Jimi Hendrix
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It's the fastest GT on Earth, but is it really as comfortable and user friendly as some people say?
From the latest issue of C&D:
From the latest issue of C&D:
It has the turning radius (39.3 feet) of a Navy minesweeper. There is no 12V outlet so you'll want to own a battery-powered radar detector. And the carbon-fiber sport seats are adjusted manually. To raise and lower their height, in fact, they must be removed. By the dealer.
What's more, the Veyron proffers the ride of a Mitsubishi Evo that has been modified for professional drifting. Step-off is unpredictable and sometimes abrupt, accompanied by the not-so-charming clunk from the gearbox. And the W16's numerous fans, its 64 valves and its four furiously spinning turbos create and engine note that sounds like an idling Blackhawk helicopter's. It whooses, whirs and whines. No crisp crackling of pistons as from a Ferrari or a Lamborghini.
Combine that with tires as pliable as magohany - they must, after all, withstand 253 mph- and you summon the whole panoply of noises that luxocar engineers work so diligently to eradicate: tire thrum, boom, crash-through tread roar, impact echo and blasts from expansion strips that sound like the guns of Navarone. At a 70-mph cruise, the Veyron is 8 dB noisier than a 911 GT2. At full throttle, it is 6 dB noisier than a track-ready Dodge Viper SRT10 ACR. It's like living inside a snare drum. Those of us who sampled the radio said it wasn't very good, but it was hard to tell. We couldn't really hear it.
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