Wow! Here's a fancy-schmancy video of a Brit taking a Bugatti Veyron up to its top speed at the Volkwagen test track in Germany. "The tires only last 15 minutes at top speed but that's OK: the gas will only last for 12 minutes."
UPDATE: Here's another review of the Veyron by Jeremy Clarkson with a great little note about collisions at 200mph:
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.
From the same article:
From behind the wheel of a Veyron, France is the size of a small coconut. I cannot tell you how fast I crossed it the other day. Because you simply wouldn't believe me. 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.
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