What’s the point of owning a Bugatti Veyron? Surely not to take the kid to school although that would make him or her very, very popular... Perhaps it's for gaining bragging rights over your supercar-owning friends. Maybe because you are a collector or you simply want and can afford to buy one.
Well, in our books, having the fastest production car in the world is all about finding an empty road, pushing the right pedal to the metal and enjoy the feeling of having more than 1,000HP at your disposal.
On February 6, a video showing a Veyron in multiple 215-225 mph (345-360 km/h) runs was uploaded on YouTube. It soon became viral, attracting 1.2 million viewers.
The Bugatti maxes out at 253 mph (407 km/h), but the driver, who allegedly has four years of Veyron track experience including five 250 mph+ (400 km/h+) runs at VW’s own Ehra Lessien track, kept it in “handling” and not “top speed” mode due to the uneven surface of the road.
We are sure that everyone who watched the Bugatti video enjoyed it. Well, almost everyone: even though the person who uploaded the clip claims that the high-speed runs, which took place in late 2009, were made “south of the border”, Arizona police isn’t too happy. In fact, Arizona Department of Public spokesman Bart Graves labeled it “a criminal act”.
Unfortunately for Arizona law enforcers, there’s not much they can do since there is no way of knowing the exact location where the filming took place and the driver does not reveal his identity.
The real funny part is that, according to the person who uploaded the video, on the way back, the Veyron was stopped by the Arizona Highway Patrol while cruising at 80 mph (130 km/h). The officers didn’t want to give him a ticket, though; they simply wanted to take a close look at the car…
You can watch the Veyron doing its high-speed runs right after the jump.
Story References: Reuters via Autoblog
8 Comments:
what is music played in the video?
We saw him at our local car show here in Scottsdale last weekend. I have talked to him a few times about his cars.. Great guy. He had his laptop sitting on top of the Bugatti at the showing this video. This car has also been down gravel roads. He said he bought it to drive it, not garage it.
If was truly criminal, the cops(or more likely the FBI) could find a way of finding the driver.
1) There are so many distinguishing highway features shown throughout. I guarantee they can make the case that the car is driving within the US 100%. Unless we're saying the mexican governement has the same quality of roads and the exact same barrier and road paint/line laws.
2) How many bugatti's are there in the US? More so, how many buggatti drivers are there in the US that have the blue and silver version AND have the experience to drive the beast at full speed? I bet you this guy has posted tons of shit on his facebook, maybe some flickr. People who own bugattis tend to show them off a bit, unless your a reclusive billionaire or a straight biaaaatch.
So when the law enforcement suggest they can't do anything about it, what they really mean is that they don't care enough to pursue the case or more so, the fines that could be placed on the person do not outweigh the resources required to track him down.
Shit, a rookie out of Quantico could probably track this guy down in a week, in his/her spare time.
Another example that if the CIA ain't on it, nothing gets done in America.
It's from a Homeworld PC video game, title is Paul Ruskay - Turanic Battle Music. Here's a link to YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTKakINXjl8
If they want to find him, the can just go to the Pavillions car show. He is there often. Even the police that roam around during the show were watching the video.
Thank you!
Some people should know better .... Veyron pilot and Walter Röhrl, and too many automotive review drivers, test driving vehicles at high speeds.
Minimum safety equipment for hi-speed runs is an 'SA' rated safety helmet. It's just considerate, common sense.
Really nothing interesting on this video, this man has apparently the money to get a Veyron, but not enough to get one or two GoProHD ??
(can't believe the guy trying to stabilize from the passenger seat, so cheap)
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