The car still has me speechless, i have had the luck of seeing one up close (and wasting half my day at work drooling over it), My boss recently became one of the first people in So Cal to take delivery of one... and god damn is it beautiful!

The insane thing is he drove it into our workshop, with the "skilled" forklift driving that goes on in our shop i wont even drive my car in it .... but nevertheless, here it is...




The attention to detail is unreal, sorry i dont have more pictures of it right now, but they pay attention to everything, even the interior crap you can see when the hydraulic rear wing is lifted looks like it has had so much thought and time gone into it.

And simple things, like the storage console inbetween the seats has small pinpoint LED's lighting up your stuff (for most veyron owners that "stuff" probably totals more than the cost of our cars...)

And the engine sound.... oh god....

 

for over $1,000,000 they better pay attention to every detail. I'm not a fan of the paint job.

It's pretty cool though that you saw one up close.

 

stupid piston motors!

 

I would love to see a red one

 

I'm pretty sure most of us have known about this car for quite some time but the amazing thing is actually watching this thing REACH it's performance limitations; 253 mph!

 

and then, we have the Melling Hellcat. 1,175Hp.

i still like the Veyron fil much better though

 

The Hellcat is unproven, it will be interesting to see if it can also break the 400kph barrier ...

 

http://www.cartype.com/page.cfm?id=37

What about the Bugatti EB16-4 1250HP version that supposedly has a 274 mph top speed??

 

nice!

 

The top speed mode is really a cheater mode. If you turn the steering wheel 90 degrees from straight, the car reverts back.
The top speed mode in handling is ~235mph. (That is why it says for speeds above 375kph)

So if VW decides to 'uncork' and extra 200hp from the turbos, then maybe 253mph will be available in the normal mode.
Maybe all it will be will is a software overboost mode, only availabe in 7th gear. Look at the engine rpm, it is over peak power ~6200 compensating for parallax.

http://www.bugatti-configurator.com/.../Veyron_en.pdf

 

Why the hell would you want to turn the steering wheel a whole 90º while going 250 mph?

 

thats insane!!!! 1232 hp!!!!

 

No, you stop the car somewhere, use the top speed mode key. Then you find you own personal straightaway. If you turn the wheel anymore than 90 degrees once you get above 35mph, your out. If you hit the brakes, your out of top speed mode and into handling mode.

It is if the top speed mode was designed expressly for that test track.

 

It's incredible what can be build, produced, and sold when money isn't an object.

BUT, am I the only one that really doesn't care for the body shape? Giving it's a pure car vs. air design with looks taking the back seat, and it is the fastest prod. car on the planet, but I enjoy the looks of the enzo better. Its too rounded for me, too audi TT shaped. But of course if money wasn't an object i would get one.

 

i too am not a big fan of the design, but i'll still take one. haha. i prefer the design of the carrera gt over any other supercar.