Bugatti Veyron

[ballsie]

Believe it or not, Romans have one for sale! Nearly p*ssed myself when I saw it! :twisted:

http://www.romansinternational.co.uk/pages/car.asp?id=309

[HPI Pro4]

It'll end up in someones rich gits private collection, never to see the light of day again. Like most of the most exclusive supercars models.

[Maxxed_Ross]

good cos it's flippin ugly :p

You'd have to have more money than sense to buy one anyway. What would you use it for? You couldn't park it anywhere... it would get key'd to hell even if you could find a space big enough for it :lol:

;-)

[Grant Barclay]

ross its a masterpeice of engineering, how many car makers can claim that they have the most powerful supercar in the work that does ovr 250mph. i think its well worth the £800,000 price tag.

[Colin Barclay]

I heard it costs Bugatti 5 million Euros to make each one but they're only selling them for 1 million. Something about it wasn't for profit but just to see if it could be done.

[Maxxed_Ross]

ross its a masterpeice of engineering

it's a total joke... it's only got all that power because it looses so much of it before it even gets to the wheels, flywheels figures don't cut it with me I'm afraid :mrgreen:

oh and nobody has mentioned that at said top speed it'll empty a full tank in 5 mins :???:

Nice idea, but silly :neutral:

[ballsie]

I tend to agree with the Barclays - this is the car equivalent of Concorde. Indicator stocks that cost £4000, the first car to offer 250mph performance without needing to be a racing driver to enjoy it etc.

There are transmission losses for a reason - reliability! This was built by the VAG group remember! Remember that this isn't a roadgoing race car like the McLaren F1GTR, it has to be comfortable, quiet and easy to drive. You're always going to get a fairly high percentage of transmisson losses in a 4WD car, you just have to accept it; it's their main downfall.

Rememeber there's still a colosal amount of torque produced by this thing and that's obviously measured at the wheels. :)

[Garrypd160]

Just to let you all know, its now resting outside my house.

I done some overtime this week so I had a spare million. I think I'll respray it yellow though. Its not very noticeable!

[ballsie]

lol :D

[HPI Pro4]

it's a total joke... it's only got all that power because it looses so much of it before it even gets to the wheels, flywheels figures don't cut it with me I'm afraid :mrgreen:

oh and nobody has mentioned that at said top speed it'll empty a full tank in 5 mins :???:

Nice idea, but silly :neutral:
Wow.

[Maxxed_Ross]

I tend to agree with the Barclays - this is the car equivalent of Concorde. )

yeah it is - far too expensive and unpractical :lol:

Think I'd have the new koinsegg (sp) over a Veyron though, they just look so much cooler :mrgreen:

[Grant Barclay]

yeah id have one of them aswell but i still think it takes 2nd place compared with the veyron.

[Colin Barclay]

far too expensive and unpractical

Isn't that all supercars. That's where the Maclaren SLR fails to be a supercar - they have made the boot big enough for a golf bag (or 2 I can't remeber lol).

[Garrypd160]

Isn't that all supercars. That's where the Maclaren SLR fails to be a supercar - they have made the boot big enough for a golf bag (or 2 I can't remeber lol).


Nah, I drive my Enzo all the time. Fair enough so far its cost me £30k in repairs from hitting speed bumps and potholes etc but its worth it.

I think you'll find that out of all the supercars, the Bugatti is probably the most practical, and could be driven everyday if you lived anywhere other than the UK where the state of the roads is atrocious

[HPI Pro4]

Thats exactly why the Bugatti is so amazing. Just think of the engineering that went into creating a 1000bhp road car, that doesnt brake down every time you turn it on.

[Maxxed_Ross]

Buy a skyline or supra and do it for a fraction of that :mrgreen:

[ballsie]

And watch it blow up!

[Maxxed_Ross]

erm nah :???:

It will if you boot it everywhere all the time... but who's to say the Veyron won't? :twisted:

[Garrypd160]

To build a skyline or supra with that kind of power will take 100k at least, and you'll have a car that is virtually undriveable on the roads, will need and enine rebuild every 5-6k miles, and will never have the road presence of a Veyron.

Methinks someone reads a bit too much Max Power :-D

[Grant Barclay]

ross the veyron wont because it was designed form the start to have 1000hp unlike the skyline/supra which wasnt, and doing to put many of the compnents under stresses which they were never designed to take.

[HPI Pro4]

I was going to say in my last post the only other way you can have 1000bhp is by tuning a jap car, but i didnt think anyone here was silly enough to consider that as a option over the veyron because of the dire reliablity and maintence required. Ross proves me wrong.

[Big Gordy]

Here we go again:evil:
Why do you young guys always try to turn this forim into a slagging match:???: OK the VW thing produces 1000bhp but it costs how much....As with most things its a personnal choice....some people like to buy a car thats been designed for them others like to let there creative side loose and design what they want not what someone else thinks you want.
As I'm begining to realise all to often HPI Pro 4 you use this forum to take a pop at Ross (why don't know....:confused: )

[Maxxed_Ross]

probably because he's too much of a wimp to do it in person :twisted:

Ok tuning a jap car would take alot of cash, but its how you spen it thats the fun bit. You get to personalise every aspect of the car. You don't even have to do that much to it before you'll comfortably wipe the floor with Ferraris and the like. Any Tom Dick or Harry could go out and buy a car thats already got all that.... but where's the fun in that?

As for unpractical... next to a Vayron that's a very very weak argument. Would you go shopping in it or put the wife kids and a dog in it for a wee run somewhere? Doubt it :mrgreen:

Like I said originally, impressive engineering but a bit silly.

[big si]

Would you go shopping in it or put the wife kids and a dog in it for a wee run somewhere? Doubt it :mrgreen:
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this isnt the point in a car like this though


whats been done here is someone said it couldnt be done to make a road going car with 1000 bhp that can be run for more than 1000 miles without the need for an engine rebuild (just look at the prototype bugati EB110 with its quad turbos. The chassis twisted with the torque)

[Grant Barclay]

i can see ross' point saying that the car is somewhat silly, yes because if you bought it its extremely unlikely that you wuld ever be able to use the preformance of the car, its the same with all super cars. there main purpose is to go fast round a track same with modified cars. the whole point of these cars is preformace and the downside is that this preformance cant really be legally used on public roads.

[Big Gordy]

And its one of the ugliest supercars you can buy:mrgreen: Makes a lovely noise tho:-D

[Big Gordy]

How much were these things? Seem to remember a million quid...!! You could have a different 1000bhp modified jap car for every day of the week and still have loads of change:mrgreen: Sorry to say there would be loads of other cars on my list waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay before I would buy one of these:evil:

[HPI Pro4]

probably because he's too much of a wimp to do it in person :twisted:
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Haha. Yeah, thats right, im afraid to say you make garbage arguements to your face. Nearly everytime someone disagrees with you (in this thread everyone, but your dad) it ends up with you saying "he wouldnt say it to my face".

Your opening arguement:

"What would you use it for? You couldn't park it anywhere... it would get key'd to hell even if you could find a space big enough for it"

This has nothing to do with the car. If you think a cars garbage because it would get keyd or you could find a parking space for it, you deserve to be flamed.
Sorry for picking on your son Gordon, i wont do it again. I actually cant remember the last time i argued with Ross on here cause it was so long ago, But i still remember it was fun.

[Maxxed_Ross]

Haha. Yeah, thats right, im afraid to say you make garbage arguements to your face. Nearly everytime someone disagrees with you (in this thread everyone, but your dad) it ends up with you saying "he wouldnt say it to my face".

Actually I'd be very suprised if you said anything to my face... all the years you've been at FRCC I don't think I've ever heard you speak :roll: So you keep on taking all this personally and having a go from the safety of your PC. I don't really care what you think. Grow up and have a proper discussion like the rest of us are :-D

i can see ross' point saying that the car is somewhat silly, yes because if you bought it its extremely unlikely that you wuld ever be able to use the preformance of the car, its the same with all super cars. there main purpose is to go fast round a track same with modified cars. the whole point of these cars is preformace and the downside is that this preformance cant really be legally used on public roads.

Grant has hit it there, unless you are planning on taking it to the Nurburg Ring then you'll never get the benefit of any of that power without seriously breaking the law. The only thing all that power will be good for with most owners is blagging rights down the golf club (assuming of course you can get golf clubs in it? :p )

I'd far rather have one of the "lesser" supercars that you could use everyday, there's plenty about.

[Maxxed_Ross]

this isnt the point in a car like this though


whats been done here is someone said it couldnt be done to make a road going car with 1000 bhp that can be run for more than 1000 miles without the need for an engine rebuild (just look at the prototype bugati EB110 with its quad turbos. The chassis twisted with the torque)

ah but who's to say the Veyron won't need rebuilt after a short time? It's so new no one really knows what it will be like long term, especially if you drive it like a racing car all the time. All supercars are a tad fragile. Koinesegg tell you when you buy a car from them that you are effecively a company test driver :twisted:

They should enter one in the likes of Le Mans and see how it fairs :mrgreen:

[ballsie]

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