"The Bugatti annihilated the top speed of each of its supercar rivals with a run of 250mph."
A few hours of driving and and an equivalent amount meeting today in this 39C smokey heat pretty much eliminated Saturday. It was certainly nothing like near perfect road-test assortment of Lambo 640, Ferrari 599, Bugatti Veyron, 997 Turbo and testing the straightline speed at the Ehra-Lessien test track in northern Germany. So the Bugatti won of course (2.5 secs 0-100km/250 mph top speed) and it's a bit on the ugly side, but it's stats are killa.
SpeedTV : "The Bugatti annihilated the top speed of each of its supercar rivals with a run of 250mph (249.84mph, to be exact). The way it manages to compress time with its sheer speed is breathtaking, and goes a long way to justifying the gobsmacking $1.6m price tag. It isn’t relaxing to drive when you’re licking along at over four miles per minute, but it doesn’t ask any more of its driver than the other cars. All that was really required was a heavy right foot and some steely determination heading out of the banked curves onto the back straight. In fact, it gets better the faster you go: the stability increases markedly as the rear spoiler deploys, and the front air ducts are automatically blanked off to reduce the build-up of pressure within the front end. It was only in the final push where its aerodynamic properties begin to feel the pinch. In the end, we didn’t quite manage to verify the official top speed of 252mph, but as we approached the southern turnaround point on Ehra-Lessien’s back straight we saw 250mph flash up on our data recorder."
BB : Obviously the car to choose here would be the F599. Makes the 430 look like a hairdresser's car, and can be driven as a daily drive (like the 997 Turbo) but has the art on wheels factor. Sleep now.
SpeedTV : "The Bugatti annihilated the top speed of each of its supercar rivals with a run of 250mph (249.84mph, to be exact). The way it manages to compress time with its sheer speed is breathtaking, and goes a long way to justifying the gobsmacking $1.6m price tag. It isn’t relaxing to drive when you’re licking along at over four miles per minute, but it doesn’t ask any more of its driver than the other cars. All that was really required was a heavy right foot and some steely determination heading out of the banked curves onto the back straight. In fact, it gets better the faster you go: the stability increases markedly as the rear spoiler deploys, and the front air ducts are automatically blanked off to reduce the build-up of pressure within the front end. It was only in the final push where its aerodynamic properties begin to feel the pinch. In the end, we didn’t quite manage to verify the official top speed of 252mph, but as we approached the southern turnaround point on Ehra-Lessien’s back straight we saw 250mph flash up on our data recorder."
BB : Obviously the car to choose here would be the F599. Makes the 430 look like a hairdresser's car, and can be driven as a daily drive (like the 997 Turbo) but has the art on wheels factor. Sleep now.
posted by redbarren at 1:29 AM
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