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The worlds Most Expensive & fastest Car - The Bugatti Veyron will be let loose on the streets later this year. Whether we will see them in the Uk remains to be seen. Its faster than a F1 Car at 250mph Cost- A cool £750,000 Engine-an 8 ltr 1001bhp Wow!!

Will the Police Be Able to keep Up?

If you haven't seen it look here -
http://www.webwombat.com.au/motoring/news_reports/bugatti1.htm

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RoADA Member -GOLD 2008
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

Oh my god, what an incredible car.

Dear Santa
For christmas this year, I would like.........

As for keeping up, that would outrun a helicopter no problem, so we'll just sting it instead

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'Detritus, get yer stoney arse over ere'

I suspect on the mountain roads round your way a Scooby or similar could keep up with it without much difficulty.

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I expect Santa Will be ordering One as well to replace His Sleigh ,get his deliveries done In Quadruple Time

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If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

At last! It's taken years, i remember reading about it many moons ago...

Have got to say though, what is the point of such a car? I know it's all about pushing technology as far as possible (which in 5-10 years time will filter down to the mainstream market), but is that much power not just silly?

I've always noticed that the drivers with particulary powerful cars tend to be the worst for observation, position etc. Having said that it does depend on the car. Specialist marques such as TVR, Noble etc tend to be good (as they nearly always have taken further training because of their love of driving). However, the 'money brigade' tend to be pretty cr*p, i.e the one's who have tvr money but spend it on M3, SL etc....

Not generalising or anything!!

Last I heard of the Veryon was on the last series of Top Gear when they were wondering if the thing would ever really be built. IIRC they expressed some doubts over whether anybody made a road going tyre that could cope . Sounds like that's sorted now, but will they Jezza & Co. have a play in one after they took the pi$$?

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Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler - Einstein

I'm sure they'll get their mitts on one, then it will be seen if Mr Stig can break the enzo lap record. Personally I'd save my money and buy the atom 2nd fastest and £29,000
Can you imagine if they get the downforce wrong on this thing you'll go airborne
Does anyone actually know who the Stig is

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'Detritus, get yer stoney arse over ere'

Through the power of the net, I have now answered my own question. In the first series, it was some bloke called Perry, now its strongly believed to be this bloke www.bencollinsracing.co.uk/profile.htm

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'Detritus, get yer stoney arse over ere'

An Areil Atom would probably be cheaper than the insurance on the Veryon . Equally barking in different ways.

No idea who the current Stig is, but there was some thought that the original Stig was Alain Menu 'cos of a French accent being mentioned a couple of times, but I doubt there was any more to it than that (and yeah, I know he's not actually French).

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Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler - Einstein

I've just read all the specs peoperly now, this car is beserck!, if you sneeze on the M4 Severn crossing, when you look up you'll be in Basildon I can't even imagine the cost of running it, but I suppose if you're thinking like that, you can't.
Still it's nice to dream

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'Detritus, get yer stoney arse over ere'

The owner would probably get a Sack load of Speeding Fines- Can you see them Poodling A long through a 20mph Limit?

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If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

The first (black) Stig was Perry McCarthy,
The current (white) Stig is generally believed to be Ben Collins

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Ticketo ergo sum : I scam therefore I am!

That's cutting.

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Ross

Yes I'm a hoon, but only on the track!!!!

Yes, but you tend to notice them more with all the flourescent paint and the blue lights on the roof.

That's your card marked Homer!!!!

Is it my imagination, or is their a little bit of Lotus elise in that design

Rather alot of money for 250 mph, that you could not use.

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Steve

Well, if you know of any other car that can do 250mph for less money..

and while the owner may not be able to do 250mph on any public road (even Germany) i rather suspect that with the expected level of torque the acceleration will be enough to hit 200mph on certain roads without too much fuss.

1000 BHP is nothing when compared to the Ghostrider Hyabusa that is chucking 500 BHP at the back wheel and the whole package weighs in at under 400lbs (that's an effective power to weight ratio of well over 1000 BHP per tonne).

Nobody actually knows what the top speed is, but it has been clocked on a track using GPS at just over 280mph and still accelerating (hell, the owner has video footage of himself overtaking a Blackbird at 200mph on the back wheel in the pissing rain and disappearing out of camera view in under 4 seconds).

It's not that expensive either, you can have one just like it for £13,000 all in (now that is a cheap way of going incredibly fast).

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What makes you think I'm drunk officer, have I got a fat bird with me?

Why not just buy a ticket on the TGV!?

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-mike[F]
Caught in the rush of the crowd, lost in a wall of sound..

There'll be so few in the country that I think our PC friends will know where to look! Talk about advertising your presence.