Aquaplaned Veyron!
Posted on 5th March, 2007 by Warren M
Filed in Bugatti | 27 Comments
Is this the first post-production Veyron to be damaged on a public road? This car was spotted near Shepperton (UK), after the owner had apparently lost control while aquaplaning.
Oh dear…
1. 5th March, 2007 at 11:28 by Aniator
so sad….
its a shame to see such a nice car damaged. its inevitable. What is remarkable is that this first crash is not due to speeding, but to poor driving.
2. 5th March, 2007 at 11:52 by Nick
Guess what people, the owner crashed the most expensive road legal car in the world and lost a lot of money, but he/she would have lost a whole lot more if volkswagen would have decided to sell the car for the amount it costs them to build one, and that’s $5000000, but they sell the Bugatti veyrons for %1.4 million. Now thats like selling a concord at a huge loss, basically its because Volkswagen did not have plans of selling the car when they started building it,THEY BUILD THE CAR AS A TECHNICAL EXERCISE FOR THE ENGINEERS!
3. 5th March, 2007 at 12:12 by Nick
At least, thats what Jeremy Clarkson would have said about it, if you know who i am talking about germany!! (:P
4. 5th March, 2007 at 12:46 by buras
every body makes mistakes (it is a mistake)
5. 5th March, 2007 at 12:56 by Manden
True, but I suppose some mistakes are more costly than others.
I bet the owner’s feeling like crap today lol.
6. 5th March, 2007 at 14:18 by Don Ho
I’m not old enough to drive, but if I was, I’d love one of those.
7. 6th March, 2007 at 03:01 by Jordan
The car alone is an amazing feat, being able to go as fast as it does. I would never want one though. Well, Id never want one to drive. I would bve too afraid to do something like this, and I’m sure that guy hates himself for crashing it…
8. 6th March, 2007 at 03:46 by Lei Mon
Sad.. but think of the bright side. The driver must be loaded with cash anyways if he could afford one of these. He/she can just buy another one and donate this one back to the company. So in the end, he/she lucky he/she didn’t get hurt from the crash.
9. 6th March, 2007 at 04:20 by TONY
Rich driver, poor car.
10. 6th March, 2007 at 06:17 by mohammad
its a mistake but cost him the car i dont think it will return on the road unless he have a good insurance policy :)
11. 6th March, 2007 at 07:47 by Romp
Not bad.You can find out Germany`a car is too easy to drive.Such great car should be repaired at once.Driving like light on road.
12. 6th March, 2007 at 08:55 by Colm
The “costs $5,000,000 to build each one” is a bit of a chimera - the total development cost of the project divided by the number of cars sold is indeed much higher than the purchase cost of the car, but VAG are hoping to reap benefits from the development effort across their whole range. The marginal production cost of each car (ie: how much it costs them to build a new one, excluding all the money they’ve already spent on R&D) is less than the purchase cost - they do actually make a profit on each one sold.
13. 6th March, 2007 at 09:17 by Christian S
No amount of advertising could promote VW in the same way that the Veyron has.
14. 6th March, 2007 at 12:57 by 55
should have worn a floresenant jacket
15. 6th March, 2007 at 13:04 by Concrete Hippo
I wonder which overpaid Premiership footballer pranged that one?
:o)
16. 6th March, 2007 at 14:05 by john
Lee Hughes (West Brom footballer) oh thats right cant be him, hes still inside for dangerous driving :)
17. 6th March, 2007 at 15:31 by AfricaDude
VW or whoever it was refused to let the Stig drive this thing on Top Gear!! some say he can run as fast as a dog, some say he doesn’t have a birthday. all we know is that he would never crash the Veyron!!
18. 6th March, 2007 at 15:39 by Dave Spikey
LOL @ that!
19. 6th March, 2007 at 21:47 by Benjamin Dover
The idiot who crashed it, was driving 100MPH in the weather you see in the photos. The car spun around 3 times, hit another car (with a 7 month pregnant woman in it), then went up an embankment and hit a tree.
20. 6th March, 2007 at 22:12 by Gordon Skanker
Jeez, really? It’s scary to think that anyone (with the money) could just buy one. A teenager with a brand new license. Insane.
21. 7th March, 2007 at 19:15 by SalF
At least somebody took away that awefull toiletseat that is mounted on the front of the car… maybe using it for the purpose it was designed for: sit on it and take a cr…..
22. 8th March, 2007 at 03:22 by cantdrive
the owner wasn’t driving it. It was the owners’ brother who crashed it!
23. 8th March, 2007 at 10:24 by Warren M
Yeah, I read that it was the owners brother too. Apparently, he came to the scene of the accident and shouted ‘I’ll deal with you when we get home!’
Oh dear…
24. 14th March, 2007 at 20:20 by patrick
Heheh .. Smart :P
25. 17th March, 2007 at 14:52 by Shetland16
Nah the guy driving the Bugatti was with a younger male passenger and is a businessman in his 40’s who runs a rental car company with his brothers. But the funny thing is the car was taken away by the same truck driver who had delivered it to the owner just a week earlier. ha…. lol
26. 19th March, 2007 at 14:49 by Hugh H.
this car is alright but after about my 5th month driving it it gets kinda old because u start getting chased by money hungry women but in any case the car is a lot of fun to drive if u can find an abandoned road haha and this dude is and idot its hard to crash these things seeing how they have such great handling.
27. 1st December, 2007 at 18:32 by Luc H.
Well it ought to happen one time!!
It really is an oustanding piece of engineering! People should be trained to be allowed to drive a car with this enormous kind of power.