Top Gear - Bugatti Veyron...

I've got a cold too! :)

it aint no cold! lol

I'll have the new Marcos, please. That looks a bit mental.

Good lord that was a special car.

Mistake corrected ;-P

Heh - like it even matters when you can go 0-200 faster than a McLaren F1 can go 120-200, and your indicator stalk cost £4000 :D

Just slightly. Would have like to seen a bit more use of the power. It's all well and good JC going on about how quick it is, but you cant really appreciate it from some in car footage on some French A roads. The F1 vs Veyron test would be a good demonstration!!

Back to reality though, and that Marcos was pretty cool!!

Didn't I read somewhere that Clarkson said off the record he got it to

Mega looking thing, eh? Makes quite a good noise too, especially all that electrical whining on start up. Sounds like a proper piece of industrial cleverness in a bar of soap body. Top stuff.

I think that Jeremy Clarkson maybe onto something about the Concorde-of-the-car-world thing too, doesn't seem to be many reasons to let engineers out to play anymore, sadly (and quite shamefully, in my not so humble opinion).

Still, at least the technology in that thing will eventually trickle down to more prosaic motors. If they can help to improve the reliability of things even further; result.

Do you know whether or not the gearbox is one of thom thar fancy DSG units (or whatever the acronym is) or not? Just curious.

Shame they didn't send it round the test track though. Could have got Mansell to drive it, he's a bit of a savage.

It's a dual clutch job yea - in Evo they talk about how it was made, and how they had to basically invent a new alloy to make it out of, because nothing current would take the stress!

I bet he did. But you cant go plastering that over the TV, so it was a bit of a waste really. Should have got Stig in it round the track!

Mansell is a legend - his lap was well impressive.

It is a shame we didn't see the Veyron go round the track - but they had it there, you just know they all had a go and the Stig took it round...

Well, at least some good research will have come out of it, if nothing else.

Sort of, in a "wouldn't mind a go" sort of way. however if Mr Clarkson really wanted to piss on Hamster & Slow's chips he would do the drive in something much more suitable. Such as a Mondeo diesel or an Avensis Diesel, or an Audi A6.

Not because these are "better" cars, but most of them could probably do the entire routew without stopping for fuel. Which means that point to point they will be faster than any exoticar.

OTOH having just done 250 miles in a Mondeo diesel, I think that whereas the car itself is an under-rated vehicle, the bloody seats are s**te, inducing back and bum ache on any drive over 1200 miles.

I think I read that one too. The gearbox alone takes something like 20l of oil. Immense!

There's more info on the Bugatti site.

I was just playing 'spot the bits they dragged out of the VAG parts catalogue' whilst watching that.

Idiot lights taken from a late 90s Golf / Passat, a couple of Passat engines welded together and a MkV GTI gearbox. Those wheels looked just like S6 / S8 items, too.

Sadly, it seems the Germans just don't understand the concept of such cars.