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Man Drives $2 Million Bugatti Into Lake

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Kadarin said:
It doesn't matter how good the car is, some people simply do not know how to drive. WTF was up with not shutting the engine off, too?

1. Suddenly swerves to avoid wildlife, thus potentially losing control of the car (just hit the damned thing).
2. Was apparently talking on a cell w/o handsfree at the same time.
3. Is apparently unable to stop the car before driving into a lagoon.
4. Doesn't shut off the engine.

This guy is apparently too stupid to drive a supercar.
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Leaving an engine running while submerged is a good idea. It keeps the water from flowing backwards up exhaust, backflow is a bad, bad thing.I've spent a lot of time with my exhaust going 'glugglugglug', it's very disconcerting, but it works. 😀
 
LTC8K6 said:
Until it sucks enough water on top of a piston...
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It won't suck water in unless the air intake is under water and on a Veyron they are up high. Leaving the car running is the only smart thing he did. If the air intake is above water always let it run. The minute it stops and the air in the engine starts to cool a vacuum is created and the water is sucked right up the exhaust and will fill the engine.
 
Ronstang said:
It won't suck water in unless the air intake is under water and on a Veyron they are up high. Leaving the car running is the only smart thing he did. If the air intake is above water always let it run. The minute it stops and the air in the engine starts to cool a vacuum is created and the water is sucked right up the exhaust and will fill the engine.
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You'd have to leave it running until you got the exhaust above the water then. Doesn't sound like he did that. Sounds like it quit running while in the pond, so he might as well have shut it off in the first place.

If he left it idling, what would have made it quit running? Too much back pressure?

We ran vehicles in very deep water in the Army with snorkel kits and exhaust extensions.
 
LTC8K6 said:
You'd have to leave it running until you got the exhaust above the water then. Doesn't sound like he did that. Sounds like it quit running while in the pond, so he might as well have shut it off in the first place.

If he left it idling, what would have made it quit running? Too much back pressure?

We ran vehicles in very deep water in the Army with snorkel kits and exhaust extensions.
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An engine will overpower water pressure at reasonable depths. I cannot think of an engine dying after 15 minutes under water unless something got shorted. Having hydrolocked an engine before, I am shocked it didn't when he first hit the water.
 
The usual killer of an engine running when the car is in the water is the electronics and ignition getting wet and failing. Other than that it could likely idle until it ran out of gas. A diesel engine will run completely submerged with intake air because it has no ignition system. I bet those military vehicles that were swimmers were likely diesel engines or they had a modified electrical system.
 
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Born2bwire said:
Why the hell do you bother with a car? A go-cart could do that.
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I was driving up the highway and I saw this dude on some sort of scooter (a vespa?) riding on the highway at 70mph. The thing is from the sound of it the scooter was dieing trying to maintain that speed. I thought "sure you can I guess but why, why would you?"

If you're a car fan or an engineering fan you gotta appreciate the Veyron. Such a crazy piece of engineering.
 
iamwiz82 said:
An engine will overpower water pressure at reasonable depths. I cannot think of an engine dying after 15 minutes under water unless something got shorted. Having hydrolocked an engine before, I am shocked it didn't when he first hit the water.
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I think the air intakes on the Veyron are those scoops on the top of the vehicle thus no water could actually get into the intake tract at that depth of water. On some performance cars the air intakes are down low on the front bumper and those cars can hydrolock pretty easy. I had a neighbor who did it on a Mazda because the intake inlet was low and he drove fast through some minor flooding that would have been fine if it had been carbureted.
 
thecrecarc said:
For all those saying he should have shut off the engine, I would think he was too busy, ya know, saving his own life.
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In reality he probably had enough time to decide what to do with the engine had he noticed his pants weren't wet because water from the lake had made it in already....
 
Here is a list of the ten most expensive cars.
http://www.thesupercars.org/top-cars/most-expensive-cars-in-the-world-top-10-list-2007-2008/

I honestly did not know there were cars available that cost more than $150k so this article surprised me greatly. The lowest priced car on the list is $440k while the highest priced "very buggy" car costs $1.7 million. 😛

I have no conceptual understanding how these prices can be substantiated. For me, there is no difference between a Bentley, an Aston Martin, the 10th highest priced car on the list, and the #1 highest priced car on that list.

There are $2 million cars on the road? I had no idea.
 
It's a saltwater lagoon, too...

All that car to enjoy driving, and he's talking on the cell phone instead...
 
Wow can you say profit! (not for the accident but for Bugatti for every sale). I can understand luxury cars costing 100,200 maybe even 300 thousand dollars. But much above that and you really aren't paying for anything any more. I've heard of million dollar limited edition race cars before but 2 million!??!!
 
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