GTP Cool Wall: 2005-2011 Bugatti Veyron EB 16.4

[JAHHAJ]

I don't understand American roads, they're a lot wider than UK roads but you have lower speed limits, it makes no sense to me.

 

[Azure Flare]

I don't understand American roads, they're a lot wider than UK roads but you have lower speed limits, it makes no sense to me.

Because 'Merica.

 

[homeforsummer]

I don't understand American roads, they're a lot wider than UK roads but you have lower speed limits, it makes no sense to me.

That's not strictly true. Several states have highway limits higher than the UK (85 mph in Texas, 80 in Utah to name but two) and urban limits vary depending on the kind of roads, which makes a lot of sense.

I.e. there's a more frequent split between 25 and 35 mph urban limits than the largely blanket 30 we have, except on really quiet urban roads where it drops to 20 in the UK.

That's before you even get to the fact that America doesn't just blithely slap speed cameras about the place that are indiscriminate of whether you're doing over the speed limit with no other traffic about on a sunny, quiet day, or whether you're doing over the speed limit past a school at 8:50am.

 

[Wolfe]

Also, just FYI, sideroads or little-used highways that are old enough and have survived being totally reconstructed can be about as wide as the roads in Europe (Germany is my reference). For our big-ass cars and trucks, that sometimes means dipping your tires onto the shoulder to accomodate oncoming traffic.

Still, I've explained to my wife that the average modern two-lane over here would fit at least three lanes in Germany.

 

[fortbo]

Sub zero! Seriously, I don't get all the hate towards this car. Does anyone realize the technology and craftsmanship that goes into making on of these cars. So what it can't corner, this car is a work of art down to the last bolt.

 

[Tornado]

That's before you even get to the fact that America doesn't just blithely slap speed cameras about the place that are indiscriminate of whether you're doing over the speed limit with no other traffic about on a sunny, quiet day, or whether you're doing over the speed limit past a school at 8:50am.

In fact, a lot of times when some local ordinance establishes that they are going to do that, they usually only last a couple of months before being revoked.

 

[Roger the Horse]

Personally I think even British roads are too wide, let alone American ones. Far too much encouragement for people to speed through urban areas.

The only people I've ever really seen get road design right are the Dutch, and occasionally the Belgians. Allowing all traffic to flow safely more than has its benefits, particularly with regards to the fact that it discourages people from unnecessarily using cars for short journeys. I've never seen a traffic jam in the Netherlands.

The Veyron is a pointless car on the road because you'll only ever be able to even use half of its potential in short spurts on the Autobahn, which one could just as easily do in any other very fast car, be it a Lamborghini or a Ferrari or even some Fords. On the track it might be a laugh, but lets be honest, how many Veyron owners take their Veyrons out on track days? Maybe one or two occasionally, but really, most Veyrons are just vanity pieces for rich, insecure people who quite often probably wont have the slightest interest in cars beyond how much it costs and how fast it can go on an empty stretch of straight road so long that you can't see one end from the other because the horizon gets in the way.

It also doesn't help that when I think "Veyron owner" my first thought is of some sleazy guy who comes up to you in the street and starts commenting on your breasts and then hurls verbal abuse at you when you run away. That is the guy I imagine owning a Veyron. That guy is not just seriously uncool, he's something that can only be described by a word so "obscene" that I am sure I would immediately be banned from this forum if I tried to use it.

 

[Ken]

The Bugatti name is enouh for me to vote cool.