2017 Bugatti Chiron ~ $3 million USD

[Homer J Simpson]

[Ampera]

A car for rich people to crash on the highway because they are too stupid to know how to drive it.

[GreyWoolfe]

Nothing exceeds like excess.

[German_EE]

Very nice, now head down to the hardware store for me and pick up a 2m length of timber.

[Electro Detective]

How many kilos of ice does that thing cost ? 

[Wytnucls]

Carbon fiber, pfff. I'll only buy one when it's made out of titanium.

[Ampera]

Carbon fiber, pfff. I'll only buy one when it's made out of titanium.

I honestly, truly feel sorry for you and the rest of the peasants.

Everything I own is made out of pure unobtanium. There is no substitute. Even my food is made of it.

[janoc]

A car for rich people to crash on the highway because they are too stupid to know how to drive it.

It gets better. In Slovakia one mafio..errr.. businessman with close ties to the political elite had the previous gen Veyron. For the most part it was taking up only public parking and collecting parking fines (there is a lovely photo of a Veyron with a clamped wheel online) because he didn't really have means to neither drive nor maintain it after his business hit a dry patch. It ended up for sale recently.

https://auto.sme.sk/c/4386901/luxusny-sportiak-nie-je-vynimka-dostal-v-bratislave-papucu.html

[stj]

pointless waste of money unless you visit a track.
most western country's are now broke and the roads are crumbling.

if the u.k. gets much worse, we will have to start importing these! 
http://avtoros.info/en/landings/shaman/

[Zero999]

pointless waste of money unless you visit a track.
most western country's are now broke and the roads are crumbling.

if the u.k. gets much worse, we will have to start importing these! 
http://avtoros.info/en/landings/shaman/

I imagine people with that much money to spare would have their own track or could rent one.

Personally, I don't like driving and couldn't care less about cars.

[janoc]

pointless waste of money unless you visit a track.
most western country's are now broke and the roads are crumbling.

It is pointless even if you do visit a track.

Veyron is terrible for track driving, both because of the size, weight and the expense. It is said that it can go full blast for about 15 minutes max, because then the tires will fall apart, shredded. But that's ok, because the full gas tank lasts only about 12 minutes at that speed.

It is an extreme car but not really a racing car. Bugattis are nothing else but expensive driveway/showroom decor.

[amyk]

I couldn't find the service manual.

[nctnico]

I couldn't find the service manual.

Yeah I doubt this car scores great on doing some maintenance yourself.

[Ampera]

pointless waste of money unless you visit a track.
most western country's are now broke and the roads are crumbling.

if the u.k. gets much worse, we will have to start importing these! 
http://avtoros.info/en/landings/shaman/

There are cars that are actually MADE for the track. The coolest one that I've seen is the Ariel Atom. It beat out the Veyron on the Top Gear testing track, not because it's got the bigger engine, or even that it has a faster top speed. It's the fact that it's made specifically for track work, with higher acceleration and better handling than the Bugatti. Just because a car has a very fast top speed doesn't mean that it will go fast everywhere.

[Kjelt]

The tires on the Bugatti are enormous expensive just because they have to and can withstand the maximum speed.

[Electro Detective]

These overpriced mobile death traps are for rich gun runners, drug dealers and spoilt oil baron dummy spitting offspring to help them pick up and flaunt cheap women masquerading as classy ladies. 

On the upside they are useful items to keep car jackers and insurance staff in a job   

 

 

[hans]

Meh not my type of car. It's too over the top in terms of being exclusive, just because it needs to be the most exclusive thing. Any hatchback will be more fun around corners , but then again even the most hottest hatchback will probably top out 250km/h. The Veyron model already was tested up to 407km/h at Top Gear years ago:


Of course the engineering is quite impressive, everything is properly over engineered "just because" and partly explains the price tag.
The Chiron apparently has a 16-cilinder W-shaped engine, 8.0L, 4 turbo chargers, 1500horsepower. That's pure insanity. But that thing is heavy.. almost 2 tons.

TBH far more impressed with what Koenigsegg is making. Now this is absolute pure insanity with "only" 1MW, i.e. , ~1360bhp, with 1360kg. My own car doesn't even get to 100km/h in the time this car gets to 300km/h and back to zero..

https://youtu.be/02K1CaUpAJA?t=2m8s

But yeah.. besides minds that wander off for the average petrolhead, and some expensive toy for a rich boy.. it's pure technological and money showoff.

[RGB255_0_0]

pointless waste of money unless you visit a track.
most western country's are now broke and the roads are crumbling.

if the u.k. gets much worse, we will have to start importing these! 
http://avtoros.info/en/landings/shaman/

With the way Brexit is going we'll be importing Tuk Tuks.

[Ampera]

You Brits will be WISHING you had our cheap pot iron trucks.

[Electro Detective]

No one yet has mentioned the important stuff like the sound system ! 

and most important, how much precious boot space is available for picking up used test equipment scores on Ebay 
how many rival gang bodies can be tucked in,
and the usual access cavities for spare tyre, tools, dope stash, 00zies etc 

 

[Ampera]

No one yet has mentioned the important stuff like the sound system ! 

and most important, how much precious boot space is available for picking up used test equipment scores on Ebay 
how many rival gang bodies can be tucked in,
and the usual access cavities for spare tyre, tools, dope stash, 00zies etc 

Gang leaders don't use those sorts of cars. Especially in America they have the biggest truck with the largest engine you can find, and who the hell needs a muffler?

[GreyWoolfe]

No one yet has mentioned the important stuff like the sound system ! 

and most important, how much precious boot space is available for picking up used test equipment scores on Ebay 
how many rival gang bodies can be tucked in,
and the usual access cavities for spare tyre, tools, dope stash, 00zies etc 

You can see the storage space under the bonnet.  You couldn't fit a Tek 7000 series scope in there.

[SeanB]

Storage just has to fit a few golf clubs, the caddy will already have the golf cart at the course for you to be driven around. You will need to pack your special high cost custom made balls as well, Slazenger or Titelist just do not match the car interior.

[HighVoltage]

These cars are for the rich as an investment only and not to b driven.

Yes, some drive them them like idiots and crash them but even then they most likely make money.
I know a guy with a very expensive Ferrari, he insured it well, crashed it and made a ton of money from the accident.
It is all about the money and not about the car.

[stj]

and who the hell needs a muffler?

like this?