Bugatti Veyron Review
March 17, 2008 by Anthony Crawford
I truly wish that every car enthusiast in the world could have just one run in the Veyron, as it’s impossible to describe how fast this car accelerates without resorting to a barrage of hard core expletives and even then, it wouldn’t be accurate.
We need to get some car-to-car footage, so Julius returns to the passenger seat and Alborz along with Paul and Karl, set things up in our chase car – the Peugeot 307 diesel powered wagon.
We are heading up into the mountains behind Molshiem and pass through a beautiful little Alsatian town complete with cobblestones and age-old cottages.
The Veyron, with Xenon’s blazing is a site to behold. School kids and adults alike, are firing off their digital cameras like no tomorrow. It’s a pity I can’t see their faces but peddling this thing through one thousand year old streets just wide enough for a horse and cart, requires razor sharp focus.
Finally, we break through onto some twisty mountain roads as we head towards a small ski village. Paul is doing a commendable job with the 307 as Karl attempts to shoot the Veyron with a view to showing speed through the bends.
The sophisticated all-wheel-drive system is making light work of wet roads and thankfully my heart rate has dropped significantly, as I settle into gearshifts via paddles.
The roads are still narrow and while I’m trying to stay on my side of the bitumen, I have no intention of dropping one of these 10,000-euro wheels (remember, that’s each corner) off the edge.
At these more civilised speeds the driving is effortless and luxury car comfortable. Volkswagen and the supremely talented Bugatti engineers at Mosheim, who build these cars, have achieved nothing less than the automotive Holy Grail.
Things must have gone well enough for Car Advice today, as we near the Bugatti gates, Julius asks me to pull over and hand my driver’s seat over to one of the other guys. Everyone is going to get a steer in the world’s fastest car and the world has just become a better place!
I believe that it’s luxurious like a Maybach and the automated seven-speed makes possible everyone to drive it. In a world full of expensive caprices you may have a wild dream with Bugatti Veyron 16.4.
Those photos are amazing. thank you for them. I had never seen the veyron so close in some places, like the back of the bucket or the pedals, and i had searched a lot. thank you
Good onya boys! :) Nice website you’ve got here…so how do you think the Merc SL 55 driver (that wanted to take on the Veyron) must’av felt when VW spooled up and boosted into the next country?
Now, any chance of a ‘Veyron Title Battle’ :)
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Regarding the TGV it set the train speed record at 515km/h some years ago. It has since broken it’s own record, but regularly travels between 300 and 400km/h. The Veyron drinks the whole tank in less than 20mins on speed runs, but I take your point. ;-) It’s damn fast and is just as happy dawdling down to the corner shop.
I’d be over the moon for a “ride” in a Lambo let alone driving a Veyron. Lucky buggers and thanks for the great review.
Fascinating article and a truely peerless car. It’s close to perfection with the letdown being the interior. Not so much retro as dated. Why make a modern technological wonder and give it a 50s look inside??!
its a god dam looking car and a fast beuty
Who is this other AW. WTH using my username.
I will never EVER be able to describe how much I love that car.
I am willing to have my life cut short for 3 years just to get a taste of this damn thing!!!
Hello my good guys,
I think about how would you feel and write if you could drive my Bugatti Linea Vincero Mansory. Your review is ok, thanks for normal people that you can give them that idea of feelings. Good night my dear fellow, good night…
thank’s for any information
I think other than sheer fascination with this thing, I hope that one day Australia with our own imagination, can build a machine like this. Once we get over our John Simpleton mindset and lack of motivation to succed as a country not just as individuals then we will be on the right path, we do not have the capability now but we do have the capability to gain that capability. Most of us also dont have the capability to start a car company but those who do in this country also just cant be bothered it seems, this is the naive, take-it-for-granted mindset that we can just continue this western way of life without making a meainingful contribution to sustaining and improving it, other than silly little under-done efforts. To start with we should actually get a few Veyrons into Australia.
Is this the only car to have gotten six starts by CA