First Bugatti Veyron crash
03-05-07, 08:21 PM
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necessarily buy happiness. There have been quite a few tragedies
involving people taking their exotics too far.
The laws of physics do not care what your net worth is.
03-05-07, 08:35 PM
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At the end of the day, its a car. Cars are made to be driven, thats what he was doing. A friends dad of mine has a F430 that he drives daily, he has a SUV when he needs to carry things/people but he dries his Ferrari as a daily driver, is he stupid too? Shoot if I spend 1.3 million on a car you better belive that I'm gonna drive it.
03-05-07, 08:43 PM
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This is definitly around the top of 'The dumbest things i've read on CL' list of mine.
At the end of the day, its a car. Cars are made to be driven, thats what he was doing. A friends dad of mine has a F430 that he drives daily, he has a SUV when he needs to carry things/people but he dries his Ferrari as a daily driver, is he stupid too? Shoot if I spend 1.3 million on a car you better belive that I'm gonna drive it.
At the end of the day, its a car. Cars are made to be driven, thats what he was doing. A friends dad of mine has a F430 that he drives daily, he has a SUV when he needs to carry things/people but he dries his Ferrari as a daily driver, is he stupid too? Shoot if I spend 1.3 million on a car you better belive that I'm gonna drive it.
1.4 million car. I've absolutely NO problem saying those should
be driven in the street.
A car like this is better in a track. Just my opinion.
03-05-07, 08:49 PM
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03-06-07, 12:21 AM
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This is definitly around the top of 'The dumbest things i've read on CL' list of mine.
At the end of the day, its a car. Cars are made to be driven, thats what he was doing. A friends dad of mine has a F430 that he drives daily, he has a SUV when he needs to carry things/people but he dries his Ferrari as a daily driver, is he stupid too? Shoot if I spend 1.3 million on a car you better belive that I'm gonna drive it.
At the end of the day, its a car. Cars are made to be driven, thats what he was doing. A friends dad of mine has a F430 that he drives daily, he has a SUV when he needs to carry things/people but he dries his Ferrari as a daily driver, is he stupid too? Shoot if I spend 1.3 million on a car you better belive that I'm gonna drive it.
When it comes down to it, a car is a car. Even if I had a 10 billion dollar sports car, I'll still drive it on the street given that I'll more than likely go to the track with it once in a blue moon.
03-06-07, 09:56 AM
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This is definitly around the top of 'The dumbest things i've read on CL' list of mine.
At the end of the day, its a car. Cars are made to be driven, thats what he was doing. A friends dad of mine has a F430 that he drives daily, he has a SUV when he needs to carry things/people but he dries his Ferrari as a daily driver, is he stupid too? Shoot if I spend 1.3 million on a car you better belive that I'm gonna drive it.
At the end of the day, its a car. Cars are made to be driven, thats what he was doing. A friends dad of mine has a F430 that he drives daily, he has a SUV when he needs to carry things/people but he dries his Ferrari as a daily driver, is he stupid too? Shoot if I spend 1.3 million on a car you better belive that I'm gonna drive it.
03-06-07, 11:15 AM
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I know plenty people who drive exotics as daily drivers come to LA. pissst... a neighbor a few blocks up the hill from me (somewhere) freakin drives a huge RR phantom every single day and its always dirty, annoys the crap out of me. Some movie business exec person I've been told. But why not, why spend all that money on a car and never use it what a waste life is too short.
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Should've spend another mill to rice it up so he can roll lookin tight, now dude stuck drivin around in some inferior ride(Gallardo/F430) while he waits another year or so to get another one(if they still make them).
03-06-07, 09:01 PM
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Bugatti supercar is left a wreck
By NEIL SYSON,
ANTHONY FRANCE
and JAMIE PYATT
March 06, 2007
OH Buga! A supercar worth £830,000 is loaded on to a truck after the world’s costliest road crash.
The sleek Bugatti Veyron — one of only a dozen in the UK — was wrecked in a smash in pouring rain.
Yesterday insurance assessors began working out whether the hand-built French motor was repairable — or the most exclusive write-off on the planet.
A police source said it was thought the Veyron — capable of 253mph — was doing around 100mph when it slewed out of control.
It spun three times, hitting a Vauxhall Astra with a seven-months pregnant woman inside, before smashing into trees up a 3ft bank.
The woman was taken to hospital for a check-up but was alright.
The Bugatti driver, who was with a younger male passenger, was reported by police for driving without due care and attention.
The smash happened shortly after 3pm on Sunday on a 40mph stretch of the B375 near Chertsey, Surrey, a known crash blackspot.
It is understood the wrecked car was taken away by the SAME truck driver who had delivered it to the owner just a week earlier.
One witness who took our exclusive photos said: “It was clearly an almighty bang. Bits of Bugatti were strewn all over the road.
“The front had been virtually ripped off, every panel was damaged and the front wheels were pointing in opposite directions.”
The witness said the “fed-up” driver and passenger were staring at the Bugatti when a third man drove up in a 4x4 and started raging at them. The Bugatti is owned by a businessman in his 40s who runs a car hire and management company with his brothers.
Outside their home yesterday a man claimed he had rented it to the driver for £20,000 a day and that it was bought for £925,000 — more than the list price. Nick Lancaster, Chief Executive of dealers HR Owen which sold the motor, said: “It is the first Veyron I have heard of being damaged. We cannot say yet whether it is written off or not.”
The Veyron, built at the Bugatti Automobiles company in Molsheim, Alsace, boasts almost as much power as an F1 car. A Bugatti spokesman said: “If it can be repaired, it will be quickly and efficiently. The owner will be looking at a substantial bill.”
ANTHONY FRANCE
and JAMIE PYATT
March 06, 2007
OH Buga! A supercar worth £830,000 is loaded on to a truck after the world’s costliest road crash.
The sleek Bugatti Veyron — one of only a dozen in the UK — was wrecked in a smash in pouring rain.
Yesterday insurance assessors began working out whether the hand-built French motor was repairable — or the most exclusive write-off on the planet.
A police source said it was thought the Veyron — capable of 253mph — was doing around 100mph when it slewed out of control.
It spun three times, hitting a Vauxhall Astra with a seven-months pregnant woman inside, before smashing into trees up a 3ft bank.
The woman was taken to hospital for a check-up but was alright.
The Bugatti driver, who was with a younger male passenger, was reported by police for driving without due care and attention.
The smash happened shortly after 3pm on Sunday on a 40mph stretch of the B375 near Chertsey, Surrey, a known crash blackspot.
It is understood the wrecked car was taken away by the SAME truck driver who had delivered it to the owner just a week earlier.
One witness who took our exclusive photos said: “It was clearly an almighty bang. Bits of Bugatti were strewn all over the road.
“The front had been virtually ripped off, every panel was damaged and the front wheels were pointing in opposite directions.”
The witness said the “fed-up” driver and passenger were staring at the Bugatti when a third man drove up in a 4x4 and started raging at them. The Bugatti is owned by a businessman in his 40s who runs a car hire and management company with his brothers.
Outside their home yesterday a man claimed he had rented it to the driver for £20,000 a day and that it was bought for £925,000 — more than the list price. Nick Lancaster, Chief Executive of dealers HR Owen which sold the motor, said: “It is the first Veyron I have heard of being damaged. We cannot say yet whether it is written off or not.”
The Veyron, built at the Bugatti Automobiles company in Molsheim, Alsace, boasts almost as much power as an F1 car. A Bugatti spokesman said: “If it can be repaired, it will be quickly and efficiently. The owner will be looking at a substantial bill.”
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