Friday, September 08, 2006

Hell on Wheels

Normally I am not a car fanatic, sure I know the cls and the cls 500, several different classes of Lexus and other nice cars, but I have beheld something so massive, so incredible, so blooming fast I just had to show you: It is called the Bugatti Veyron 16.4 and is quite possibly the fastest car out there. I first saw it in an article that was titled: 1000 Horsepower. Any Questions? The rest would probably bore any one but a car fanatic, but here are some pix, to give you an idea of what the crazy thing looks like. I said I wouldn't go into details but I can't help myself. The blooming car goes over 400 kph at top speed and can last for 12 minutes on a full tank of fuel. At top speed, it can come to a complete stop in 10 seconds, but it takes it a kilometer to do so. This beast is the engine, which delivers 1001 metric horse powers, and should be made illegal except to me.
This is probably not at 400 k's, but you get something of an idea on the incredible velocity attainable by this beast. I'll quote from the magazine one last time before I conclude: To go beyond 375 kph (233 mph), the driver must stop the car, insert a special key, and go through a checklist ("Seatbelts, check; oil, check; last will and testament, check"). There are only 300 of these purdy things out, and that's it. They also run at 1.7 million us bucks, just in case anyone really wanted one, but where you would go to get one I don't know.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

oh, never mind my last comment. well, mind it, but not the part about this car (naturally). pray tell, dear friend, where in yemen precisely were you planning to use this monstrosity anyways? you could probably clear about 30 cars if you hit a speed bump funny, and then die very very painlessly.

Graham said...

painlessly and quite spectacularly. I would consider it an honor to be blown to smitherenes in one of these besties.

Anonymous said...

Sweet!

The Phantom of the Kitchen.

Anonymous said...

mmmm, i saw jeremy clarkson test drive one of those things.