Too bad it wasn’t the Hot Wheels version!
Since the Hot Wheels version of the Bugatti Veryon is the only one that any of us will probably own, I thought this little piece on someone who owns a real one might be of interest – especially since he destroyed it! Here’s the picture and text from AUTOBLOG.COM:
We only know of one other time a Bugatti Veyron has been wrecked, and that was during the car’s development when a prototype was destroyed doing a high-speed test. There there was the time a preproduction Veyron performed a very public spin-out at Mazda’s Laguna Seca Raceway during the Monterey Historics. These incidents actually delayed the debut of the production car, though perhaps it should have stayed in the oven a bit longer if its designers were worried about stability at speed.
Reports this morning are flooding in of the first known wreck of a Bugatti Veyron on public roads, and there are pictures to prove it. Very little is known about the circumstances expect that the crash occurred in the U.K. and was apparently the result of hydroplaning. For a car with an MSRP well over a million bucks, we assumed that when hydroplaning is detected the car would immediately enter hovercraft mode, but we now know that’s not the case.
We should end this post with that greatest of car wreck jokes: “Think that’ll buff out?” No. No it won’t.
[via autoblog.com]
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