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Title: Who owns Bugatti?
Post by: SFRT - Frenchy on August 24, 2003, 01:05:43 PM

http://autos.msn.com/as/pebblebeach2003/article.aspx?xml=veyron

Article seems to suggest the Germans.

Title: Who owns Bugatti?
Post by: Frogm4n on August 24, 2003, 01:59:25 PM

volkswagon bought the name out a couple years ago or so. for only 1million euro,( about 1.3 million US and riseing) you too can own a 1000hp car.

Title: Who owns Bugatti?
Post by: Staga on August 24, 2003, 02:06:21 PM

Yep, VW owns the rights for that brand.

Title: Who owns Bugatti?
Post by: funkedup on August 24, 2003, 02:21:05 PM

I was sitting right where he spun it.  He actually spun in T1 at about 150mph and spun all the way down to T2 (about 400m!).  Very lucky not to have totalled it.  Looks like they have some serious handling development to do yet.  :)

Title: Who owns Bugatti?
Post by: Gadfly on August 24, 2003, 02:45:56 PM

Given that they had unlimited money and design resources, as well as the tradion of Bugatti to draw from, that is one ugly piece of ****.

Title: Who owns Bugatti?
Post by: SFRT - Frenchy on August 24, 2003, 03:32:59 PM

it has the look of the EB10 and the grid of the antiques:cool:
I like the thing.

Title: Who owns Bugatti?
Post by: Mark Luper on August 24, 2003, 09:02:14 PM

Yup...it's ugly. None of the grace and delicacy of the original.

Title: Who owns Bugatti?
Post by: Animal on August 24, 2003, 09:44:11 PM

Screw delicacy when you can do 180mph in 14 seconds. Onlookers will only see a blur.

Title: Who owns Bugatti?
Post by: type_char on August 24, 2003, 09:49:06 PM

Ferrari pwnz joor car!

Title: Who owns Bugatti?
Post by: Mark Luper on August 24, 2003, 10:12:05 PM

Quote

Originally posted by Animal
Screw delicacy when you can do 180mph in 14 seconds. Onlookers will only see a blur.

I can't imagine there would be too many opportunities to do 180 even if in only 14 secs. I prefer sublety to a sledge hammer most of the time. The new car has no "class" in my humble estimation.

Different strokes for different folks I guess :)

Title: Who owns Bugatti?
Post by: funkedup on August 25, 2003, 02:34:46 AM

Yeah the new one couldn't touch the classics that were racing at the track.  I think there were 34 starters in the Bugatti race.  On most of them the block and heads are machined from billet, really beautiful stuff.  By far the most modern sounding cars of that era.  They could really rev, and smooooooooooth too.

Title: Who owns Bugatti?
Post by: Devourer on August 25, 2003, 02:47:46 AM

what the world needs is a succesor to the Mclaren f-1

Title: Who owns Bugatti?
Post by: Shark88 on August 25, 2003, 11:04:13 AM

the bugatti veryon 16.4 has a top speed of 250!!  it can accelerate from 0 to 185 in 12 seconds and 0-60 in 3.1 seconds!!  but it costs 1.5 million


check out the official web site:

http://www.bugatti-cars.de/bugatti/index.html (http://www.bugatti-cars.de/bugatti/index.html)

Title: Who owns Bugatti?
Post by: Skuzzy on August 25, 2003, 11:12:50 AM

Volkswagen owns Bugatti.  The EB16 engine is a joining of 2 W-8 Volkswagen engine designs.

Title: Who owns Bugatti?
Post by: SKurj on August 25, 2003, 03:22:17 PM

Bugatti will ship your car  (the veryon of course) to Dubai, where they will also close a straight stretch of road 100km long...  if you wish...  Top speed I believe is GUARANTEED...



SKurj