Bugatti Veyron: Utterly, stunningly, jaw droppingly brilliant

"Utterly, stunningly, jaw droppingly brilliant": this is the summary of Jeremy Clarkson's, known from TopGear, test drive with the Bugatti Veyron!

When you push a car past 180mph, the world starts to get awfully fizzy and a little bit frightening. When you go past 200mph it actually becomes blurred. Almost like you’re trapped in an early Queen pop video. At this sort of speed the tyres and the suspension are reacting to events that happened some time ago, and they have not finished reacting before they’re being asked to do something else. The result is a terrifying vibration that rattles your optical nerves, causing double vision. This is not good when you’re covering 300ft a second.

Happily, stopping distances become irrelevant because you won’t see the obstacle in the first place. By the time you know it was there, you’ll have gone through the windscreen, through the Pearly Gates and be half way across God’s breakfast table.

This article is a must read! Not because of some Veyron news, but because of Jeremy's stunning way of writing.

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Source: The Times Online

Bugatti Veyron: Utterly, stunningly, jaw droppingly brilliant

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