It's been a long winter, but the Switzer P800 Russian test-pilots are back in business. Their first match-up? A million-dollar, one-thousand-plus-horsepower Bugatti Veyron supercar.
Yesterday, November 11, 2009 at 3pm a man yet to be identified drove his $2 million dollar Bugatti Veyron into a saltwater lagoon (Galveston County, Texas) when apparently a low-flying pelican distracted him as he traveled north on Interstate 45 just south of the hurricane levee near Omega Bay.
The 2010 Max Cooper Gumball 3000 second last stop on the tour arrived at 7pm (EST) in Toronto, Ontario. The cars were in Montreal, Quebec this morning, went to the Shannonville Track then ended here in ultra trendy area called Yorkville in Toronto.
In the first couple photos you can see rapper Xzibit who was first to arrive (but remember kids this was not a race)!! Xzibit has been crusing the 2010 Gumball 3000 in a Design 11 modified Porsche Cayenne Turbo which is right hand drive to boot!
Switzer keeps upping the ante of what is possible with the Nissan GTR. You though they'd stop at 800 daily driven horsepower. Wrong. Meet the R1K kit, giving you 1000hp and enough thrust to beat a Veyron to the next stop light. Yes, we said "beat."
What do rich sheikhs do with their money? Buy an expensive car and customize it with gold, chrome and tuning. Pictures of sick cars spotted on dubai's roads.
The Bugatti Veyron had been un-seated as the fastest car in the world, and is coming to the end of it's production cycle. We'd say it's perfectly logical to build a 1,200hp special edition that plants it firmly back at the top of hierarchy.
The Texas Mile is the new Bonneville, blending top speed with 1/4 mile acceleration. Think you need a turbo Gallardo or a 997 Turbo to run it? Think again. You just need an 800hp Volkswagen.
There is much more involved in owning an expensive luxury sports car than just the price. The cost of insurance also plays a big part in how much you pay to own the car. Insurance providers consider such aspects as the cost of repairs, safety rating, risk of theft, safety features, and performance features, in how they set their premiums
The Nissan GT-R is an amazing machine any way you look at it. After all, this is a car that can hold its own against the venerable Ferrari F430 Scuderia. With 480 hp and 430 lb-ft of torque it can reach 60 mph from a standstill in 3.2 seconds and tops out just shy of 200 mph. This all sounds really impressive until you put it side-by-side with the Bugatti Veyron.
It used to be, if you ordered a sports car with an automatic transmission, you were an gutless moron. But if you drive a Switzer P800 997 Turbo Tiptronic that's a fast as a Veyron, you are far from gutless.
Porsche is poised to burst Bugatti\342\200\231s bubble when it rolls out the fastest road car in the world in 2009 \342\200\224 and Autocar magazine has revealed how it expects it to look. This radical supercar is expected to be dubbed GT1, and will be a 950hp, road-legal version of Porsche\342\200\231s future Le Mans challenger. According to insiders, the target top speed is 254mph \342\200\224 a crucial 2mph faster than the claimed top speed of the 987hp Bugatti Veyron.
Bugatti gave Top Gear the Veyron and use of the Ehra Lessien test track to film a top speed run. In the video, James May drives the world’s fastest production car to an incredible 407 kmh (253mph.) This gets our vote for the best exotic car video of the year so far. Superb job by the Top Gear editors; even the Star Wars theme music fits perfectly.
The 2011 Hulme CanAm is an attempt to put F1 performance onto public roads. Hulme Supercars Ltd, based in New Zealand, will only produce 20 cars per year. With 600hp and a curb weight of only 2100lbs, it will no doubt bring plenty of F1-like excitement wherever it lands.
The crashed Veyron appears to have created a lovely large swath in a potential wheat field clearing some room for another field of dreams movie. By the looks these photos and the Veyron's resting spot the car spun out and flew in reverse into the field.
Here are just a very small sample of the hundreds of photos I took at the 2009 Monterey Car Week in California. In my first day, I saw a total of 5 Enzo Ferrari's, 3 Bugatti Veyrons, a white Carrera GT, Porsche 959, a dozen Phantom's and Drophead Phantoms, Ferrari F40, F50 and a Saleen S7.
3 Custom Bugatti Veyrons at the 2009 Dubai Motor Show. Bugatti Veyron Nocturne, Bugatti Grand Sport Soleil de Nuit, Bugatti Veyron Sang D'argent Photos & Details.
Top Gear: Season 11, Episode 6 - This episode will air Sunday July 27, 2008
THREE Bugatti Veyrons driving in SYNC! No one’s seen this before. And one of them is a limited edition chrome Bugatti Veyron Pur Sang, 1 of only 5 in the world!! Beyond motor shows and home made night spotting videos from Dubai, no one’s seen one of these before, either.
New rumors circulating over the past couple days now strongly suggest that the new Bugatti Sedan which will should be unveiled at the Frankfurt Motor Show will be called the Bugatti Bordeaux. Here are some more concept photos which do not represent past rumours of a 4 door sedan, nor does do the tail lights look like the Bugatti Bordeaux Teaser Picture released at a private Bugatti launch party.
The annual ARAB run in Dubai. 2nd picture set from the Autodrome event. Bugatti Veyron, Lamborghini Murcielago, Roadster, LP640, Ferrari F50, F430, 612, 575,BMW M6 Lumma...more..
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