For years I have had both a passion and love for all cars. It is a love that I know I share with many people and it is something that car lovers struggle to pinpoint the exact reason for their avidity for cars. Living in the South coast of England I am privileged enough to live just a stones throw away from Beaulieu National Motor Museum which is home to some of the most prestigious and beautiful cars to grace the Earth. With exhibitions dating all the way back to the birth of the motor car itself the museum really is a place that any car nut can spend all day at.
However, as much as I adore and appreciate the older cars such as the Bugattis and Sunbeams and absolutely fell in love with with a Jaguar E-Type in perfect condition; a car that arrived to the museum just a mere 4 days before my visit was about to take my breath away. For the first time in my life I saw an absolutely stunning all-white Bugatti Veyron through a crowd of people. Despite watching every video and Top Gear episode under the sun involving the modern Godfather of super cars, I never would of thought I would be lucky enough to see one in the flesh. It really is one of the great automotive achievements of our time and has been considered by many as ‘a Concorde moment’. The technology, time and money put into this momentous technical exercise really is beyond belief but even when stripped down to a purely aesthetic level it really is something of extraordinary beauty. The flowing body which channels air to its huge rear wing, the amazing wheels bearing the responsibility of the £20,000 tyres, all the way down to the titanium indicator stalks which are £4,000 each, if there was ever going to be a £1,000,000 super car, it would of always been the Veyron. Despite being released 9 years ago I will always be mesmerized by this sublime example of what is possible and feel so privileged to have seen one. And the fact that Bugatti are always trying to further staple themselves as the ultimate in super car performance really is inspirational. Only last year they unveiled the Grand Sport Vitesse at the Shanghai motor show which, of course, achieved the world record for the fastest open-top production sports car at a colossal speed of 254.04 mph; an absolutely monumental achievement. What Bugatti and VW have managed to achieve with the Veyron really is beyond words, always questioning what is possible, never saying ‘that’ll do’ and moving on and forever believing that anything is possible when the time and effort is put into it. An un-parrelleled achievement which will forever put Bugatti in the history books.
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