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?

 

[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/

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

well we already imported a huge number of experienced tuk tuk drivers! 

[Kjelt]

well we already imported a huge number of experienced tuk tuk drivers! 

You started doing that in the 19th century, some of their grandsons own buildingblocks and have more money on the bank anyone of us will ever see. 

[Kjelt]

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. 

Yeah, Tom Cruise has one! 
In our country criminals stopped buying the expensive italian sport cars, hummers, suvs with golden mirrors etc because they were stopped continuously by the police, they attract too much attention. They switched to insuspicious rental and second hand cars.
The police however has not evolved, so now illegal stops are made and lawsuits started by DJs, new money people and other persons that still buy these kind of cars 
BTW if criminals do a heist or other hit and run, they steal Audi Sx cars and stationwagons. So I think a new law should be passed that however buys an Audi Sx should place it in a garage with alarmsystem or he will be prosecuted for abetting crime 

[VK3DRB]

In socially and morally advanced countries like France, Sweden and Australia, it is considered poor taste, rude and crass to flaunt wealth. In these countries a decent person is not how much he can boast or save face, but how much he gives to others and the community. So such cars are extremely rare here.

[tszaboo]

In socially and morally advanced countries like France...

There is no way to park that car. You cannot use it on the highway, because the suspension is for the speed, not comfort. You cannot use it in the countryside, as it will kill you in a fraction of a second.

This is a car for people in countries with too much money, nothing to do and without taste and class. Basically for Saudi Arabia.

[stj]

it's too cheap for saudi's
besides, does it come in platinum? and i dont mean paint - i mean plate!

[CJay]

Y'know what, you're wrong.

I've seen several Veyron on the road, had a nice chat with a lovely bloke who owned a Veyron, that was in a National Trust car park, he seemed a genuinely pleasant bloke who was justifiably proud of his car and was happy to chat about it and life in general.

There's an occasional appearance of a Veyron driven by a rather fetching woman in Manchester, she's not at all keen to chat, there's also a Ferrari Enzo kicking around Manchester, the driver is always smiling and is usually fairly impressed when people know what the car is.

They're rare but that doesn't mean they're not out there being driven.

Same thing was said about the McLaren F1, there weren't many of them but again, I've seen a couple and have even seen Rowan Atkinson driving his out on the A590 in Cumbria.

Going downscale a bit, friend of mine has a Ferrari F355 F1 in his four bed semi detached house's garage.

Next to his Bentley.

If I could afford a Veyron or Chiron?

Yes, I'd have one, yes it'd spend a lot of it's life in a centrally heated secure garage but hell yes, I'd drive it on the road and I'd have a metric f*ck ton of fun with it...

Of course I'd need a Bentley to collect the T&M bargains as well.

[Yansi]

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

That brown car is soooo f'kin ugly... Blarrgh...

[Jeroen3]

It's a car for oil solar sheikhs to park in Dubai.

[stj]

if i had the money, i'd rather have an 8x8 APC.
something like a BMP4 or OT64
no concern about the road conditions(or presence of!) or flooding or being key'd.
insurance probably penny's - it's not like it would be damaged in a crash!

the only issue would be swapping out the engine for something compatable with the latest bolshevik rules laid down by the environuts.
probably EURO6, unless that's not good enough for them now! 

[schmitt trigger]

In socially and morally advanced countries like France...

There is no way to park that car. You cannot use it on the highway, because the suspension is for the speed, not comfort. You cannot use it in the countryside, as it will kill you in a fraction of a second.

This is a car for people in countries with too much money, nothing to do and without taste and class. Basically for Saudi Arabia.

Actually, the Emirates.

There are a few Youtube videos, of Bugattis and similar supercars running in desert highways.
There is even one (not a Bugatti, something else) catching fire and burning to the ground.

[CJay]

There are a few Youtube videos, of Bugattis and similar supercars running in desert highways.
There is even one (not a Bugatti, something else) catching fire and burning to the ground.

There was a Lamborghini I think that had a reputation of catching fire, Gallardo or Aventador maybe?, there was also a Ferrari, in fact I saw one ablaze on the hard shoulder of a motorway a few miles from my home, complete with rather too calm footballer owner stood a safe distance from it (I regularly see Manchester United and Manchester City players driving their toys to practice sessions)

[tszaboo]

There are a few Youtube videos, of Bugattis and similar supercars running in desert highways.
There is even one (not a Bugatti, something else) catching fire and burning to the ground.

There was a Lamborghini I think that had a reputation of catching fire, Gallardo or Aventador maybe?, there was also a Ferrari, in fact I saw one ablaze on the hard shoulder of a motorway a few miles from my home, complete with rather too calm footballer owner stood a safe distance from it (I regularly see Manchester United and Manchester City players driving their toys to practice sessions)

Italian cars basically. You should buy two of them, so you drive the other one while your car is sitting at the mechanic. Like a wife and a mistress, you love both of them. Also have the Roadside Assistance on speed dial on your phone.

[CJay]

Except, Lamborghini are owned by Audi/VAG now, as are Bugatti.

Not that it'd stop me.

We used to have a salesman who owned a Dino many years ago, he was utterly disgusted by the amount of time it spent in the garage and drove a Ford Fiesta when the Dino was being repaired.

So, he spent a lot of time in the Fiesta