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Jeremy Clarkson reviews the Bugatti Veyron

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Happily, stopping distances become irrelevant because you won?t see the obstacle in the first place. By the time you know it was there, you?ll have gone through the windscreen, through the Pearly Gates and be half way across God?s breakfast table.
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lol

kinda puts the speed into perspective :laugh:
 
Originally posted by: screw3d
Happily, stopping distances become irrelevant because you won?t see the obstacle in the first place. By the time you know it was there, you?ll have gone through the windscreen, through the Pearly Gates and be half way across God?s breakfast table.
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lol

kinda puts the speed into perspective :laugh:
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jeremy is so eloquent...

from his gs430 review

Like all cars, it has doors, seats, pedals, a steering wheel and lights at the front and the back. But how can this be, when it comes from a people who are baffled by a spoon? How do they make something so instantly recognisable as ?a car? when they can?t eat mashed potato without vomiting? We have knives and forks. They have chopsticks. We lie down in the bath. They stand up. We cook food. They don?t. Their culture is completely different from ours, and yet the Lexus, on the face of it, is just the same as a Jaguar, a Mercedes or a BMW.

Except it isn?t. It is much, much quieter. At 70mph it?s so silent you can hear your hair growing. Sitting in your garden after a lovely lunch is more frantic. In the cabin you are so isolated from the real world that you get some idea of what it might be like to be dead.
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Originally posted by: Goosemaster
It is much, much quieter. At 70mph it?s so silent you can hear your hair growing. Sitting in your garden after a lovely lunch is more frantic. In the cabin you are so isolated from the real world that you get some idea of what it might be like to be dead.
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The man's too damn funny.
 
Why was this top speed so hard to achieve? The Koenigsegg and McLaren F1 do around 240mph with "just" around 650 hp..Bugatti needed 350 more hp to do 10 mph more?

That said this thing is certainly in a league of its own. I can't wait to see what time it'll do on the Top Gear track. If the Enzo did 1:19, this has to go 1:15 at the slowest...
 
Originally posted by: Syringer
Why was this top speed so hard to achieve? The Koenigsegg and McLaren F1 do around 240mph with "just" around 650 hp..Bugatti needed 350 more hp to do 10 mph more?

That said this thing is certainly in a league of its own. I can't wait to see what time it'll do on the Top Gear track. If the Enzo did 1:19, this has to go 1:15 at the slowest...
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Air resistance and cooling are a bitch
 
Originally posted by: Syringer
Why was this top speed so hard to achieve? The Koenigsegg and McLaren F1 do around 240mph with "just" around 650 hp..Bugatti needed 350 more hp to do 10 mph more?

That said this thing is certainly in a league of its own. I can't wait to see what time it'll do on the Top Gear track. If the Enzo did 1:19, this has to go 1:15 at the slowest...
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Read the article:
You might point out at this juncture that the McLaren F1 could top 240mph, but at that speed it was pretty much out of control. And anyway it really isn?t in the same league as the Bugatti. In a drag race you could let the McLaren get to 120mph before setting off in the Veyron. And you?d still get to 200mph first. The Bugatti is way, way faster than anything else the roads have seen.
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It's not the top speed, rather how quickly it can reach that speed.
 
Originally posted by: Goosemaster
Originally posted by: AmdEmAll
wonder how it will be at handling.
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read the article..he wroe that it was pretty good
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it should be. they had to completely redesign it a few years ago due to the fact it couldnt stay on the track.
 
Damn, I was hoping for a video. 😛

Unfortunately for me, or hell any of us, we won't be able to afford one of those even if we won the lottery... we'd have to off a few billionaires too to move up in line a few spots. 😉
 
speed and power dont go in a linear fashion, hp requirements go up and up and up for diminishing speed returns

having said that this beast produces a earthquake inducing 922ft lb torque ...........at 2200rpm! this thing must compress your heart when you mash the pedal!
 
I still hold the McLaren F1 as the "perfect car" just because it's an all around beast. With a combination of exceptional stopping, handling, accelerating, and top-speed, the F1 to me, is a better car, albeit the Veyron is better at top speed and acceleration. I'd take the F1 at Seca over the Veyron because of the overall package.

DISCLAIMER: I am assuming that the F1 is better at corners and road holding then the Veyron based off the link. A "big Lotus" is comforting but not nearly as the praise and videos of the F1.
 
Originally posted by: James3shin
I still hold the McLaren F1 as the "perfect car" just because it's an all around beast. With a combination of exceptional stopping, handling, accelerating, and top-speed, the F1 to me, is a better car, albeit the Veyron is better at top speed and acceleration. I'd take the F1 at Seca over the Veyron because of the overall package.
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The Veyron will out corner the McLaren too (as will a garden variety C6 Corvette).
 
Originally posted by: Apex
Originally posted by: James3shin
I still hold the McLaren F1 as the "perfect car" just because it's an all around beast. With a combination of exceptional stopping, handling, accelerating, and top-speed, the F1 to me, is a better car, albeit the Veyron is better at top speed and acceleration. I'd take the F1 at Seca over the Veyron because of the overall package.
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The Veyron will out corner the McLaren too (as will a garden variety C6 Corvette).
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I don't know Apex, I know that you have experience behind the wheel, but I really can't see a car weighing in at +4000lbs out handling the F1. Care to ease my curiousity?
 
Originally posted by: James3shin
I still hold the McLaren F1 as the "perfect car" just because it's an all around beast. With a combination of exceptional stopping, handling, accelerating, and top-speed, the F1 to me, is a better car, albeit the Veyron is better at top speed and acceleration. I'd take the F1 at Seca over the Veyron because of the overall package.

DISCLAIMER: I am assuming that the F1 is better at corners and road holding then the Veyron based off the link. A "big Lotus" is comforting but not nearly as the praise and videos of the F1.
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Have you been to Laguna Seca?
 
Originally posted by: RiDE
Originally posted by: James3shin
I still hold the McLaren F1 as the "perfect car" just because it's an all around beast. With a combination of exceptional stopping, handling, accelerating, and top-speed, the F1 to me, is a better car, albeit the Veyron is better at top speed and acceleration. I'd take the F1 at Seca over the Veyron because of the overall package.

DISCLAIMER: I am assuming that the F1 is better at corners and road holding then the Veyron based off the link. A "big Lotus" is comforting but not nearly as the praise and videos of the F1.
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Have you been to Laguna Seca?
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I wish! I live on the opposite coast. The only experiences I have with that track is GT 1-4 🙁 The only tracks I've been to are 1/4 mile strips and Richmond International Raceway.
 
Originally posted by: James3shin
I still hold the McLaren F1 as the "perfect car" just because it's an all around beast. With a combination of exceptional stopping, handling, accelerating, and top-speed, the F1 to me, is a better car, albeit the Veyron is better at top speed and acceleration. I'd take the F1 at Seca over the Veyron because of the overall package.

DISCLAIMER: I am assuming that the F1 is better at corners and road holding then the Veyron based off the link. A "big Lotus" is comforting but not nearly as the praise and videos of the F1.
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On the Top Gear episode where they compared the modern vs old supercars where he compared the F40 to the McLaren as a bee against a rhinoceros..not exactly the best praise you can give to a supercar.
 
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