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Title: Bugatti Veyron
Post by: Stage1 on November 12, 2009, 03:02:11 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaQ9QKrrncY (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaQ9QKrrncY)

Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009,
A distracted owner of a Bugatti Veyron, one of the world's fastest production cars, accidently drove the French-built automobile into a Salt water lagoon in La Marque, Texas
Title: Re: Bugatti Veyron
Post by: CAP1 on November 12, 2009, 03:38:33 PM
we had a customer years ago. she was a crackhead.

well, she calls us, asking us to send our towing company out to get her car. said she was coming home from atlantic city, and drove into a big puddle.

 our tow driver was still laughing when he got the car to us.


 she drove it into the bay.  :rofl
Title: Re: Bugatti Veyron
Post by: Shuffler on November 12, 2009, 03:39:45 PM
That is not far from my Shop in Deer Park.
Title: Re: Bugatti Veyron
Post by: Ack-Ack on November 12, 2009, 04:48:30 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaQ9QKrrncY (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaQ9QKrrncY)

Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009,
A distracted owner of a Bugatti Veyron, one of the world's fastest production cars, accidently drove the French-built automobile into a Salt water lagoon in La Marque, Texas

Supposedly, the driver was talking on his cell phone and going at a high rate of speed when he became distracted by a pelican and lost control and drove it into the lagoon. 

Reminds me of one of the funny lines from the mechanic in Risky Business after Tom Cruise drove his daddy's Porsche into the lake, "Who's the U-Boat Commander?"

ack-ack
Title: Re: Bugatti Veyron
Post by: SLCR on November 13, 2009, 07:26:34 PM
Water landing in a $2 million dollar car...what a moron.

(http://galvestondailynews.com/photos/2009.November/1112_LOC_Soggy-Bugatti.jpg)
Title: Re: Bugatti Veyron
Post by: CAP1 on November 13, 2009, 11:09:14 PM
here's the video of him actually driving into the water.

BE FOREWARNED!! THERE IS LANGUAGE IN THIS VIDEO.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32yyvmlGOdo&feature=player_embedded
Title: Re: Bugatti Veyron
Post by: SirFrancis on November 14, 2009, 02:11:36 AM
 :lol
Title: Re: Bugatti Veyron
Post by: Nilsen on November 14, 2009, 02:28:08 AM
 :lol

Imagine what happens when the update-facebook-on-iphone generation gets their hands on the money for that kind of car.  :banana:
Title: Re: Bugatti Veyron
Post by: OOZ662 on November 14, 2009, 06:21:46 AM
"Pretty sure that's a Lambo, dude." Sheesh.

Imagine what happens when the update-facebook-on-iphone generation gets their hands on the money for that kind of car.  :banana:

We never will, because we'll be too busy buying all of the lesser still expensive things...like iPhones.
Title: Re: Bugatti Veyron
Post by: Nilsen on November 14, 2009, 06:32:27 AM
lol true.. unless apple starts to make cars that is
Title: Re: Bugatti Veyron
Post by: CAP1 on November 14, 2009, 07:34:06 AM
"Pretty sure that's a Lambo, dude." Sheesh.

We never will, because we'll be too busy buying all of the lesser still expensive things...like iPhones.

or something like this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEOGOR00OCU
Title: Re: Bugatti Veyron
Post by: OOZ662 on November 14, 2009, 07:38:13 AM
God, I hope not.
Title: Re: Bugatti Veyron
Post by: Nilsen on November 14, 2009, 07:47:05 AM
or something like this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEOGOR00OCU

lmao yes but it needs a big apple logo
Title: Re: Bugatti Veyron
Post by: Fulmar on November 14, 2009, 08:58:03 AM
here's the video of him actually driving into the water.

BE FOREWARNED!! THERE IS LANGUAGE IN THIS VIDEO.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32yyvmlGOdo&feature=player_embedded
There's a second video.  This one was a camera mounted just above the drivers head.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0d6KD7T20Y
Title: Re: Bugatti Veyron
Post by: john9001 on November 14, 2009, 09:42:46 AM
salt water+car= totaled
Title: Re: Bugatti Veyron
Post by: Nilsen on November 14, 2009, 10:01:51 AM
It is prolly still worth a million or more
Title: Re: Bugatti Veyron
Post by: Serenity on November 14, 2009, 02:57:56 PM
or something like this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEOGOR00OCU

Top speed: 20mph? Too slow for me.
Title: Re: Bugatti Veyron
Post by: EskimoJoe on November 14, 2009, 03:14:00 PM
iReal, get real  :rofl
Title: Re: Bugatti Veyron
Post by: Tango on November 14, 2009, 03:49:10 PM
here's the video of him actually driving into the water.

BE FOREWARNED!! THERE IS LANGUAGE IN THIS VIDEO.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32yyvmlGOdo&feature=player_embedded

Wheres the Pelican? I never saw one.
Title: Re: Bugatti Veyron
Post by: MORAY37 on November 14, 2009, 08:48:31 PM
Bugattis make pretty rainbows.   :banana:
Title: Re: Bugatti Veyron
Post by: sluggish on November 15, 2009, 03:59:06 PM
I don't care how fast it is, that car is smurfy.
Title: Re: Bugatti Veyron
Post by: Tango on November 15, 2009, 04:31:27 PM
Still didn't see the pelican he was blaming.
Title: Re: Bugatti Veyron
Post by: CAP1 on November 15, 2009, 04:42:51 PM
Still didn't see the pelican he was blaming.

it had already activated its cloaking device.
Title: Re: Bugatti Veyron
Post by: OOZ662 on November 15, 2009, 07:48:37 PM
I don't care how fast it is, that car is smurfy.

I think that about 90% of European cars. The 911 reminds me of an old Beetle that's been smoothed.
Title: Re: Bugatti Veyron
Post by: CAP1 on November 15, 2009, 08:10:39 PM
I think that about 90% of European cars. The 911 reminds me of an old Beetle that's been smoothed.

911 looks like a pregnant roller skate
Title: Re: Bugatti Veyron
Post by: OOZ662 on November 15, 2009, 08:11:35 PM
911 looks like a pregnant roller skate

A pregnant Mini Cooper? :D
Title: Re: Bugatti Veyron
Post by: Bodhi on November 15, 2009, 11:23:11 PM
salt water+car= totaled

bs, we pulled several aircraft out of the saltwater and rebuilt them.  They are far more prone to corrosion.
Title: Re: Bugatti Veyron
Post by: Die Hard on November 16, 2009, 09:31:40 AM
It's a major rebuild in any case. The interior would have to be replaced, and if the engine compressed water it would need a rebuild... I wonder what an engine rebuild on a Veyron would cost. Then the rest of the car would have to be pulled apart, cleaned and put back together. I don't know what's involved in doing all that but I bet it'll cost a lot of money; maybe more than the car is worth.
Title: Re: Bugatti Veyron
Post by: Shuffler on November 16, 2009, 10:29:43 AM
2 mil for a car.... he was a moron long before he ran into the water  :aok
Title: Re: Bugatti Veyron
Post by: SirFrancis on November 16, 2009, 04:19:00 PM
if you see the second vid, it looks like, that at 0.07 sec, the (2.) street sign is getting sucked under the car. Maybe this resulted in a blockading of rear wheels, which resulted into the ditch.

(http://img695.imageshack.us/img695/8379/123yh.jpg)

Maybe that was the pelican he meant to see... :D
SF
Title: Re: Bugatti Veyron
Post by: Shuffler on November 16, 2009, 05:00:54 PM
The vid I watched looked as if he dropped his phone. There is nothing on that stretch of road to make that happen.
Title: Re: Bugatti Veyron
Post by: Tango on November 16, 2009, 06:37:08 PM
Top Gear comes on tonight on BBCA and James is going to drag race a Bugatti Veyron agaisnt a Euro Fighter. I wonder if he will blame losing to a pelican?
Title: Re: Bugatti Veyron
Post by: OOZ662 on November 16, 2009, 06:40:39 PM
Top Gear comes on tonight on BBCA and James is going to drag race a Bugatti Veyron agaisnt a Euro Fighter. I wonder if he will blame losing to a pelican?

That was Richard Hammond and someone already linked the YouTube video of it earlier this week. "A new drag race" or something like that.
Title: Re: Bugatti Veyron
Post by: CAP1 on November 16, 2009, 06:48:46 PM
Top Gear comes on tonight on BBCA and James is going to drag race a Bugatti Veyron agaisnt a Euro Fighter. I wonder if he will blame losing to a pelican?


that episode is a re-run.....and it's fun to watch every time it comes on.


they seem to think that their eurofighter is the best in the world though........i think they've not yet met an f22 or an f18.  :D
Title: Re: Bugatti Veyron
Post by: CAP1 on November 16, 2009, 06:49:58 PM
That was Richard Hammond and someone already linked the YouTube video of it earlier this week. "A new drag race" or something like that.

there is an episode where james gets to drive it....to prove it can actually make it to 253mph. it did.  :airplane: :banana:
Title: Re: Bugatti Veyron
Post by: OOZ662 on November 16, 2009, 07:08:05 PM
there is an episode where james gets to drive it....to prove it can actually make it to 253mph. it did.  :airplane: :banana:

Yup. He drives it down a massive straightaway on a test track. Always found it funny they put Captain Slow in it to go fast.
Title: Re: Bugatti Veyron
Post by: CAP1 on November 16, 2009, 08:43:01 PM
Yup. He drives it down a massive straightaway on a test track. Always found it funny they put Captain Slow in it to go fast.
Well........he was due. I tthink the other two doofs already had turns in it.
Title: Re: Bugatti Veyron
Post by: OOZ662 on November 16, 2009, 11:39:22 PM
Hammond was last racing it against the Eurofighter. Clarkson was first when he raced them from Italy to England with Hammond and May flying a small plane.
Title: Re: Bugatti Veyron
Post by: RTHolmes on November 17, 2009, 09:46:07 AM
they seem to think that their eurofighter is the best in the world though........i think they've not yet met an f22 or an f18.  :D

probably the best 4th gen fighter out there, your own USAF boss Gen John P. Jumper certainly thinks so:
"I have flown all the air force jets. None was as good as the Eurofighter."

and yes they have met, and beat hornets. that was before the raptor though (more than 2x the cost of typhoon btw), better than the only 5th gen in service? no. then again we're not planning to declare war on the US anytime soon ...
Title: Re: Bugatti Veyron
Post by: OOZ662 on November 17, 2009, 05:42:44 PM
and yes they have met, and beat hornets.

That's difficult. (http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff255/OOZ662/rolleyes.gif)