Bugatti: 1,001 horsepower, $1.24 million

[Gunit_Sangh]

Just what we need:

NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Volkswagen's latest product probably won't be very good on gas and it has a rather high price tag. But that hasn't stopped a handful of people from putting down payments on the car before production started earlier this month.

Each Bugatti Veyron 16.4 will cost an estimated $1.24 million, according to media reports. For that, buyers will get an all-wheel-drive two-seat sports car with a lightweight carbon-fiber body and 16-cylinder engine capable of producing 1,001 horsepower.

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In 2003, according to Automotive News, the car still suffered from two major problems: The enormous engine tended to overheat and the car, capable of top a speed of well in excess of 200 miles per hour, was unstable at high speeds. Several reports have placed the car's top speed at about 250 miles per hour.

Hey Georgie ... I think these people will need a tax cut so they can buy this car!

Rest of story
http://www.cnn.com/2005/AUTOS/funonwheels/09/16/bugatti_veyron/index.html

[maxsolomon]

1. aww, jeez. why is VW bothering with this shite?

they decide NOT to build a new microbus, despite overwhelmingly positive reaction to the prototype, then they trot out the 50k toureg, and the 65k phaeton, WHICH NO ONE NEEDS.

now this.

volk = people, not rap stars & ceos. back to your roots!

edit: i'm guessing on those prices. but they're close.

[kysrsoze]

3. Believe it or not, the Phaeton goes up to 90K for the W12.

It starts at 70K. Microbus would have been cool and sold a ton.

[maxsolomon]

4. wow. i underestimated.

i'm not known for that.

a 30k diesel awd microbus would have been the shiznit.

speaking as a former 1978 2000cc porsche engine microbus driver. that thing could go 80mph all day before rust ate it. and the engine blew.

[seemunkee]

2. Ettore must be spinning in his grave

He made Beautiful cars, that thing is ugly