Your dream car - Page 9

On March 01 2007 07:22 Gandalf wrote:


Oh nozzzz the bugatti isnt the best car in the world and baal disagrees with me and my bubble has been busted oh nozzzz my life is ruined!

So basically, if you are correct, there are two cars faster than the bugatti, and that makes the bugatti a "TOTAL PIECE OF SHIT"? Thats surprising, because while every single person on the planet might not agree it is the best consumer car, no one has ever described it in those words. I've always read praises about it. If you read the wikipedia article (or if you download the show), you'll realize that Jeremy Clarkson was totally biased against the bugatti and hated it, but once he tested it out, he fell in love with it, and said it was the greatest car ever made. For example, quoted from wiki:

"After the car had reached production, Murray went on to write an article for another UK auto magazine, Top Gear, retracting a lot of his past criticism of the car.

"One really good thing, and I simply never expected this, is that it does change direction. It hardly feels its weight. Driving it on a circuit I expected a sack of cement, but you can really throw it at tight chicanes."

He also declared in the article that: "The braking is phenomenal," "The primary ride and body control are good too" and "It's a huge achievement."

The trend of backtracking on negative comments about the Veyron continued when prominent UK car show host Jeremy Clarkson declared on Top Gear that it was "The best car ever made" after initially saying it was ridiculous and would never exist.[1] He would later extend this by saying he would spend the night with British reality TV star Jade Goody to get his hands on one.

The Veyron was then proclaimed the Top Gear Magazine Car of the Year along with the Toyota Aygo and its Peugeot and Citroën clones.

The Veyron was also declared the Grand Award winner for the Autotech category of 2006 by Popular Science magazine."

Obviously, the car has a certain degree of mechanical and engineering brilliance.

Your argument about the bugatti being a financial flop is completely stupid because you obviously didnt read my post, just saw "bugatti" and started replying. Let me quote: "After the release of the car, it has been reported that while each Veyron is being sold for £840,000, the production costs of the car are approximately £5 million per vehicle. This is not the price to produce one vehicle, but rather the cost of the entire Veyron project divided by the number of vehicles produced at that time. As Bugatti, and therefore Volkswagen, are making such a loss, it has been likened by automotive journalist Jeremy Clarkson to Concorde, in that both were test-beds for advancements in technology and developed as exercises in engineering rather than profit."

The bugatti is a very refined car. It has prestige. Were I given the choice to receive any car in the world for free, I'd choose the bugattie. I doubt anyone would call me a dumbass for doing so.

As of now, the bugatti is the fastest road car, and its record may or may not be broken at the world speed record in may 2007. Keep in mind that its highest speed is actually electronically limited. It also has the fastest tested 0-60mph (2.45 seconds), vs the aeros claimed 2.8 seconds and the koeniseggs 3.2 seconds. Also, I'm not sure if the aero TT (the newest model) is actually in production yet. The bugatti also has the best braking of the three, and wouldnt you say that would count in a race around a track?

That Andy Frost guy customized his car to 2200bhp, 0-60 in 1 second, for just 100,000 pounds. Compare that to the bugattis cost of 5,000,000 pounds per car. Its obvious the bugatti has a lot more to it than sheer speed, bhp, and a W16. Although I'm no car expert, so I cant comment on specifics, but obviously you arent either, since your opinion is the complete opposite of every well known expert I know of.

Finally, this isnt a thread about the best car or whatever. You dont see me shitting on other peoples choices just because the bugatti is "faster" than them. I could love a civic if I wanted to.

I've already blown a new bubble.