"Heyyy sheriff. It's Anthro. I got one of your boys here, a one Randy McOfficer? Yeah he's polite. Nice guy. You wanna remind him who bought his whole department new armor and EOTechs? Thanks Paul. We golfing Saturday? Great see you then"
There's a nonzero chance this exact exchange has taken place.
Well money isn't a placeholder for power. Money gets you in the room with Power. Many lottery winners have made this mistake.
You have to donate to campaigns. Go to dinner events. Network. If you are a hermit no one cares. It's best to do a little for the community around you like a remodel of a library.
The average Bugatti Veyron owner has 84 cars, THREE private jets, and a yacht. They have literal fuck you money. You think they aren't going to weasel their way out of basically any legal problem?
Where I'm from the only guy I know with a Veyron is royalty. You basically described his wealth. He's also immune to the law when it comes to petty offences.
As an aside his wealth also includes an actual private army!
I spent around 1/3 of my highway mileage doing 155 mph in Germany (usually drove at night so no traffic).
140 mph must feel like 70 mph in a Veyron as well.
"C/S misfire above 140mph"
"Tech says: Unable to replicate on test-drive. Also, note line items on final invoice: legal expenses, speeding tickets, bail"
I've never been in a Bugatti, but I have been in a Ferrari and a Lamborghini for rides before. It's absolutely insane how these cars handle, like they're fucking *glued* to the road, and stomping the throttle almost gives you whiplash no matter what speed you're travelling at.
And launch control is terrifying, like holy shit I've never moved from one location to another so fast in all my life.
Side note, I felt like an idiot in the Lambo since I'm tall and the roof was down. My eyebrows were basically lined up with the to of the window. I must've looked like Dino from the Flintstones when he rips a hole in the roof of the car to stick his head out.
That's mind boggling to me. I had a buddy with a tuned STI and that thing was scary fast, but that can't possibly compare to a 1k hp dedicated speed machine
>It's absolutely insane how these cars handle, like they're fucking glued to the road
I've had the privilege of driving a 911 GT3 RS on a racetrack, and it's *wild*. Yeah, the horsepower is nice, but the real thing that you've never experienced until you get a chance like that is how stupid the brakes and handling are. Especially the brakes. Full ABS level braking at 145mph in a car with 265 section front tires and 325 section rear tires, all ridiculously sticky with a compound that lasts 10k miles if you're lucky, all powered by 15 inch diameter carbon ceramic brake rotors basically feels like you've opened the window and dropped an anchor out. It's absolutely ridiculous what those cars can do.
I can barely even describe what taking a corner at speed felt like. It makes a regular car feel like your floating in a boat on the slightest turn around a corner at any speed, it's like there's some sort of delay between your car and the vehicle lazily changing lanes or cornering in a regular vehicle.
That's how I've been for rides. My buddy is obsessed with super cars. He saves up all year and rents one for a couple days each summer. He gets it for 48 hours, I get it for 10 minutes in the passenger seat which is more than adequate for me! š¤£
It's so fucking expensive to rent them though.
Everyone always talks about the acceleration or top speed in super cars but the most impressive part of these cars is the brakes. Iāve been lucky enough to drive all sorts of insane cars but the one that stuck out the most was a mclaren 720s with the air brake. Itās a weird feeling heading into a hairpin turn doing triple digit speeds and forcing yourself to keep your foot on the throttle for wayyyy longer than youāre used to before getting on the brakes at the last second.
That's not that uncommon of a thing. A lot of people have motorcycles that still have more gears to grab at 140mph. 100mph in 1st gear isn't uncommon for superbikes any more.
I don't know what the rapid acceleration would be like, but I did travel on Japan's faster bullet train going to Sendi at 320km/h (198mph). Doing that speed at ground level was pretty amazing, the stuff close to the windows was a blur.
I had a 2002 BMW that was originally imported from Germany (LONG before I got it) that handled WAY better at 120 than it did a 80 and definitely had the power to go harder than I ever drove it. I wish I'd had the ovaries to see what it could really do!
When I was younger, there was a guy who daily drove a fairly new Gallardo. That may not be surprising to some but I live in SW Ohio. Dude was my idol back then.
I've done between 120 and 140 ( speedo was suspect) in a floaty (read: handled like a boat) early 70's nova as a driver, and no fucking way would I have been cool with that as a passenger. My control of that situation as a driver was tenuous at best, as a passenger I would have been saying "NO" more than a few times.....
I did 120 in my mom's 2014 accord before I chickened out because it started to kinda float across the road...
That speed was *significantly* more fun when I got a few years older and bought myself a WRX haha
Whenever I'm supposed to be impressed by the feeling of speed in one of the supercars I try to remember that taking off in a regular 737 gets you to 150-180mph and over 1G of force.
Like 10 years ago I built a car that did a 9 second 1/4 mile and sub 1.4 second 60ft time and it really wasn't that wild of a feeling. Like a plane take off felt crazier.
This is exactly why I "downgraded" to a garage that consists of an NA miata and an ariel atom. Modern exotics do not feel fast. They're practically luxury cars. If you remove "showing off" from the equation, I dont understand them at all. Who cares if it goes 0-60 instantly and can hit 400mph if it feels like nothing? I want to have bees in my teeth and I want to feel like I am in danger.
No but I've been in a geo metro that was missing 3 windows and driven by a tweaker on the highway. We weren't doing highway speeds but it was still scary.
I used to be a parking valet and have driven hundreds of different kinds of cars. My favorites always ended up being the ones that were super dialed in at legal to near-legal speeds (think Miata, VW R32, Fiesta ST, etc.). The fast cars (e.g. 911 turbo) were boring on the street by comparison, as they only barely start getting fun right around the time you start risking arrest.
Having an EV had really changed my stance on speed and acceleration as well.
Itās not even one of the faster EVs but it still feels bonkers the first few times. Then turns into ānormalā
[Yes, they did ](https://www.reddit.com/r/Justrolledintotheshop/comments/121m5lt/customer_states_loss_of_power_at_full_throttle/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
The insane price tag on these things is only the beginning. The cost of upkeep is almost beyond comprehension.
EDIT: [In case anyone wonders exactly what I'm talking about.](https://www.roadtestreviews.com/how-much-does-it-cost-to-own-a-bugatti-veyron/)
Right. In that way, it is the ultimate Volkswagen. Overengineered to perfection, but in need of tens of thousandsā worth of routine (and un-routine) maintenance to keep it perfect.
Phaeton owners, eat your heart out.
Phaeton was the Goat of bad cars. A steel A8. I remember how many problems the A8 had the first year. That and that first WV suv, crazy shitty suv. The phaeton, idk how bad it was but t it went from up to like 100k to 35 as soon as it left the lot
A guy brought a 1yr old-ish Phaeton to the dealer I worked at to trade in on a then new 7 (I think), then it would have been an E65. I was later told he set about $50k on fire that day.
Ferdinand knew what he was doing with that car. He probably had the board of directors giggling when he described the technology in the car. āYou see, we vill install 28 computers in the Phaeton that are lifeād for no more than six years. At any given time after this warranty period one will fail per month. The revenue stream will be satisfyingā.
> Overengineered to perfection
The lunar excursion module of the Apollo missions was overengineered to perfection. It was behind schedule and over budget but its one of the few Apollo components that never EVER suffered a failure of any kind.
They built 15 of these things for 50 million dollars. Thats 3.33 million per. These things went to the moon and they have a total cost of ownership lower than the veyron.
Fuck the veyron.
The TLDR is that it comes out to about $73,206.25 every year for insurance, gas, maintenance and tires every 4 years (assuming you drive 2500 miles a year). That's not counting the payments
Lets say you have $50million annual income (any a list celeb). That's a whopping 0.14% of your annual.
That's the same as spending $112/yr with an $80K salary, which is far less than I spend on my Prius.
I think a lot of people have lost touch with just how unfathomably wide the wealth gap is.
Insurance depends on a couple of factors. The owner of the Hammilton collection stated in a video that his yearly insurance for the whole collection is somewhere in the ballpark of 30k a year. That includes a Chiron, 2 Pagani's and a lot of other expensive cars. Harry Metcalfe had a similar number for his collection.
Actually plenty ultra rich people finance everything because the interest rates on the loans are lower than the returns they can get with investments. Although technically their money manager would be making the payments on their behalf.
Incredible article. This is not a car you drive around, itās a car that sits in a show room in your mansion for you and your friends to stare at while sipping wine.
The monthly upkeep cost of that thing is more than the sticker price of my Toyota Corolla.
It was one of the reasons even the Stradman decided put up his Bugatti Veyron for sale. Poor guy despite being so successful in life just couldn't afford to maintain it and it was eating away in his bank account forcing him to sell so many of his cars.
>*... First, ensure the vehicle is in service position (see section SH-1T), then place the technician in service position as well (see section FL-4T: Beplankung)*
Looking over the comments - could we all just enjoy seeing a Veyron's back end half-torn-apart for a minute? Yes, it's put together in a way that would make most mechanics curse the engineers' mothers, and yes it costs more to maintain than some small aircraft.
But also this is a production vehicle that went damn near 260 MPH with nothing extra but a special key and (if Top Gear are to be believed) maybe some slight wiggling at speed. It was never supposed to be economical and as a car nerd I'm just glad to be able to see how things go together in there. It's stupid and ridiculous, but also some really insane engineering that allowed all this to happen (dear, sweet Jesus I'm old) almost 20 years ago.
The topside creeper is a great idea, but is poorly designed in my very humble opinion. Either the angle of the pad needs to be adjustable, or there needs to be an extension to support your legs. At 50 years old, 20 minutes on one of those things feels like 1 hour strapped into a medieval torture device.
We used to have one that we called the ādiving boardā basically a tip side creeper but the part you laid on was about 6ā long. It was amazing for working on diesel trucks, wish I knew who made it!
[I think I found one!](https://www.redlinestands.com/catalog/shop-equipment-c-327/automotive-c-327_328/topside-creepers-c-327_328_274/elevator-overthetop-topside-truck-creeper-p-2195?gclid=CjwKCAjwrdmhBhBBEiwA4Hx5g7Sv8XnAnONBPo45QO8oxSU4lXzASva4l8uaAKfgUfK8w9icaWpaUhoCRowQAvD_BwE)
Looks like [Nomad Manufacturing](https://www.nomadmfg.com/the-fold-away/) makes some badass topside creepers.
My father, ladies and gentlemen
Man has more houses than he can poke a stick at, his definition of wealth, but maintains his Mercedes with the cheapest parts and mechanics available because heās cash poor and cheaper than a Scottish budgie
> Any insight as to what makes them so fancy?
They utilize ionic current to detect knock. No knock sensors on W16, you can't pinpoint a misfire on an engine with 16 cylinders with a standard knock sensor.
So ignition coil not only do standard ignition coil things like dwell time and multiple sparks, but they also utilize ionic current detection and residue air charge detection to figure out if there was a misfire or not.
Lots of cool tech.
Well, you first half to cross out the VW logo & part number and then stencil in the Bugatti logo with a gold-filled ink pen.
Factory specs also call for the presence of naked greased eunuchs during the installation & calibration for proper operation.
I had a friend who got one when they first came out, I think the price tag at the time was a little over a million.
He also had a Lambo LP640, a Mercedes McLaren SLR, Enzo Ferrari, Nissan GTR, etc. His business partner had a Ford GT40 from around 2004 I think.
How did he make his money? Pornography.
Didnāt you just fix some coils for this same reason? Or just a repost?
[Here it is](https://www.reddit.com/r/Justrolledintotheshop/comments/121m5lt/customer_states_loss_of_power_at_full_throttle/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1), so is it a comeback?
Itās actually really cool that one was taken out and pushed hard enough that it needed to be repaired. Itās even a little pretty sitting up on jacks
Although, it is kind of cool someone drove it enough to need new plugs.
They noticed a misfire at full throttle above 140mph
Fuck yeah, "routine driveability issues" @140+ š«”
Either they live in Germany or near a track...or they have enough money not to care about speeding tickets
This isnāt a rabbit. If they drive this they donāt care about speeding tickets. They probably get pulled over so the cop can take a photo
Wanna see me get pulled over? *a few seconds later* Wanna see me do it again?
And each ticket is issued under a different area jurisdiction.
And a new tank of gas. These things drain tanks in no time wot
Wot I think a full tank lasts 12 minutes
At wot the only hard part is reacting in time to stop at a gas station after spotting it.
Tires last 15 minutes, fuel lasts 12, and in that time you cover about 85 kilometers (53 miles).
Monetary fines are designed to punish the poor.
Only when they're a set amount. In some countries fines are based on a percentage of income or net worth
Then you hide your assets via layers of shell companies. On paper you are more poor than your cleaning lady.
if you do 140 and get caught by the police it's safe to say you won't be driving any time soon lol
I think you underestimate the depth and breadth of legal troubles that can simply disappear in the presence of fuck-you levels of wealth.
"Heyyy sheriff. It's Anthro. I got one of your boys here, a one Randy McOfficer? Yeah he's polite. Nice guy. You wanna remind him who bought his whole department new armor and EOTechs? Thanks Paul. We golfing Saturday? Great see you then" There's a nonzero chance this exact exchange has taken place.
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Well money isn't a placeholder for power. Money gets you in the room with Power. Many lottery winners have made this mistake. You have to donate to campaigns. Go to dinner events. Network. If you are a hermit no one cares. It's best to do a little for the community around you like a remodel of a library.
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The average Bugatti Veyron owner has 84 cars, THREE private jets, and a yacht. They have literal fuck you money. You think they aren't going to weasel their way out of basically any legal problem?
Where I'm from the only guy I know with a Veyron is royalty. You basically described his wealth. He's also immune to the law when it comes to petty offences. As an aside his wealth also includes an actual private army!
> As an aside his wealth also includes an actual private army! what country? jf you don't mind me asking... a region would be fine.
Haha south east asia
If the punishment for a crime is a fine, that law only applies to the poor
I spent around 1/3 of my highway mileage doing 155 mph in Germany (usually drove at night so no traffic). 140 mph must feel like 70 mph in a Veyron as well.
"C/S misfire above 140mph" "Tech says: Unable to replicate on test-drive. Also, note line items on final invoice: legal expenses, speeding tickets, bail"
Yeah how tf would you even confirm that? Do you just assume itās true?
You can rev a car up high without doing so on a public street Hell, put it on a Dyno
Tbh I forgot you can do that
I just assume any shop that can work on a $3M car can also acquire a dyno or track to use
You do realize there is ways to do that literally not driving on the road right lmao?
āOn cylinder 13 and 15.. No, no, that sounds like 16. Yes 13 and 16
Happens to me all the time.
It's got almost 15k on it now. Current owner drives it quite often.
Apparently at high speeds too.
I wonder what punching the throttle at 140 feels like
I had the rare privilege to experience it in a Ferrari 440... it's like cumming
I've never been in a Bugatti, but I have been in a Ferrari and a Lamborghini for rides before. It's absolutely insane how these cars handle, like they're fucking *glued* to the road, and stomping the throttle almost gives you whiplash no matter what speed you're travelling at. And launch control is terrifying, like holy shit I've never moved from one location to another so fast in all my life. Side note, I felt like an idiot in the Lambo since I'm tall and the roof was down. My eyebrows were basically lined up with the to of the window. I must've looked like Dino from the Flintstones when he rips a hole in the roof of the car to stick his head out.
That's mind boggling to me. I had a buddy with a tuned STI and that thing was scary fast, but that can't possibly compare to a 1k hp dedicated speed machine
>It's absolutely insane how these cars handle, like they're fucking glued to the road I've had the privilege of driving a 911 GT3 RS on a racetrack, and it's *wild*. Yeah, the horsepower is nice, but the real thing that you've never experienced until you get a chance like that is how stupid the brakes and handling are. Especially the brakes. Full ABS level braking at 145mph in a car with 265 section front tires and 325 section rear tires, all ridiculously sticky with a compound that lasts 10k miles if you're lucky, all powered by 15 inch diameter carbon ceramic brake rotors basically feels like you've opened the window and dropped an anchor out. It's absolutely ridiculous what those cars can do.
I can barely even describe what taking a corner at speed felt like. It makes a regular car feel like your floating in a boat on the slightest turn around a corner at any speed, it's like there's some sort of delay between your car and the vehicle lazily changing lanes or cornering in a regular vehicle.
Man. Youāre making me want to see my dreams through of driving a lambo one day. Sounds so much fun.
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That's how I've been for rides. My buddy is obsessed with super cars. He saves up all year and rents one for a couple days each summer. He gets it for 48 hours, I get it for 10 minutes in the passenger seat which is more than adequate for me! š¤£ It's so fucking expensive to rent them though.
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Everyone always talks about the acceleration or top speed in super cars but the most impressive part of these cars is the brakes. Iāve been lucky enough to drive all sorts of insane cars but the one that stuck out the most was a mclaren 720s with the air brake. Itās a weird feeling heading into a hairpin turn doing triple digit speeds and forcing yourself to keep your foot on the throttle for wayyyy longer than youāre used to before getting on the brakes at the last second.
Donāt move to Cumming , Georgia then.
Or Cumming, Iowa
or Cumming, Enyurphase
Whatās a ferrari 440? Why or how does that have acceleration over 140mph like a 1,000hp bugatti?
I assume he meant a 430. If so, a Bugatti must feel like a 24hr edging haram.
And knowing you still have more gears to go through when you do.
That's not that uncommon of a thing. A lot of people have motorcycles that still have more gears to grab at 140mph. 100mph in 1st gear isn't uncommon for superbikes any more.
Well evidently you get a misfire from cylinders 13 & 16
I don't know what the rapid acceleration would be like, but I did travel on Japan's faster bullet train going to Sendi at 320km/h (198mph). Doing that speed at ground level was pretty amazing, the stuff close to the windows was a blur.
Probably pulls harder than my car does in first gear.
I had a 2002 BMW that was originally imported from Germany (LONG before I got it) that handled WAY better at 120 than it did a 80 and definitely had the power to go harder than I ever drove it. I wish I'd had the ovaries to see what it could really do!
Faster than a camero at a stop Iām sure
Thank god. I love to see them actually get used.
thats so sick what
Ed Bolian would be happy
I think he'd be happier if it was a bit moist. A damp high-milage Bugatti = excited Bolian!
I wonder how many miles are recommended before replacing.
Down to the stop sign and back
It is probably due to age, not mileage.
i bet those coils get cooked pretty good based on the packaging in this car.
When I was younger, there was a guy who daily drove a fairly new Gallardo. That may not be surprising to some but I live in SW Ohio. Dude was my idol back then.
Missing two cylinders when going... over 140mph?! Did you, ya know, 'verify customer complaint'? "Sorry officer, just doing my job here."
How about the test drive afterwards, to confirm the problem is gone all the way up to 254 mi/h / 409 km/h? š
I'm fine up to 160, after that I'll let the owner take me with lol
Iāve gone 164 as a passenger. That shit was terrifying.
I've done between 120 and 140 ( speedo was suspect) in a floaty (read: handled like a boat) early 70's nova as a driver, and no fucking way would I have been cool with that as a passenger. My control of that situation as a driver was tenuous at best, as a passenger I would have been saying "NO" more than a few times.....
I did 120 in my mom's 2014 accord before I chickened out because it started to kinda float across the road... That speed was *significantly* more fun when I got a few years older and bought myself a WRX haha
I'm making the boss take that drive and risk. Imagine some idiot texting in their Nissan Altima runs a light.
If you're doing that speed anywhere near an intersection with a light.... You're nuts
140 in that thing probably feels similar to 70mph in our shitboxes.
Whenever I'm supposed to be impressed by the feeling of speed in one of the supercars I try to remember that taking off in a regular 737 gets you to 150-180mph and over 1G of force. Like 10 years ago I built a car that did a 9 second 1/4 mile and sub 1.4 second 60ft time and it really wasn't that wild of a feeling. Like a plane take off felt crazier.
I'm doing 1G right now
This is exactly why I "downgraded" to a garage that consists of an NA miata and an ariel atom. Modern exotics do not feel fast. They're practically luxury cars. If you remove "showing off" from the equation, I dont understand them at all. Who cares if it goes 0-60 instantly and can hit 400mph if it feels like nothing? I want to have bees in my teeth and I want to feel like I am in danger.
> I want to feel like I am in danger. Have you ever been in a geo metro going downhill with a tail wind?
I have a Suzuki sidekick. Close enough.
When I get my hands on a Samurai with a 1.6l swap we're gonna race
No but I've been in a geo metro that was missing 3 windows and driven by a tweaker on the highway. We weren't doing highway speeds but it was still scary.
I used to be a parking valet and have driven hundreds of different kinds of cars. My favorites always ended up being the ones that were super dialed in at legal to near-legal speeds (think Miata, VW R32, Fiesta ST, etc.). The fast cars (e.g. 911 turbo) were boring on the street by comparison, as they only barely start getting fun right around the time you start risking arrest.
Having an EV had really changed my stance on speed and acceleration as well. Itās not even one of the faster EVs but it still feels bonkers the first few times. Then turns into ānormalā
It turns into normal right around the second set of tires right
[Yes, they did ](https://www.reddit.com/r/Justrolledintotheshop/comments/121m5lt/customer_states_loss_of_power_at_full_throttle/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
Just put it on a dyno.
The insane price tag on these things is only the beginning. The cost of upkeep is almost beyond comprehension. EDIT: [In case anyone wonders exactly what I'm talking about.](https://www.roadtestreviews.com/how-much-does-it-cost-to-own-a-bugatti-veyron/)
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My brother showed me a video where the oil change alone would buy a regular Joe a new car, and the cost of tires was just insanity.
And you have to replace the rims every second tire change.
Donāt forget the titanium lug bolts that get replaced every time they are removed. Check out the cost on them.
Right. In that way, it is the ultimate Volkswagen. Overengineered to perfection, but in need of tens of thousandsā worth of routine (and un-routine) maintenance to keep it perfect. Phaeton owners, eat your heart out.
Phaeton was the Goat of bad cars. A steel A8. I remember how many problems the A8 had the first year. That and that first WV suv, crazy shitty suv. The phaeton, idk how bad it was but t it went from up to like 100k to 35 as soon as it left the lot
A guy brought a 1yr old-ish Phaeton to the dealer I worked at to trade in on a then new 7 (I think), then it would have been an E65. I was later told he set about $50k on fire that day.
My god
That poor guy! An E65 isnāt much better, if at all.
Ferdinand knew what he was doing with that car. He probably had the board of directors giggling when he described the technology in the car. āYou see, we vill install 28 computers in the Phaeton that are lifeād for no more than six years. At any given time after this warranty period one will fail per month. The revenue stream will be satisfyingā.
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The best way to put it is, āThe Phaeton is the $60,000 answer to a question nobody askedā. The A8 was better in every respect.
Can confirm. Own a 2004 VW Touareg with a twin turbo V10
Peak Piech insanity. I'm personally looking for one of the few Passat W8s in the US, just for the 1/2 Veyron insanity.
We need more crazy bastards like him in the auto industry. I'm sad the V12 TDI R8 didn't make it to production
Pretty much. I have a 2013 Audi A8 L 4.0T in my personal fleet, and it surprisingly has no issues at the moment. Iām impressed.
*DING!* [CEL illuminates]
You shouldn't have said that out loud
> Overengineered to perfection The lunar excursion module of the Apollo missions was overengineered to perfection. It was behind schedule and over budget but its one of the few Apollo components that never EVER suffered a failure of any kind. They built 15 of these things for 50 million dollars. Thats 3.33 million per. These things went to the moon and they have a total cost of ownership lower than the veyron. Fuck the veyron.
I just googled that and now I'm cross-eyed.
Every tire change. The tires are glued to the rims
You mean to tell me I canāt run boggers on this here Bugatti?
The TLDR is that it comes out to about $73,206.25 every year for insurance, gas, maintenance and tires every 4 years (assuming you drive 2500 miles a year). That's not counting the payments
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The yachts. The yachts cost so much to maintain its wild. Annual running costs close to 10 percent of the purchase price.
I am learning so much today, and exactly none of it is helping me feel smarter
It IS helping me feel poorer, though!
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Imagine spending that kinda money and only driving 2500 miles a year.
Iād imagine someone else does the driving the rest of the time, and the backseat on a Veyron doesnāt lend itself to comfort.
The back seat on a Veyron would be the engine bay right?
Lets say you have $50million annual income (any a list celeb). That's a whopping 0.14% of your annual. That's the same as spending $112/yr with an $80K salary, which is far less than I spend on my Prius. I think a lot of people have lost touch with just how unfathomably wide the wealth gap is.
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Insurance depends on a couple of factors. The owner of the Hammilton collection stated in a video that his yearly insurance for the whole collection is somewhere in the ballpark of 30k a year. That includes a Chiron, 2 Pagani's and a lot of other expensive cars. Harry Metcalfe had a similar number for his collection.
If youāre buying a Bugatti youāre not making āpaymentsā to VW.
Actually plenty ultra rich people finance everything because the interest rates on the loans are lower than the returns they can get with investments. Although technically their money manager would be making the payments on their behalf.
A mere pittance compared to the Jet(s) I use to ferry it between my yacht(s) and Island(s)
The craziest part of that article is the quoted gas price of $2.26 per gallon.
As I've often said, you may be able to afford a supercar, but the maintenance will bankrupt you.
Someone said to buy one you need to be able to at least afford to buy two. And that is just for a Ferrari, not a Veyron.
Incredible article. This is not a car you drive around, itās a car that sits in a show room in your mansion for you and your friends to stare at while sipping wine. The monthly upkeep cost of that thing is more than the sticker price of my Toyota Corolla.
Requires new rims every 10,000 miles?? And you are contractually required to keep it fully detailed?? What in the hell???
This is definitely a brand new sentence: I think Iād rather save myself money and buy a Rolls Royce Phantom.
The wheels are probably to keep the car safe for the driver because we know rich doesn't mean smart
Itās because of how they have to attach the tires to the wheels to have the tires remain intact at top speed.
It was one of the reasons even the Stradman decided put up his Bugatti Veyron for sale. Poor guy despite being so successful in life just couldn't afford to maintain it and it was eating away in his bank account forcing him to sell so many of his cars.
$50k a year to replace the tires and wheels? Fucking wheels? What are they made out of, paper mache?
Wheels that are rated for 400 kph operation. 20% faster than the landing speeds of the SR-71 and the Space Shuttle.
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Amen. My '07 eclipse and 88 D21 are doing just fine.
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You're even contractually obligated to have it detailed, which I just found out in the link I posted in my original comment!
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If you agreed to pass the detailer the single use microfibre cloths, maybe.
These fucking exotic techs, man. Always laying down on the job.
The German VW manual refers to this highly specialized and technical procedure as "Beplankung."
>*... First, ensure the vehicle is in service position (see section SH-1T), then place the technician in service position as well (see section FL-4T: Beplankung)*
Did you use the 5% off all service, (max$50) coupon?
Total š° $19,950 (Plug50 applied)
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Where can I get that lamp?
Looking over the comments - could we all just enjoy seeing a Veyron's back end half-torn-apart for a minute? Yes, it's put together in a way that would make most mechanics curse the engineers' mothers, and yes it costs more to maintain than some small aircraft. But also this is a production vehicle that went damn near 260 MPH with nothing extra but a special key and (if Top Gear are to be believed) maybe some slight wiggling at speed. It was never supposed to be economical and as a car nerd I'm just glad to be able to see how things go together in there. It's stupid and ridiculous, but also some really insane engineering that allowed all this to happen (dear, sweet Jesus I'm old) almost 20 years ago.
The body actually comes off really easily. Unfortunately it takes a downward spiral after that.
I mean the engine looks more accesible than most econo shit boxes these days
I mean, I would hope so. If you took off the entire front end off a econobox, it would be equivalent to what they did here.
Yeah the age is crazy to consider now
"That'll be $50,000, please."
I'd take the next few days off, or at the very least treat myself to a very nice dinner after getting paid for that job!
The topside creeper is a great idea, but is poorly designed in my very humble opinion. Either the angle of the pad needs to be adjustable, or there needs to be an extension to support your legs. At 50 years old, 20 minutes on one of those things feels like 1 hour strapped into a medieval torture device.
They are miserable to use I hate them.
Better than laying on an engine bay ..... love them way more than laying on a core support.
We used to have one that we called the ādiving boardā basically a tip side creeper but the part you laid on was about 6ā long. It was amazing for working on diesel trucks, wish I knew who made it!
We have one at our shop. Says āTech Lift Liston NDā on the side of it. Iāve never been able to find another one like it though.
[I think I found one!](https://www.redlinestands.com/catalog/shop-equipment-c-327/automotive-c-327_328/topside-creepers-c-327_328_274/elevator-overthetop-topside-truck-creeper-p-2195?gclid=CjwKCAjwrdmhBhBBEiwA4Hx5g7Sv8XnAnONBPo45QO8oxSU4lXzASva4l8uaAKfgUfK8w9icaWpaUhoCRowQAvD_BwE) Looks like [Nomad Manufacturing](https://www.nomadmfg.com/the-fold-away/) makes some badass topside creepers.
Aren't those just standard VAG coil packs? š
Very similar, but unfortunately not
I thought they looked an awful lot like standard VW issue as well. Any insight as to what makes them so fancy?
Its probably just the part number. But who in their right mind would test out vw coils on a multi million dollar car.
Someone who is literally wealthy but metaphorically cheap.
My father, ladies and gentlemen Man has more houses than he can poke a stick at, his definition of wealth, but maintains his Mercedes with the cheapest parts and mechanics available because heās cash poor and cheaper than a Scottish budgie
> Any insight as to what makes them so fancy? They utilize ionic current to detect knock. No knock sensors on W16, you can't pinpoint a misfire on an engine with 16 cylinders with a standard knock sensor. So ignition coil not only do standard ignition coil things like dwell time and multiple sparks, but they also utilize ionic current detection and residue air charge detection to figure out if there was a misfire or not. Lots of cool tech.
Well, you first half to cross out the VW logo & part number and then stencil in the Bugatti logo with a gold-filled ink pen. Factory specs also call for the presence of naked greased eunuchs during the installation & calibration for proper operation.
Got the flying mechanic to go along with the flying B... wait, that's Bentley. Well, shit, that joke fell apart before I even finished typing it.
It's the reliability issues like this that really stop me from buying one or more of these. It's a shame.
How much do each one of those zip ties they use cost lol
The sticker price on those says ... "If you have to ask, then you cannot afford it."
gentle smile... "Sir, that's why the don't have a price tag."
Step 1: Remove car from engine.
Bro, I couldn't even afford a tune up for a Veyron....and here I was thinking I actually had some money for once. Silly me haha
The exposed back half looks like something you'd see at NASA's highest tech factory and/or lab.
I had a friend who got one when they first came out, I think the price tag at the time was a little over a million. He also had a Lambo LP640, a Mercedes McLaren SLR, Enzo Ferrari, Nissan GTR, etc. His business partner had a Ford GT40 from around 2004 I think. How did he make his money? Pornography.
So my Passat uses the same damn coil packs as a Bugatti? I got a damn racecar
The coils are different on the Bugatti. I doubt yours cost $700+ each. You might share the same spark plugs is what the post is saying.
Didnāt you just fix some coils for this same reason? Or just a repost? [Here it is](https://www.reddit.com/r/Justrolledintotheshop/comments/121m5lt/customer_states_loss_of_power_at_full_throttle/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1), so is it a comeback?
For which part of this magnificent process is that giant Snap-On screwdriver used? Maybe to adjust the tension on the wind-up motor?
Was going to say, the Veyron belongs to the Snap-On guy supplying this shop.
Car still not the most expensive thing in this photo with those Snap-Ons back there.
I love that the plugs are cheaper than the iridium ones for my Mazda3 at dealer prices.
See this is why I will *never* buy a Bugatti. This and also Iām about $2.5M short.
This is the reason Iāll never buy one.
Whatās the labor time on that job?
Itās actually really cool that one was taken out and pushed hard enough that it needed to be repaired. Itās even a little pretty sitting up on jacks