Bugatti Veyron - A deceiving soap box

You will be forgiven for thinking that the Bugatti Veyron is not aerodynamic in contrast to some of the cars that look like they can reach the moon. But not if you don't drool knowing what this machine can do.



Highlights:

1) Faster than any F1 car has ever gone
2) Covers 1 football field distance in 1 second at top speed 407.5 Km/hr
3) Comes with a boot, airconditioning and airbags unlike the F1s
4) According to Jeremy Clarkson, the host of Top Gear, in a speed race, if the McLaren F1 were allowed to reach 120 mph before the Bugatti started, the Bugatti would still be the first to reach 200 mph.
5) Tyres last for 15 minutes at full throttle but the fuel tank empties before that in 12 minutes
6) Has 10 heat radiators in lieu of 1 in most commercial vehicles
7) Its all yours for £840,000 while the production cost is estimated at £5 million per vehicle



The car is not without its share of criticism.

Gordon Murray, designer of the McLaren F1 (which at the time of creation was billed as the fastest production car ever built) said the following about the Bugatti Veyron in UK auto magazine evo during its development period:

"The most pointless exercise on the planet has got to be this four-wheel-drive 1000 horsepower Bugatti. I think it’s incredibly childish this thing people have about just one element—top speed or standing kilometre or 0-60. It’s about as narrow minded as you can get as a car designer to pick on one element. It’s like saying we’re going to beat the original Mini because we’re going to make a car 10 mph faster on its top speed—but it's two foot longer and 200 kilos heavier. That’s not car designing—that just reeks of a company who are paranoid."[citation needed]



Say what Mr. Murray, its incredible what this machine can do with all that weight and deceiving aerodynamics. This is engineering at one of its bests and pushed to the limits and saying otherwise will put one on the road to perdition.

Watch and hear the car reach the record speed:

Now I wait for the Car that will beat this one.