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Bugatti Veyron
A community portal about Bugatti Veyron with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: The Bugatti Veyron 16.4 is currently the most powerful, most expensive, and fastest street-legal production car in the world, with a... [more]
A community portal about Bugatti Veyron with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: The Bugatti Veyron 16.4 is currently the most powerful, most expensive, and fastest street-legal production car in the world, with a proven top speed of over 400 km/h . It reached full production in September 2005. The car is built by Volkswagen AG subsidiary Bugatti Automobiles SAS and is sold under the legendary Bugatti marque. It is named after racing driver Pierre Veyron, who won the 24 hours of Le Mans in 1939 while racing for the original Bugatti firm.
This post contains two videos. The first one is footage of one of the world’s fastest cars in production, the Bugatti Veyron, crashing into a lake. The second video is the aftermath.
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So, just what does 1,001 hp and 922 lb-ft of torque feel like at takeoff? Absolutely nothing can prepare the mind, body and soul for such an otherworldly experience, and unless your name happens to be Alan Shepherd, Joe Engle, Joe Walker, Neil ...
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- EXCLUSIVE: First Post-Lake Crash Bugatti Veyron Photo (jalopnik.com)
There's been lots of speculation over the Bugatti Veyron lake crash, especially after the crash video and post-crash photos surfaced. Motor Trend's Mike Floyd calls it "a Zapruder film for car guys." He's right. Some reader theories below. The initial reports from the scene raised some eyebrows when the driver reportedly said the crash was the fault of a "low-flying pelican." The video seems to indicate otherwise. Or does it? JCwhitless thinks...
From jalopnik.com
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- Bugatti Veyron Lake Crash: Jalopnik Reader Theories (jalopnik.com)
- Something’s Fishy With That Waterlogged Veyron (blog.wired.com)
Obviously loaded with more cash than brain cells, this good Texan managed to drive his Bugatti Veyron straight into a saltwater lagoon.
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- VIdeo: Man Drives Bugatti Veyron Into Lake (xo.typepad.com)
- Idiot Crashes Bugatti Veyron Into Lake (feedproxy.google.com)
- VIDEO: Bugatti Veyron crashing into the water (mikemcguff.blogspot.com)
If you have one of the most expensive cars in the world, do you spend every moment driving it by driving carefully, and paying attention or do you take mobile phone calls and get distracted by non-existent pelicans? Guess which of these options the driver of this Bugatti Veyron was doing when he found out that it's not an amphibious vehicle?More here, here and here. Video here and superb (NSFW audio) footage of the actual crash here (+bonus...
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From pri.me.uk
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In what could be described as one of the most well documented exotic car incidents on the net, following the actual crash footage of the Bugatti Veyron and video of the vehicle as it was being pulled out of the saltwater pond in Texas, our friends from 'Jalopnik' have now secured photos of the 1,001 horsepower supercar in all its soggy glory. Click through to see how a Veyron looks like after taking an accidental dip into a lake. Via: Jalopnik
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From blogger.com
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There aren’t too many things super-exotic sports cars, like the $1+ million Bugatti Veyron, hate more than being sentenced to a life of grocery-getting and night-on-the-towning. Salt water is high on that short-list. Being driven by a cellphone-distracted driver also makes that list. Combine those two super car pet-peeves, and you’ve got the makings of [...]
From intomobile.com
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- Man drives $1m Bugatti into salt marsh, blames pelican crossing (belfasttelegraph.co.uk)
Remember the amazing $1.6 million Bugatti Veyron lake crash blamed on a low-flying pelican? Well it turns out someone caught it on video as they drove past.
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From digg.com
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. . . and decides that it is just unnecessarily superb. Excerpts: The Bugatti shifts occupants around like a Star Trek transporter: from a standstill to 60 miles per hour in 2.7 seconds, to 125 m.p.h. in just over 7...
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From newmarksdoor.typepad.com
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A Bugatti Veyron is a fancy Italian sportscar that costs at least $1.25
million and sometimes more, so when you drive one into the lake like an
errant golf shot, it actually makes news and even stirs some celebrity...
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