Ms. Bugatti?
Yes, it’s true, my first name is taken from a supercar. It was sort of an amusing name I decided on when I was stuck trying to come up with a name for Second Life. The kicker was when the surname Supercharge was available when I signed up.
No, I’m not a motorhead, but it is the name of my computer workstation at work (which is another story in itself). So the name fit, so to speak. Even if you’re not into cars, it is just entertaining to watch such an incredible piece of engineering strutting its stuff.
The Veyron itself is named after Pierre Veyron, a Grand Prix winner from the 1930’s to 1950’s.
The Veyron is a car of superlatives. It pretty much exceeds all other cars in almost every category. Top speed is 250 mph (405 kph). Don’t believe me? Watch this video.
It holds the record for a production car of the 0-1oo-0 acceleration test. That is go from zero to 100 mph to zero again. It did it in 9.9 seconds. Not bad for a 4000 pound car. It beat out a Suzuki superbike. Powering this speed demon is a W16 engine with four turbo chargers developing at least 1001 horsepower. It has full time four wheel drive and more torque than most semi-tractors rigs. It has a seven speed transmission….
You get all that, air condition, a car stereo, leather seats, cell phone for an easy $1.2M US.
Here you can watch it race an airplane across Europe….
-Veyron Supercharge
May 26th, 2007 at 2:56 pm
Ah ha!
I thought so. I was of course curious enough to check on your name, so being somewhat of a motorhead (Detroit Metro girl here) I just had to know. Thanks for the post.
May 26th, 2007 at 5:34 pm
So, what you are saying is that you’re fast? Faster than anyone else?
May 26th, 2007 at 6:34 pm
Only sometimes…. Sometimes slow is much better….
Jeremy Clarkson in the second video from Top Gear is pretty amusing. He is a very politically incorrect kind of guy….
May 26th, 2007 at 6:55 pm
I actually watched that video of the race between the car and the plane - I started expecting to find it dull (and I didn’t look and see it was 38 minutes long first :), but Clarkson and the rest were hysterically funny.
May 26th, 2007 at 8:06 pm
If you read his bio in the Wikipedia, you will see that his is a very naughty kind of guy….
He enjoys tweaking everyone who needs to be tweaked.
May 27th, 2007 at 8:18 am
OMG that was amazing! Thanks for the post and the link to the video. I want one.
May 27th, 2007 at 9:43 am
Okay, it can pass a Formula 1 racecar… but can it pass a gas station?
May 27th, 2007 at 12:51 pm
Hmmm… Well, at top speed, 253 mph it will drain it’s 100 litre tank in 12 minutes… But it will have gone quite a distance in 12 minutes.
It gets 7 mpg city, 10 mpg highway at normal speeds.
One of the more amusing gauges on it is the horsepower gauge. Watching and feeling that gauge roll over to 1000 must be tremendous. They pan to that gauge a few times in the video.
September 17th, 2007 at 3:23 pm
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