Beautiful Bugatti Belongs on Burrow Blog

I know, title sucks but nyeahh

OK, so I'm watching this show called Top Gear and they introduce me to my new love and I just had to write this down because I can't think of anything else to blog about. It's the Bugatti Veyron.

I don't know if any of you know about this car, but you should. You should.

For the car lovers, it has a 8.0L, W16, Quad Turbocharged, 987 BHP mid mounted engine. All in a car that weighs Kerb weight of 1888Kg. What this all boils down to is a top speed of 253.8 mph in a car that, in my humble opinion, is absolutely gorgeous.

I have been a Lamborghini fan (excluding the Diablo which I didn't care for) since I was a teenager and saw my first Countach. They are sleek, low vehicles with beautiful lines and curves. I will (of course) admit that the speed is a big selling point, but it's the way the car looks that I fell in love with. Not to mention the sound, with cars, you always have to consider the sound.

Then came along the Bugatti. As usual, it was the way it looked that made me go "Oh Baby!" It doesn't look anything like the Lamborghini. A Lamborghini is low and wide and sleek with a sharp nose. The Bugatti looks fatter and rounder (check it out on wikipedia) but it also looks sleeker and, well, better. The measurements stack up as follows: Lamborghini is 81"wide, 44.8" high and 181.5 long, with a 104.9" wheelbase, whereas the Bugatti is 78.1"wide, 45.8" high and 175.7 long, with a 106.7" wheelbase. Somehow, this makes the Bugatti seem smaller, almost like a one-person car.

When they test drove it on Top Gear, they used the Volkswagen test track in Germany that has a 5 mile long stretch of flat, straight road so that Richard Hammond could get it up to its alleged top speed. I don't remember if he actually made it (I know he got very close), but I do remember watching it move and it further convinced me to love the car. They never managed to get the car an to their "test track," where they time various cars and place the times on a board, because Bugatti wouldn't let them. Bummer.

And now the down-sides. As far as I can tell, there is only one (mileage doesn't count because it's a Super Car). The cost. It is somewhere around $1.4million, which is something I am not going to be able to afford in my lifetime. But hey, a man can dream, can't he.

Peace up

Charles

Gott spielt nicht verful mit dem Universum. A.E.