Bugatti Veyron: Now I like cars, but this is NUTS.
I thought I would take some time out from all the Internet Business stuff today and share a story about a car which I think you would need to own an oil company to run.
It’s the Bugatti Veyron.
The Bugatti Veyron 16.4 is a mid-engine sports car produced by Volkswagen AG subsidiary Bugatti Automobiles SAS introduced in 2005. It is the quickest accelerating and decelerating street-legal production car in the world, and was the world’s fastest street-legal production car until the introduction of the SSC Ultimate Aero Twin Turbo produced by Shelby SuperCars.
Powered by a 1,001 PS (987 hp/736 kW) W16 engine, it is able to achieve an average top speed of 407.47 km/h (253.19 mph). The car reached full production in September 2005, and is hand crafted in a factory Volkswagen built near the former Bugatti headquarters in Château St Jean in Molsheim (Alsace, France). It is named after French racing driver Pierre Veyron, who won the 24 hours of Le Mans in 1939 while racing for the original Bugatti firm.
Oh and to give you an idea why I said you would need an oil company to run it here are the fuel consumption specs. The Veyron consumes more fuel than any other production car, using 40.4 L/100 km (6.99 mpg imp/5.82 mpg US) in city driving and 24.1 L/100 km (11.7 mpg imp/9.76 mpg US) in combined cycle. At full throttle, it uses more than 115 L/100 km (2.46 mpg imp/2.05 mpg US), which would empty its 100 L (26 US gal/22 imp gal) fuel tank in just 12 minutes 46 seconds. This is a safety measure studied by the engineers because after 15 straight minutes at 253 mph the tires would melt.
Have a look at this video produced by the guys from Top Gear.
If you would like to read more about the Bugatti Veyron you can visit Wikipedia.
Ian
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987 Horse power!!!! Oh man I can only imagine how that puts you back in your seat. I wonder how many they sell in a year?
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My goal in life is to get a car like that, it is just an absolute beast!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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You’re right. This is car really nuts…and it can make someone in it too.
Never could imagine how one’s brains would feel inside it when it accelerates from a complete stop to top speed. 5 G’s maybe?
With it’s whooping engine specs, I might have it race along an F-22 from a standstill to take-off…and probably get a win…well, provided I don’t run out of fuel though.
Do you know any production car to date that could pose a serious challenge?
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