I'll probably get banned for asking, but am I the only one who thinks that this car looks like it has camel toe?
Posted on 12/14/2005 4:56:15 AM PST by harpu
VW Will Start Selling Costly Bugatti in the U.S.; Zero to 62 in 2.5 Seconds
After seven years of false starts, a $1 million car billed as the world's fastest factory-produced automobile is about to arrive on American shores.
Volkswagen AG is launching early next year the Bugatti Veyron, a curvaceous two-seater with air-intake scoops and a large radiator grille that prominently displays the Bugatti badge. For the German car maker, it represents an unusual bet on the high-end market at a time of cost cutting for the company and as U.S. car makers continue to struggle with slow sales.
The Bugatti Veyron boasts a massive, rear-mounted 16-cylinder engine with 1,001 horsepower -- roughly the equivalent of a couple of Porsche 911s combined -- and a rear spoiler that helps keep the car from spinning out of control at high speeds. It needs just 2.5 seconds to accelerate from zero to 62 miles per hour, and burns rubber so quickly that its makers had to hire France's Michelin SCA to develop a special compound for its tires. Its top speed: 252.9 mph.
Yet for all the car's horsepower, VW acknowledges that many of those who buy the Veyron will seldom drive it, let alone at its top speed. Few, if any, public streets in the world allow motorists to approach anything near the car's top speed. Repairs are another challenge. Bugatti officials say their dealers will have staff trained to handle routine maintenance needs, such as oil changes. For more complicated problems, the company says it will send over technicians from Europe.
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Production began in France [BARF] in September. Volkswagen has taken orders for about 45 cars, almost a full year's production.
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Remidns me of the joke about the wife who was upset with her hunband and told him to buy something for the driveway that would do zero to two hundred in under ten seconds. The next morning she found a box in the driveway that was gifwrapped. Inside was a bathroom scale.
I'll probably get banned for asking, but am I the only one who thinks that this car looks like it has camel toe?
Few, if any, public streets in the world allow motorists to approach anything near the car's top speed.
Thats on a flat track too, imagine a steep on-ramp what it would be like.
I know beauty is in the eye, but that is one butt ugly auto at any price. Is there a law of physics that prohibits dead sexy design to coexist in the same plane with high performance?
I had a Kawasaki ZX12 that would match its zero to 60 time. But it quit at about half its top speed. Where do you go to do 252 mph? Salt flats are the only place I can think of.
I have been around Willow Springs a few times and 170mph will have the turns coming at you in a hurry. I can't imagine 252.
It looks nice to me, wish I had room for it in my garage.
Dang, what kind of woman are you hanging out with?
Jeep is bragging that their new car with the big Chrysler Hemi will go 0 to 60 in less than 5 seconds wet or dry, and thats with 4 wheel drive.
When you get a tire built with that kind of grip you are giving up a lot of tire mileage. I would bet 10,000 miles is about all you get out of tires even less if you show off a bit and another bet is they cost in the $400 dollar each range.
But what the hell if you have to ask you cant afford this car. Who wants a German car built in France anyway? If you break down they ship a Frog over for the repairs. LOL Thats funny.
Like Jags, it looks like it has a toilet seat hood ornament.
That is one ugly car.
Looks like an updated Edsel to me. Good thing it's ugly and expensive. Expensive trumps ugly in the consumer's eye. If it was ugly and cheap, only Democrats would buy it.
Today Bugatti!! Tomorrow Alfa-Romeo!!
I could only hope (as my 1982 Spider Veloce is getting long in the tooth)
Agreed, its quite an attractive car IMO.
LOL!
It looks better at the Yahoo Image search site.
If I had a million bucks to blow on a car, I would buy one, and hire a designer for $100,000 to put a decent looking front end on the thing...
Either that, or I would buy 77 Scion xBs.
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