For $2.1 million, Bugatti Veyron trounces Mercedes McLaren

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For $2.1 million, Bugatti Veyron trounces Mercedes McLaren

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Is the recession over for you? Are you flush with some spare cash? Perhaps you should consider the bragging rights if you order a Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport: 1,001 horsepower, 16 cylinders, 8 liters of engine displacement, 4 turbochargers, all-wheel drive and a dual-clutch automatic transmission!
AND it comes with a great cocktail-party boast: if your Veyron, at rest, were passed by a $500,000 Mercedes McLaren SLR doing 100 m.p.h., you could floor the accelerator and still reach 200 m.p.h. before the Mercedes could match its speed
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The removable-roof version of the Veyron coupe costs 1.4 million euros, or roughly $2.1 million.
For that price, a rare species of car owner gets a rocket that gleams across the planet’s surface faster than any true production automobile that has come before. The Bugatti shifts occupants around like a Star Trek transporter: from a standstill to 60 miles per hour in 2.7 seconds, to 125 m.p.h. in just over 7 seconds and on to a top speed of 253 m.p.h. — though 401 kilometers per hour has a better bullet-train ring to it.
Only 150 Grand Sports will be built, tacked onto 300 editions of the Veyron coupe, making the Bugatti the automotive equivalent of a Fabergé egg. Write out a deposit check for $450,000 and get that egg rolling at Bugatti’s atelier in Molsheim, France!
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