I was never ever bowled over by the pictures of the Veyron. I saw one the other day and thought it was a Continental GT or a Flying Spur. I was totally unimpressed. It also does 4 MPG. FOUR!
It's probably the biggest waste of money I've ever seen, for the Volkswagon (if Jeremy's crazy claim is correct) and the buyer.
But as for the lap, I really think it will break the Track record. You have to remember it's phenomenal accelleration, the cornering really doesn't matter too much. It shits on the acceleration of any other car in speeds 60 MPH upwards. This really is going to be interesting. SO FUCKING SOMEONE LEND THE STIG YOUR VEYRON
lol this isnt really the type of car you buy with MPG in mind, infact MPG would never enter the equation.
this is not a waste of money. im glad they did it, im glad some one had the fucking gonads to stand up and say "were gonna make a car with 1000bhp and it will do 400km/h" and im even more glad that the engineers involved had even bigger gonads and followed up with this. this isnt so much a car, its more of a statement..... a look at what we can achieve, it'll be a historic piece of engineering.
about the claims on cost, it is said each car costs VW 5 million euros. but i dont believe its 5 million euros to make, i think this cost is the whole projects budget divided by the number of cars they will make. still ?850,000 is alot for a car, but if you have the money then props to you.
infact the car really isnt a waste of money for the buyer at all...... i doubt this thing will depreciate much, and in a few years time it may even be worth more, its that much of a spectacle.
JC did decribe it as a big elise, but im not sure. thats alot of weight to hoof around. still the rear air brake can produce as much deceleration as the brakes on a VW lupo, thats justs the air brake! its got 4 huge carbon-ceramic dinner plates for its main stopping trick. (250 - 0mph in 10 seconds or something daft)
as long as its dry it should be the fastest, its 0-60 time is pretty much the fastest of all the cars before it, and its in-gear acceleration has to be seen to be believed... its hitting 300k 4 seconds after my car supposedly reached 100km/h
however if i had a veyron... no way would i lend the stig it. no way
Exactly. This is why i admire the Veyron and why i just can't care about these wannabes that set out to beat one single acheivement of it (Hennessy, Koenigsegg etc) for something to shout about. The Veyron isn't amazing because it's great at one thing. It's amazing because it's great at everything at the same time.
And that's why i wouldn't be dissapointed to see the Veyron go slower than a few other cars on the track, which i think it would...
the thing i like is that it is just top notch engineering, and ive not heard of one breaking down yet.
im pretty sure these 1000bhp + skylines and 1200bhp vettes are abit tempramental, theyve built a 1000hp engine... but have they got a custom drive train designed to handle 1000bhp and last 20 years built by the chaps at ricardo's? (guys who build F1 boxes...) no.
its the completeness of the car, the sense that they went balls out money no object in all aspects of the car. i like the choices they made, they could of easily took a big V8 and blatted on some big turbos and called it a day...but they didnt. they built a W16 instead.... the engineering behind it is just so much more note worthy.