dec 11th at 12:06pm 2005

Holy smokes that's fast. I wonder who could be in such a hurry?

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Posted by satchmo on Sun Dec 11th at 4:52pm 2005

The marquee top speed for that car is 253 mph.



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Posted by Dr Brasso on Sun Dec 11th at 5:21pm 2005

i have a 68 firebird 400 in my garage that runs like a striped ass ape....ive buried the needle in it (some years ago i might add, during the "folly of my youth" ) which tops out from the factory @ 160 mph indicated.....still had about a quarter of pedal stroke to go, when i basicly chickened out and shut it down.....solid car, kickass top end, and thats the closet ive come to s**tting myself without being shot at... <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/heee.gif"> havent done it since, and i wont.

my testes shrink up just thinking about it.... <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_lol.gif">

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Posted by satchmo on Sun Dec 11th at 7:56pm 2005

One of my friends is a race car driver. He routinely races over 200 mph. I just can't imagine doing that myself. One wrong move, and I'd be dead.


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Posted by Underdog on Sun Dec 11th at 8:03pm 2005

? quoting satchmo
One of my friends is a race car driver. He routinely races over 200 mph. I just can't imagine doing that myself. One wrong move, and I'd be dead.

You can do that at less than 1 mph. Forget to take out the trash just once and you'll see. <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_lol.gif">




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Posted by Dr Brasso on Mon Dec 12th at 2:10am 2005

yeah, but UD, theres a big difference between hitting the wall at daytona at 200 odd miles per hour, and being killed by your wife for running over the trash cans......

.......ummm..........on second thought, maybe not <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/heee.gif">

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Posted by Loco on Mon Dec 12th at 7:53am 2005

I watched Top Gear last night, and the snippets of information about this car are really interesting:
  • It costs the company ?5 million to make, but they sell it for ?800,000 - it's just made as a technical test
  • It has 1000 horsepower
  • It has 10 radiators and the engine is exposed
  • The gear box itself is a feat of engineering, having to cope with the same forces as an F1 car and transfering that much horsepower to the road, and at the same time lasting 10-20 years and weighing about the same as a bag of flour
  • It can beat James May in a plane



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Posted by wil5on on Mon Dec 12th at 9:47am 2005

? quoting Loco
It can beat James May in a plane

Most cars can beat a plane from a standing start, and most light aircraft cant go as fast as that car's top speed anyway. Also, I'm pretty sure James May isnt a great pilot :P




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Posted by ReNo on Mon Dec 12th at 5:02pm 2005

Most roads don't let you travel at 254mph though wilson <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif"> It was a race from some place in Italy to London by the way, not along a runway or something in case thats what you were thinking <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">




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Posted by satchmo on Mon Dec 12th at 6:04pm 2005

It can go from zero to 60 mph in 2.1 second.

Now, that's impressive.




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Posted by Crono on Mon Dec 12th at 7:50pm 2005

2.9 second, says Bugatti (Not that you'd notice while driving.)
It can get to 186mph in 14 seconds.

I want one (I <3 non-bug/Golf Volkswagen). I would never have to stop for a cop ever again. What are they going to do? Catch me?

Also because the car is electronically locked at a maximum of 400 km/hr (248mph) ... that electronic lock and be removed and the fuel injection timing can be more efficient ... the car could go 450 km/hr (280mph) with no trouble.

$1.3 million isn't much more than a Mclaren F1 ($1 million), Well, no, $300,000 is a lot, but if you're spending a million dollars on a car, it wouldn't be that much of a difference.

Still nowhere near the speed of sound :


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Posted by Myrk- on Mon Dec 12th at 8:00pm 2005

Apparantly if you race a bugatti and a McLaren F1 to 200Mph, the Bugatti will win, even if the McLaren starts the race at 120Mph! Btw the Bugatti looks like this if no ones seen it-

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I personally prefer this uber beast-

It's the Jag XJ220, another kinda experiment formed from thier F1/F2 car of the time with a nice body. Reaches about 220Mph, so not much slower. It also doesn't use quite so much fuel, need 8 radiators, or require a spoiler to keep it on the ground! On top of that it only costs less than ?200,000, rather than Bugatti and its ?841,000 (apparantly each Bugatti costs ?5million to make!)




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Posted by ReNo on Mon Dec 12th at 8:16pm 2005

Yeah I can't say I'm a huge fan of the new Bugatti visually, but it's not like you'd say ask for the receipt if you unwrapped one in Chrismas morning <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">




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Posted by Forceflow on Mon Dec 12th at 8:33pm 2005

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Yeah I can't say I'm a huge fan of the new Bugatti visually, but it's not like you'd say ask for the receipt if you unwrapped one in Chrismas morning <IMG CLASS="smiley" ALT="smiley" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif"><br>

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Posted by satchmo on Mon Dec 12th at 9:20pm 2005

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Yeah I can't say I'm a huge fan of the new Bugatti visually

It looks like a new BatMobile.




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