Good read for Top Gear fans

[imported_truzoom]

Bugatti Veyron

By Jeremy Clarkson of The Sunday Times

Utterly, stunningly, jaw droppingly brilliant



When you push a car past 180mph, the world starts to get awfully fizzy and a little bit frightening. When you go past 200mph it actually becomes blurred. Almost like you’re trapped in an early Queen pop video. At this sort of speed the tyres and the suspension are reacting to events that happened some time ago, and they have not finished reacting before they’re being asked to do something else. The result is a terrifying vibration that rattles your optical nerves, causing double vision. This is not good when you’re covering 300ft a second.

Happily, stopping distances become irrelevant because you won’t see the obstacle in the first place. By the time you know it was there, you’ll have gone through the windscreen, through the Pearly Gates and be half way across God’s breakfast table.



The rest of the article can be found at the link below:

http://driving.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,12529-1890873,00.html



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Thanks! -- Tort (moderator)

 

[TortoiseAWD]

The article is worth clicking on the link; very interesting (and there are a couple of pictures, too). Here's another snippet of Clarkson's take on the Bugatti:

I also cannot tell you how good this car is. I just don’t have the vocabulary. I just end up stammering and dribbling and talking wide-eyed nonsense. And everyone thinks I’m on drugs.

Tort

 

[drewski59]

Yeah, the Bugatti is definitely the supercar of supercars.



But, like the F40, supercars are far surpassed in performance after about a decade, so I just wonder what the limit will be for all this insane horsepower. I mean, just look at the upcoming M5/M6 and the M-B s63 AMG, a few years ago each of these would qualify as 'supercars', but now they're just more 'souped-up' performance cars.



The next decade in automobiles will be very interesting to witness, I think...

 

[tailwind]

"I just end up stammering and dribbling and talking wide-eyed nonsense. And everyone thinks I’m on drugs."

That's a pretty good description of most of the normal things Clarkson says.



Top Gear can be fun to watch because there's nowhere else to see supercars in action on TV, but the hosts, opinions, and overall commentary are ridiculous, and the humor they try so hard to involve just isn't there.

 

[Porkanbeans]

I agree. The video footage and review segments are amazing and very entertaining with all the races and stuff they have. I wouldn't change a thing about that. What irks me is the whole "let's have a pointless studio audience to make our viewers feel more at home" thing. I can't stand that short brown haired guy trying to "disagree" with Jeremy Clarkson, it's so fake it's funny.



Other than that, it's a killer show.