Comparing it to any other car is pointless, because there is nothing else in its $2.1-million (based on current exchange rates) class.
Even if there were another 253-mph drop-top with more luxury appointments than a Bond villain's boudoir, you wouldn't want it. You'd want this exact car, because more than being a blast to drive, it is the greatest gasoline-powered vehicle that has ever been, or will ever be, built. Seriously.
It stands as one of the greatest achievements of the petroleum age.
It was like designing a picture frame to break rocks.
The result is the most structurally rigid convertible in the world,
1,001 horsepower from a mid-mounted, 8.0-liter, 16-cylinder engine
four massive turbochargers. All-wheel drive. A seven-speed, dual-clutch transmission
you can feel your eyeballs deform under the G-forces.
Though its power-to-weight ratio bests the Ferrari F430 by almost 50 percent, the Veyron, at 4,400 pounds, is still more than half a ton heavier.
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