That's not what I said. The Veyron SS is looking to be perfect. The previous model though didn't impress me so much as it didn't well and truly outdo everything else out there. Also it was way too heavy and I don't care what amount of money you pour into a cars suspension and chassis it can't make it anywhere near as good as making the car lighter would. So I really hope this car is lighter so that it can handle a bit better rather than just rely on long straights to make up time at a track.
It's odd.
I agree with every single word you've written, as normally I'm very much someone who prefers the old Lotus adage of "add lightness", making cars lighter, smaller and gaining more performance from less, and yet...
...the Veyron, to me, is simply staggering. It's a superbly engineered, very luxurious, quiet, comfortable, smooth-riding supercar that's supposedly useable every day and is no harder to drive than a Golf, and it manages to do over 250mph. When you step back and think about that, like really think about what it's capable of, it's quite amazing. Sure, you pay an arm, a leg, your first-born and a night with your wife for the directors of the company for it, but you can almost justify that price for the metal you're getting in return.
The line I always think of with the Veyron is at the end of the Autocar video below, where Chris Harris sums up by saying:
"...the Veyron stands above them all, because wheras they all have their small victories in small departments, the Veyron renders all of those slightly irrelevant because it does everything better than every other car. It's faster. It stops better. It goes round corners better"
(Incidentally, it's worth watching the vid anyway as it's a great little collection of supercars they've got there).
And now, they've made it
even quicker.
Of course, the paint job is pretty horrific, I'd much prefer something like the Pur Sang colour scheme, but they've made what was
already one of the fastest (and almost certainly most useable) production hypercars, now
the fastest. And you presume, still with an interior far more luxurious than it's competitors, and a factory warranty.
And, let's not forget - a legacy that will go down in history forever. Few will remember the two-bit competitors that line up against it every so often to steal the limelight, but the Veyron will join the McLaren F1 as one of those cars people will respect forever.
So yeah, a paradoxical car for me, the Veyron - it's a car I
should hate, but just can't. You can go on about passion and character all you like, but incredible engineering is probably more about passion than anything else. Concorde, the Golden Gate bridge... "just" works of amazing engineering. But truly great engineering transcends any cold, emotionless motive their might have been behind their completion.
! About the video... thats just stupid to say that the bugatti "goes around corners better."! The facts are that the cars is a bit "slow" around a track comparing to other cars! Dont see why he said that... maybe to get an extra free run from the owner
?!
