Thread: Bugatti: 407 km/h video

Check this out

not too shabby... I think I'm going to pass out if I did that? Only done a bit over 220 or so on my way to Miami

Cheers
Ivo

ok that's pretty fast alright.

I've hit 130 mph on a bike once and I thought that was fast (fast enough for me anyhow). Now I feel like super wuss...

Originally Posted by custommartini

I've hit 130 mph on a bike once and I thought that was fast (fast enough for me anyhow). Now I feel like super wuss...

130 on a bike is fast ---being exposed and all ---- my vote for not a wuss.


Justin

Originally Posted by custommartini

I've hit 130 mph on a bike once and I thought that was fast (fast enough for me anyhow). Now I feel like super wuss...

Same here but I think we get some extra credit for doing that while hanging out in the breeze.

What an incredible machine......................... 1,000 HP

What's the 0-60 for this thing?

Justin

Better yet, what's it's nurburgring time? Top speed is nice but it's just one piece of the pie.

Here we go: http://www.supercars.net/nurburgring.html

Porsche Carrera GT beats it by 12 seconds ---- I'm not surprised.

And I don't even know if the Bugatti is a production care. Both the Carrera GT and 911 GT3 beat it at the Nurburgring.

What amazes me is that Americans typically think that 100 miles per hour is an insane speed. For example during movie car chases.

Driving 100 mph on the highway (while above the limit) is not that extreme, especially at night when the roads are free.
Hell, in Germany there are places where there is no speed limit. Last year on holiday I did 110 mph and I had to drive in the middle lane to let the fast cars get past.

Disclaimer: this is of course driving with european cars. On my honeymoon we drove a US rental car. it was comfortable as anything, but it felt sluggish and with a too soft suspension.
And not having a manual stick shift kinda sucked as well.

Originally Posted by Bruno

What amazes me is that Americans typically think that 100 miles per hour is an insane speed. For example during movie car chases.

Driving 100 mph on the highway (while above the limit) is not that extreme, especially at night when the roads are free.
Hell, in Germany there are places where there is no speed limit. Last year on holiday I did 110 mph and I had to drive in the middle lane to let the fast cars get past.

Disclaimer: this is of course driving with european cars. On my honeymoon we drove a US rental car. it was comfortable as anything, but it felt sluggish and with a too soft suspension.
And not having a manual stick shift kinda sucked as well.

Bruno --not too many young American males think 100 mph is an insane speed --maybe illegal but not insane --- Americans tend to make a big deal about high speeds because it is illegal --but we break the law all the time.

Justin

The Bugatti Veyron isn't about lapping a track fast as it's big and heavy, it was more a design exercise to see how outrageously fast/powerful they could make a hypercar. IIRC they sold them for £600k each but the VAG group made a loss on every one - as they cost £2m each to make. It was purely a design exercise, and of course for corporate PR "my hypercar is faster than yours" etc.

That's some pretty insane speed though. I've driven one of my previous cars (Subaru P1) at 161mph on a public road before, I'm not saying where, but there are a few places where this is legal in Europe. I've also ridden a bike at over 160mph (that was so scary I don't want to think about it). Fastest I've ever been on public roads was just over 170mph at night as a passenger in a Lamborghini belonging to a friend, the speed limit on that road was 60mph and it was about the most horrible motoring experience I've ever had.

It's well out of my system now, speed doesn't impress me any more. I rarely go over the speed limits these days, and prefer to try and go for high scores on my fuel economy computer.