Woohoo! Veyron isn't 'just' the fastest production car!!

[flyingfridge]

Found this on the Times website, Veyron is pissing off greenies!! I love this thing even more now!!

Bugatti makes greens choke
Dipesh Gadher
IT is the ultimate gas guzzler. Bugatti has defied the trend for green vehicles by creating the world?s fastest, most expensive ? and most polluting ? sports car.

Boasting a top speed of 253mph and an eye-watering price tag of ?700,000, the Veyron finally went into production last week with delivery of the first car expected next month.

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The luxury marque, owned by Volkswagen, has already taken around 40 orders, with David Beckham, the England footballer, and Ralph Lauren, the American fashion designer, believed to have expressed an interest in the supercar.

But as petrol prices broke the ?1 per litre barrier in some parts of the country, environmental campaigners attacked Bugatti for producing a vehicle that boasts an average fuel economy of 11.7mpg and spews out 574g/km of carbon dioxide (C02).

?With the threat of climate change growing, who needs a gas guzzler that can travel at more than three times the speed limit?? said Tony Bosworth of Friends of the Earth. ?Car manufacturers should be focusing on producing greener cars.?

Until now, the Ferrari Enzo (top speed: 217mph) is thought to have been the most polluting car on Britain?s roads. It has a fuel consumption of 12.3mpg and produces 545g/km of C02, according to government statistics.

Even the Hummer, the American sport-utility vehicle loved by Beckham and loathed by environmentalists, appears to have marginally greener credentials than the Veyron.

Bugatti?s most ambitious car was due to go into production two years ago, but was delayed as engineers struggled to tame its immense power.

Customers will be offered a day of training to get used to the beast.

Some buyers have paid the full price in advance of delivery, while others have raided the bank to lay down a ?200,000 deposit.

The company was originally founded in 1909 by Ettore Bugatti, an Italian artist and designer, whose motto was: ?Nothing is too beautiful, nothing is too expensive.?

 

[fbc]

for annoying the greenies

for being ordered by David Beckham

 

[flyingfridge]

^^ yes, it's now made it's way to the 'Seriously Uncool' end of the cool wall...

 

[fbc]

Now? It was always there in my book

 

[p0w3r]

wosre then a Hummer? that says A LOT :lol:

 

[Z Draci]

I bet the pets and animals owned by those environmentalists produce more air pollution than the couple dozen Bugatti Veyrons that will be driven only a few days out of the year.

Those people obviously don't have their heads screwed in straight.

 

[Buba]

Now? It was always there in my book

For me as well. We gotta have another ?ber serious uncool hellhole for that.

Buba

 

[bihus]

They'll only build 300!!!! WTF do they want?
A trackday releases more CO2 than a single Veyron will ever release...

 

[Buba]

^^ Yeah, you're right, the average a Veyron will do a year is going to be less than 5000km/3000 miles a year... A Golf will do 3 times that much...

Buba

 

[BlaRo]

Now? It was always there in my book

For me as well. We gotta have another ?ber serious uncool hellhole for that.

Buba

How about its very own section? "The Bugatti Veyron Section". :lol:

 

[flyingfridge]

Now? It was always there in my book

For me as well. We gotta have another ?ber serious uncool hellhole for that.

Buba

Yes, but u r a Koenigsegg fanboi. I'm a Koenigsegg fan too, but I still love the Veyron for what it is. A flamboyant, beautiful, expensive, outrageous and ultimately uber fast superhypercar.

 

[SL65]

ROFL at the comments made by that guy from Friends of the Earth haha!! Friends of the Earth? lol go hug trees and save the whales, just leave our gaz guzzlers along!
I heard rumours that they might do a diesel version of the Veyron...in ur dreams mate heheh!

 

[flyingfridge]

ROFL at the comments made by that guy from Friends of the Earth haha!! Friends of the Earth? lol go hug trees and save the whales, just leave our gaz guzzlers along!
I heard rumours that they might do a diesel version of the Veyron...in ur dreams mate heheh!

Heheh, the Veyron 3-Cylinder diesel, where you piss on the car and it comes out smelling lemony fresh...

 

[BlaRo]

A diesel supercar...

"Hey, it may sound like a truck, but it's still the fastest production car evAr! Want to go out sometime? Where you goin?!"

:lol:

 

[jayjaya29]

Oh well, it won't be driven too much, now for them Hummers.....

 

[Labcoatguy]

I bet the pets and animals owned by those environmentalists produce more air pollution than the couple dozen Bugatti Veyrons that will be driven only a few days out of the year.

Those people obviously don't have their heads screwed in straight.

Seriously.... to say nothing of the dangerous emissions from their beardy BO and enviro-stickered 20-year-old pickup truck rustbuckets. They'd be better off protesting the Toyota Corolla. Sooooo many of those on the roads, so much emissions!!

 

[static]

for annoying the greenies

This is still reasonable to me but what's the point to praise a car just because it pollutes like hell? Fast cars are bound to pollute and that's a downside not something you *want* to prefer. Well, if you are older than 12 that is.

 

[wooflepoof]

Its actually helping the environment when u think about it. Cuz once it melts all the trees and ice caps and kills all the wildlife, then there wont be a need for environmentalists! How could THAT be bad?

 

[flyingfridge]

^^ wooflepoof, I like your way of thinking. Pure Genious. Now, everybody, lets kill the environmentalists!! All buy a Veyron!!

 

[fbc]

for annoying the greenies

This is still reasonable to me but what's the point to praise a car just because it pollutes like hell? Fast cars are bound to pollute and that's a downside not something you *want* to prefer. Well, if you are older than 12 that is.

I'm not praising it because it pollutes like hell, I'm praising it because it's annoyed the greenies. You're right about pollution being a bad thing for us all - but really how much is the fleet of Veyrons ever likely to contribute given the small distances they'll travel? So the greenies have gone and gotten all excited about nothing when I'm sure there's much bigger enviro issues they should be attacking - but oh no, they attack cars because they're an easy target....

FYI - I'm definitely older than 12.