No Veyron's for America?

Deanodriver said:
Wait, it's because of the seatbelts, isn't it?

Why not just sell the car in states which require a seatbelt, and not in ones that don't?
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Because our wonderfully out of touch congress is making a Federal law requiring these "smart" airbags so jackasses who don't use seat belts won't get a face full of glass. Lol, I say if someone doesn't want to wear their seat belt, let them. Then the problem will eventually work itself out.
 
tigger said:
I say if someone doesn't want to wear their seat belt, let them. Then the problem will eventually work itself out.
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I'm with you on that, and lets take it up a notch. Lets remove all warning labels from everything, if your to stupid to realize you shouldn't stick your hand on a hot exhaust, or in a spinning fan, you deserve to lose your hand.
 
superchevy said:
i guess you don't realize that the u.s., the state of california particularly, is the world's largest market for luxury vehicles and "supercars". the same goes for most other luxury items and the enterainment segments.

so, yeah. bugatti is done for (again) if they can't sell cars in the united states.
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I do realize and you're correct it's a massively bigger market than anywhere else. But it doesn't matter. There's that much hype around the Veyron and that few that they'll sell them all anyway.

As i say when they do their less exclusive models around the price of a Carrera GT or so they'll need the American market.
 
thedguy said:
I'm with you on that, and lets take it up a notch. Lets remove all warning labels from everything, if your to stupid to realize you shouldn't stick your hand on a hot exhaust, or in a spinning fan, you deserve to lose your hand.
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Rofl, I couldn't agree more. Like the "HOT" labels on coffee cups all because some lady sued McDonald's for her coffee being to hot. I think it's a symptom of a larger problem, but I'll quit before I get completely off topic.

GraemeH, I think part of the issue is that Bugatti is saying if they can't sell the Veyron to the American market now, they won't be around to build "lower-end" supercars. Whether or not that's true idk, but they're losing money now as it is.
 
It's just so fashionable right now to hate America, Americans, and particularly California, isn't it?
Let's just blame them for everything that's wrong in the world. need to hate somebody, might as well be them.
Stupid topic for so many reasons, and just plain sad for so many others.
 
man, y'all think too narrowly. without mandated seatbelt legislation, insurance prices would skyrocket. i don't like the government forcing decisions on us, but in this case, they're really looking out for us. it's just a shitty product of constitutional republicianism.
 
jrl1018 said:
lol, are you sure about that?

in the veyron race ep of TG Clarkson said that it cost Bugatti 5Million Pounds to make one veyron. and they are a HUGE company. lol itd probably cost you upwards of $8 mil
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I think if you take the total cost of developing the Veyron spread over the number of cars they're going to produce, you get that 5 million pound number. I think the actual cost of building the car (raw materials, labor, etc.) is much much less. For Bugatti, they have to factor in all the research, development, and testing that went into it. For wooflepoof, all he has to do is sneak into Bugatti, steal the engineering plans, find the right suppliers, and assemble the car. I'm sure he could do it for $1.4 mil!
 
tigger said:
Rofl, I couldn't agree more. Like the "HOT" labels on coffee cups all because some lady sued McDonald's for her coffee being to hot. I think it's a symptom of a larger problem, but I'll quit before I get completely off topic.
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It's completely off topic, but the facts of that McDonald's case are a lot more interesting than what you read in the papers. The woman suffered 3rd degree burns and was hospitalized for 8 days. She also had to undergo skin graft surgery and 2 years of follow-up treatment. She wanted to settle with McDonald's for $20,000 to help pay for her medical expenses, but McDonald's, being the giant congolomerate that they are, offered $800. When the whole million dollar lawsuit came out, McDonald's painted her as some money-grubbing old woman who should have known that their coffee is served at 180 degress, even though McDonald's knew full well that coffee at that temperature will cause burns. Everyone else keeps coffee at 140 to 150 degrees.

But I agree that warning labels exist mostly to protect the companies from frivolous lawsuits, of which there are many. When I bought my BMW, I noticed that the windshield washer fluid was clear. When it came time to fill it up again, I couldn't find any clear stuff in the States and had to put in the blue stuff. The stuff in the States is blue so that people don't confuse it with water and drink it. Apparently, the label that says WINDSHIELD WASHER FLUID isn't enough of a deterrent.
 
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Salar said:
ROLMAO, good one.

I'm sure buyers don't give a jack sh!t about the extra $100K.
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I agree, it is the same thing I imagine when I see wrecked supercars. If they can afford one, then chances are they can afford another. There is this one story about this guy that wrecked his expensive supercar, and before calling authorities he called the company to order another one.
 
BimmerFan said:
It's completely off topic, but the facts of that McDonald's case are a lot more interesting than what you read in the papers.
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Thanks for that. It's always nice to know the whole story, I guess i'd only heard the big corporations side of that (imagine that lol).

I think seatbelt legislation is a great idea. However I think airbags should be optional. And I definitely think Congress should worry about enforcing the laws on the books before they make another law to compensate for the one people aren't following. (Did that make any sense lol? They need to enforce seatbelt laws more effectively before they say cars should have more safety features.)

As for Californians, I don't hate them. I hate politicians lol. The state as a whole has done a lot to reduce their collective pollution and waste. I think some of their policies are misguided (such as those regarding the modifying of cars), but the nation should follow suit.

As for the 10% Veyron price increase, just because you're rich doesn't mean you don't know the value of a dollar, or can just blow unlimited amounts of cash. 100k is still 100k, no matter how money much you have. I'm sure they'll still find buyers, but don't think just because you can afford a million dollar car you can get a 1.1 million dollar one. It's not the same thing as setting out to buy a 10k car and getting one that costs 11k.
 
the woman is still a fucking idiot for burning herself with hot coffee. if an employee had spilt the coffee on her, then i'd agree with her lawsuit. it's the same thing with fatties suing airlines because they get charged double fare, because their lard asses take up two seats. then, there's a guy suing a vegas casino because he lost over $1 million gambling while drunk. people need to learn how to be responsible again.
 
Sounds like a lot of crying about nothing, Bugatti already get a lot of parts from VW, who already have those airbags in all their cars, they don't need to do "120 crash tests" to install these bags.
 
In 1996, I spent a month in Germany. One day, we went to a public pool. As we walked around, we noticed not a single warning sign covering the dangers or running on the slick cement. We also noticed bare metal stairs leading up to the slide, and only a handle on one side. I was curious, so I asked the lifeguard about the lack of "Slippery When Wet" signs, and asked why they were not affraid of getting sued.

His response: "It's wet...wet things are slippery...it's common sense."

*sigh*

Since when did common sense become so uncommon?
 
so what you're saying is that i can become a rich man if i visited a german pool and had myself an "accident"?:think:
 
superchevy said:
so what you're saying is that i can become a rich man if i visited a german pool and had myself an "accident"?:think:
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No. They would throw out your case, and fine you for wasting the court's time. :lol:
 
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