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Topic: Bugatti Chiron , 1,500 HP, 261mph for $3 million !
Posted By: 8.1 Van on 03/23/17 05:23pm

2017 Bugatti Chiron preview

They sold 200 already and expect to sell 500 with 30% going to the US.


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* This post was edited 03/23/17 05:29pm by 8.1 Van *

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Posted By: Tyler0215 on 03/24/17 01:40pm

Man, I could make it to the hardware store in 2.1 seconds.I want one!

Posted By: Fizz on 03/24/17 01:46pm

That is one ugly car, no matter how well it performs

Posted By: FlatBroke on 03/24/17 02:03pm

Never did like the grills.


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Posted By: Cloud Dancer on 03/24/17 03:04pm

Imagine what I nice motorcoach plus toad I could buy for that much money.
For consideration would be a million dollar Foretravel and a $130K Land Rover.

* This post was edited 03/24/17 03:10pm by Cloud Dancer *

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Posted By: RV-1/2n-FUN on 03/28/17 06:32pm

Not for me, thank you. For a more reasonable price I would prefer a new Ford GT. For an absurd price I would prefer a Koenigsegg One:1 or his Agera R

http://www.topspeed.com/cars/koenigsegg-one-1/ke4795.html

Posted By: Cloud Dancer on 03/28/17 07:47pm

I was only mentioning a coach and a toad. The rest of the money I would use for filling my 10-car garage, and my boathouse...[emoticon]

Posted By: 4x4ord on 03/29/17 12:41am

I can't imagine being willing to blow 3 million on a car but if I was going to do it, that might very well be the car I would choose... not that color though.

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Posted By: Lessmore on 03/29/17 02:49pm

Last car I would want, the Bugatti. I would much prefer...as far as a sportscar goes either a new Porsche 911 Carrera for 102K CAD or a new Corvette Z06 for 93K CAD.

I had to look both prices up on the internet as I'm not really in the market for a supercar.

Till my ship comes in, I will make do with my 11 year old Buick 6 passenger sedan...has the wonderful and legendary Buick 90 degree, 3.8 V6...or our newer car, a 2015 Chevy Impala with it's 3.6 liter, DOHC, 60 degree V6...305 hp. The Impala is not like the old style Impala, but the newer...Opel designed...version.

For an admittedly old guy...these two cars have enough zip for me...geez...I'm sounding like my father did...30 years ago. [emoticon]

Posted By: colliehauler on 03/29/17 03:53pm

Cloud Dancer wrote:

I was only mentioning a coach and a toad. The rest of the money I would use for filling my 10-car garage, and my boathouse...[emoticon]
I'm with you on that heck sells tax alone in KS would be $270,000. I could not even imagine what insurance would be. But if you have 3 million in disposable income that probably is not a concern.

Just think you could buy 42 new 70k trucks and still have money left over.

Posted By: 8.1 Van on 03/29/17 04:05pm

Mark Zuckerberg could buy a dozen with what he made just today.

Posted By: camperforlife on 04/01/17 10:25pm

Modern day Batmobile.

Posted By: RobertRyan on 04/03/17 03:13am

Nice VW( well they are owned by VW)[emoticon]

Posted By: Effy on 04/05/17 05:41am

Looks like a weird car getting eaten by a Nissan Z.

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Posted By: RayJayco on 04/05/17 09:22am

BBC Top Gear had it on last week. They said that it can empty it's fuel tank (100 liters) in 9 minutes at top speed, however they didn't have the 2nd key needed to unleash it's full potential...
Michelin had to engineer and produce tires just for the car. (I would have thought a set of Chinese ST's would be fine... [emoticon] )

I wonder if anyone knows the towing capacity?

Just found the summary of the show

Inquiring minds want to know...

Posted By: 8.1 Van on 04/05/17 03:55pm

I bet the back tires are about the same size as the Pirelli P Zero Nero P405/25ZR24 .

Posted By: myredracer on 04/07/17 10:22am

OMG, I think I am going to upchuck... It may be a technological marvel, but who would ever design something so frickin' fugly?

And the name? Chiron (and not Chyron, a message that scrolls across the bottom of a TV image) was a Greek mythological figure who was wounded by Hercules and then invented medicine to heal himself. Stupid name to go with a stupid car... [emoticon]

The side view looks even worse. Ettore Bugatti must be turning in his grave.

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Posted By: wilber1 on 04/07/17 11:24am

Or for less than 80K you can have one of these. It seats five, has four doors and a big trunk.

Fastest Sedan at the Nurburgring

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Posted By: atreis on 04/08/17 05:44am

But how much can it tow?

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Posted By: 8.1 Van on 04/08/17 09:39am

wilber1 wrote:

Or for less than 80K you can have one of these. It seats five, has four doors and a big trunk.

Fastest Sedan at the Nurburgring

Or something much faster :
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Posted By: myredracer on 04/08/17 12:53pm

wilber1 wrote:



Fastest Sedan at the Nurburgring


Actually, the fastest sedan at the legendary 'Ring happened a long time ago!

In 1961 a Fiat Abarth 850 TC (similar to 1st pic) won the 500 km race in their class and in '62 they added "nurburgring" badging in honor of their win. These cars were based on a Fiat 600 sedan and the 850 TC produced a whopping 55 HP (up from stock 24.5 HP). Am just restoring one and building it to '62 specs except will have a later 90 HP engine. By 1973 (when Abarth ceased production), these car were purpose-built, highly-developed race cars with huge fenders & wide slicks, fuel injection (Europe only), coil-over suspension, fiberglass body panels and all sorts of trick stuff (by '70s standards) and blew away the competition including larger displacement Porches, BMWs & Alfas. Couldn't find an early 60s photo of a race with Abarths at Nurburgring but the b&w photo is Zandvoort in the Netherlands in '65.

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