Clarkson drives the Bugatti..

[Boomy]

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Taken from the Times online, i aint copy pasting s@#t from it this time

[Phil. S]

That is to cars what concorde was to planes. Absolutely awsome. Can't wait to see it on Top Gear.

[Martin Keene]

Phil, I think you have just found the nail with that description.

Staggering piece of engineering. And I want one, badly...

And before anybody says anything, I'll be the first to admit it is stupid and pointless, but then aren't most of the best things in life.

And the big question, Why? Because man can...

[jeff oakley]

The car is awesome no doubt about it and the concorde analogy is spot on. Top gear sumed up what is wrong with this country last night against the rest of the world, we have become sterile in a world obsessed with cost and polictical correctness. That bridge is one of the engineering masterpieces of the world, elegant, functional but it wasn't built because there was a cheaper option, it was built as a celebration of a can do attitude the French have, a statement of national pride (designed by an english man) but imagine the uproar if we wanted to build one, years of legal challenges by the tree huggers and the other scocial misfits who rally to a casue, the endless cost comparisons of how it would pay for the whole of Africa to have water etc etc. We now find a hundred reasons not to do things in this country, instead of looking at the reasons to do it and the main one is because we can. Bugatti (VW) have done it because they can and have proved the doubters wrong in doing so. Is it a wates of time? To some definatly, but to the people who celebrate the thinkers who raise above mediocratey and overcome the naysayers it is a triumph.

[Martin Keene]

Hear Hear...

[Boomy]

..but to the people who celebrate the thinkers who raise above mediocratey and overcome the naysayers it is a triumph.

Very well said, but it is deffo a Bugatti mate.  

Amazing machine, the fact it says a McLaren F1 can be allowed to get up to 120mph and only then have the Bugatti leave the start line and STILL the Bugatti will beat it to 200mph says it all really.

[pistonbroke]

If you believe the Clarkson hype  

half of what he says there is garbidge, those speeds and power O/P are old hat

OK srartling and new maybe for a road car , but you would'nt use that to do the family shopping run call it what you will .

   

[Boomy]

I believe it is quite possible when you read various reports from various sources.

It was quite well documented that the Bugatti reaches 180mph a full 1 minute (yes 60ish seconds) quicker than an Aston Martin DB9 for example.

200 mph is achieved in under 20 seconds according to Wolfgang Schreiber, the chief engineer.

It also hits 60 at around the same speed F1 cars do, under 3 seconds.

[caterhamnut]

Those figures comparing performance to the F1 were printed in Autocar a few weeks ago - no reason to doubt them - Sinclair drove the car.

Was lucky enough to be at the top gear studio for the filming of last nights show.

Before hand they were running a Zonda on the track, with the Stig. There was a 30-ish bloke standing nearby having his picture taken by the car - someone said 'pretend you own it' - his mate said, 'he has the one in the car park over there...' sure enough, a black Zonda S (or whatever the new 'souped up one' is called) Speaking to him later in the studio he said he had only had it for 6 weeks, and had already put 3000 miles on it - including going to Safeways with it. Not everyone who buys these thinsg is a speculator or collector - they do get used.

Jef - spot on!

[Barry Ashcroft]

200 mph is achieved in under 20 seconds according to Wolfgang Schreiber, the chief engineer.

It also hits 60 at around the same speed F1 cars do, under 3 seconds.

That's nearly as quick as me westie