Fact 1: The waste energy from running the 16.4 litre engine at full whack could heat 10 family homes in the winter.
Fact 2: It takes 15 hours to build one radiator for the Veyron – each car has a total of 10.
Fact 3: The brakes can withstand heat of up to 1800°C
Fact 4: When the air brake is at an angle of 55 degrees it generates 70% of the braking force of an average car.
Fact 5: The Bugatti Veyron is split into three parts and only held together with 14 bolts.
Fact 6: The Veyron uses special Michelin PAX tires found on no other car. The rear wheels are 14.5 inches wide, twice as wide as a normal car. If you require replacements the car needs to be shipped to France, a process that costs $70,000.
Fact 7: It takes 8 days to weld a Bugatti Veyron fuel tank.
Fact 8: In a Veyron it is quicker to decelerate from 60mph to 0 than it is to accelerate there. (It only takes 2.8 seconds to get to 60)
Fact 9: Once being road tested for 500 kilometres, each car is put in a light tunnel and inspected and polished for two days solid.
Fact 10: A Bugatti Veyron uses fuel pumps that can pump fuel eight times faster than a normal car.
BONUS:At 250 mph, the Veyron’s tires will last fifteen minutes. Its 26.4-gallon fuel tank goes dry in twelve. At the Veyron’s 253-mph top speed, the Veyron consumes 47,000 litres of air per minute — as much air as one man breathes in four days.
Its performance is impressive, but I actually find it a butt-ugly car. To me it looks like a kid went crazy modeling a VW bug in clay. Give me something sleek and not a bubble anyday.
Fact 11: The Veyron could be the ugliest vehicle ever made. I don't care how fast it accelerates or how well it handles. I'd be embarrassed to drive around in it.
id I had the money to afford it in the long run id buy one.. ive always liked it,,, shows what man is really capable of building... I see this and the McLaren as 2 different attestments to mans ability the Bugatti is speed by technology where the McLaren is speed by engineering
It's the automotive Concorde. It's an engineering exercise to prove what can be done as much as anything else. I like the looks, but that's primarily driven by the functionality rather than aesthetics.
Things like the double-clutch transmission are just amazing from an engineering standpoint.
Since fuel efficiency is not a consideration, and top speed is, i am surprised they have not gone with a turbine and ditched pistons. Smaller, lighter, more efficient at speed, far more power..
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It's a car for the opulently rich. Some great features wrapped up in an overpriced shell that missed the mark on styling. There are numerous other vehicles with all the same features for more realistic prices that look better. What's the point of having a car that can reach 253 mph? If you buy it, you will never get it up to that speed (at least not in North America). The whole issue with the tires is just pointless. Even a new set of Pirelli P-Zero tires for a Lamborghini Aventador only run about $2,000.
I'm not a fan of the way it looks, but I understand that how it looks is more design function over design form. If I could afford to own it long term, I wouldn't hesitate to own one. If we don't push the envelope of what's capable now, how will we get to where that's the norm in the next generation or 2?
Think about it. If there hadn't been someone pushing the envelope 50 years ago where would we be now? This is one of those situations where "Just because we can doesn't mean we should" doesn't hold any water for me. I fully believe this is one area where we aren't pushing the envelope enough.
It's a car for the opulently rich. Some great features wrapped up in an overpriced shell that missed the mark on styling. There are numerous other vehicles with all the same features for more realistic prices that look better. What's the point of having a car that can reach 253 mph? If you buy it, you will never get it up to that speed (at least not in North America). The whole issue with the tires is just pointless. Even a new set of Pirelli P-Zero tires for a Lamborghini Aventador only run about $2,000.
If you have that kind of money, most likely you have a place you can drive it.
Styling is relative, and i do think in this case functionally wins out over something so abstract. How many other production cars can hit 253 while listening to the symphony and a martini in the console?
I'm not a fan of the way it looks, but I understand that how it looks is more design function over design form.
Right, every spot on this car was engineered, and is the way it is for a technical reason. if someone wants to trade function for pretty, there are plenty of other choices out there.
Fact 11: The Veyron could be the ugliest vehicle ever made. I don't care how fast it accelerates or how well it handles. I'd be embarrassed to drive around in it.
Personally, I'd drive this before the Nissan Juke any day.
Originally posted by User00013170: If you have that kind of money, most likely you have a place you can drive it.
Yep. If you can afford a Veyron, you can also afford to rent a track, hire a driving coach, have the car transported, etc. But at that level, you can also afford a pretty good race car. Personally, I'd take the race car.
Originally posted by Neils88: There are numerous other vehicles with all the same features for more realistic prices that look better.
Can you name some? Not just cars that can match some of what the Veyron does, but as you said "ALL" the same features. Something that can go as fast off the line, as well as top speed, handle as well, stop as fast, and have a comparable level of creature comforts all in one package. I'm not saying it doesn't exist, but I think you'll find it's a very short list.
It's the automotive Concorde. It's an engineering exercise to prove what can be done as much as anything else.
Exactly.
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It's a car for the opulently rich.
For whom wretched excess is exactly the point. Or maybe there is a secret competition for who can crash the most advanced, most expensive car available. There have been several crashes of these. http://jalopnik.com/5655286...auses-550k-in-damage
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Styling is relative,
All of us have relatives that ugly, I'm sure.
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How many other production cars can hit 253 while listening to the symphony and a martini in the console?
Can you name some? Not just cars that can match some of what the Veyron does, but as you said "ALL" the same features. Something that can go as fast off the line, as well as top speed, handle as well, stop as fast, and have a comparable level of creature comforts all in one package. I'm not saying it doesn't exist, but I think you'll find it's a very short list.
McLaren P1 is close to matching most of what the Veyron can do and looks so much better.
Don't forget about the American Made SSC Ultimate Aero. The car that took the title of fastest production car away from the Veryon, and the Veryon SS on a technicality.
It's a car for the opulently rich. Some great features wrapped up in an overpriced shell that missed the mark on styling. There are numerous other vehicles with all the same features for more realistic prices that look better. What's the point of having a car that can reach 253 mph? If you buy it, you will never get it up to that speed (at least not in North America). The whole issue with the tires is just pointless. Even a new set of Pirelli P-Zero tires for a Lamborghini Aventador only run about $2,000.
Well actually there is, the salt flats. But then who would buy it just to drive it that fast once, then have to buy a new set of tires, besides someone with more money than god and a brain that would fit in a mustard seed.
That has got to be the ugliest thing I have ever seen.
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Don't forget about the American Made SSC Ultimate Aero. The car that took the title of fastest production car away from the Veryon, and the Veryon SS on a technicality.
But that's impossible the engine is made by union lackeys who are lazy drunks. How could a bunch of GM UAW drunks make anything that good when we all know that union workers are nothing but lazy drunks. That's sarcasm in case you didn't get it.
Steve
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But that's impossible the engine is made by union lackeys who are lazy drunks. How could a bunch of GM UAW drunks make anything that good when we all know that union workers are nothing but lazy drunks. That's sarcasm in case you didn't get it.
Steve
Because its probably not made in the Union shops but in the specialty group where they use engineers to actually build the car and not union lackeys.
That has got to be the ugliest thing I have ever seen.
Don't get out much, do you, Steve? Have you seen a picture of Lady Gaga without makeup?
Come to think of it, with makeup ain't much improvement.
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Originally posted by 84fiero123:
But that's impossible the engine is made by union lackeys who are lazy drunks. How could a bunch of GM UAW drunks make anything that good when we all know that union workers are nothing but lazy drunks. That's sarcasm in case you didn't get it.
But that's impossible the engine is made by union lackeys who are lazy drunks. How could a bunch of GM UAW drunks make anything that good when we all know that union workers are nothing but lazy drunks. That's sarcasm in case you didn't get it.
