eyecandy

Originally Posted by Will

Veyron just doesn't do anything for me at all. It's looks are questionable and it's dynamics almost completely unusable.

Agree about the looks, not my cup of tea.

All the road tests I've seen and read comment on how utterly usable it really is, though. To me, that's the clever bit - there's any number of one-off Lingenfelter / Sledgehammer type cars that can match it for top-end pace, but nothing else that you can also use to toddle down to the shops in comfort. It's the range of its abilities that mark it out, just as much as the extremes.

TBH I think I'd prefer my Alfa and the money in the bank

Its certainly not a pretty car. It reminds me of a Scooby/EVO ie you admire it more for what it can do as opposed to the fact that its nice looking...

I saw my first one a few weeks ago in Grays Inn Road...being followed by a couple of Milk Shakes in a Phantom and a Bentley. Ugly looking car but you have to respect its engineering capabilities.
As Clarkson says, we will NEVER see its better. New EU regs mean car maufacturers will be fined heavily for producing cars with emissions > 170g/km after 2012, so we can kiss decent Ferraris good bye too.....boo hooo....all because of the Sun Spot related NATURAL Global Warming and Cooling phenomenon that has being happening for millions of years on this planet...long before anyone drove a Range Rover through central London in rush hour.

Rant over :O

100K for a plate is nothing compared to the cost of the car.

Stunning, you will be one of the lucky ones to actually see one on the road.

Originally Posted by jamieboy

Agree about the looks, not my cup of tea.

All the road tests I've seen and read comment on how utterly usable it really is, though. To me, that's the clever bit - there's any number of one-off Lingenfelter / Sledgehammer type cars that can match it for top-end pace, but nothing else that you can also use to toddle down to the shops in comfort. It's the range of its abilities that mark it out, just as much as the extremes.

Completely agree on both points, though I did read of a car or two that seem to have quite serious cooling problems, and we'll probably never know exactly how usable the cars are, since the owners will most likely use them very little (they are more like collectors' pieces).

I think if I was after something comfy, usable, unique and immensely powerfull I'd choose a Bentley Brooklands Bentley Motors: Brooklands Exterior Photography
and use the change to populate a garage of goodies starting at the beginning of the Alphabet (Alfabet) etc etc.

Originally Posted by SPPalfa

100K for a plate is nothing compared to the cost of the car.

Stunning, you will be one of the lucky ones to actually see one on the road.

Its not 100k its 250k the price of he plate can buy a zonda

Originally Posted by BigFoot

Completely agree on both points, though I did read of a car or two that seem to have quite serious cooling problems, and we'll probably never know exactly how usable the cars are, since the owners will most likely use them very little (they are more like collectors' pieces).

iirc there's only 5 made anyway. So deffo collectors peaces

No mate, there is a lot more than that

I'm with Will, I would have one, but never buy one

tbh i like the look of it,when your stood next to it (pics just dont do it justice)


and i have been told they have already sold 130 of them with another 270 planned

and the noise it makes oh the noise

i thought they only made 5 as they cost more to make then to sell??

http://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/31/b...on-rate-again/

Originally Posted by Will

I think if I was after something comfy, usable, unique and immensely powerfull I'd choose a Bentley Brooklands Bentley Motors: Brooklands Exterior Photography
and use the change to populate a garage of goodies starting at the beginning of the Alphabet (Alfabet) etc etc.

Bentleys are very beautiful.

Breitling make the watches for them

seen one on track in the phoniex park in dublin last august it was on track with a ford focus rally car the gap between them wasn't major and it's brakes went on fire

Originally Posted by baby278278

If i was a man now i would say ' i got wood'

Erm.... does this mean that there was a time when... No, no, the mind boggles.....

Originally Posted by explosive alfa

i thought they only made 5 as they cost more to make then to sell??

It was rumoured that VW lost £5M on every one they sold

Originally Posted by dxechick

It was rumoured that VW lost £5M on every one they sold

I'm not sure what the figure is exactly, but thats including research & development costs for the project, not just the constuction costs.. The R&D that they've done for the Veyron should trickle down into their other performance cars over the next ten years or so, so I'd imagine the project was probably good for vee-dub as a whole.