The Bugatti Veyron is a truly incredible car. It beats other super cars on so many levels, it is just mind blowing. Here are some facts that make it extraordinary:
Just one set of tyres costs about €20.000 ($26.000), that’s only a tiny bit of the total price tag which is a staggering €1.9 million ($2.5 million), which you can expect from a car that is test driven for 500 km (312 miles), to make sure there are no defects, and the customer is happy,
which he will be with a car that delivers an enormous 1001 horsepower (1200 for the Super Sport version), which propels it to a top speed of 407 km/h (253 mph), which was not fast enough so they built the Super Sport version to reach 431 km/h (268 mph), both much faster than a Ferrari Enzo (350 km/h – 220 mph).
At 407 km/h, it sucks in the same amount of air in one minute, that a person uses to breath for four days, and at this speed, its tyres are destroyed after 15 minutes (€20.000 down the drain), but that wouldn’t happen in real life, because at top speed, its fuel tank runs dry in 12 minutes, which doesn’t have to happen either, because if you want to stop the car while driving 407km/h, its high tech brakes can stop you within 10 seconds. And still, while it sounds like an insane monster, it’s actually as comfortable to drive as a BMW or Mercedes. Compare that to the skills you need to handle a Ferrari.
So there you have it, an extremely rare combination of power and sophistication. A car that makes Ferrari’s look like turtles, yet is as comfortable to drive as a Mercedes. An engineering master piece, the Bugatti Veyron.