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| Re: Bugatti Veyron 16.4: To Drive the Impossible Dream -
01-29-2006, 01:09 AM
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Originally Posted by 450SEL 6.9 I can't seem this 4,000 lb.tub of a car winning any races. | LOL - that is insulting  Quote: |
Originally Posted by warot It's just a confused car designed by confused engineers. I know people will send the dogs at me, but I honestly think that if you are going to try to prove something, then you gotta do it the right way. There's no need for all that luxury stuff in the car. You either make it a real sports car (McLaren F1) or you make it into a GT (Bently GT). If you try to mix both, all you'll get are Beckhams and Paris Hiltons on your waiting list. |  The absolute preposterous audacity of the Veyron, is probably the only characteristic this vehicle has in common with the great cars built at Molsheim in the 1920's and 30's. Ettore Bugatti was a visionary more than an industrial entrepreneur. He was a highly-cultured perfectionist with extraordinarily high standards - he once refused to sell a car to King Zog of Albania, claiming that "the man's table manners are beyond belief!". His cars were absurdly impractical, proudly ostentatious, and obscenely expensive. Bugattis were always just about the most expensive cars you could buy - the most famous examples being the Bugatti Royale limousines that nearly bankrupted the company. They were built for royalty, unfortunately no royal bought one. Only six were built, each with a different body style. Look at the the size of those wheels!  Here is a website (in French) http://perso.wanadoo.fr/le-tchouk/galerie_T41.htm
Last edited by SDNR; 01-29-2006 at 01:34 AM.
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