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Bugatti's Latest Veyron, Most Ridiculous Car on the Planet?
Wired has an amusing writeup that accurately captures the most recent ridiculous addition to Bugatti's automobile catalog. The $2.1 million Veyron sports over 1,000 horsepower, a 16-cylinder engine, and a top speed of 245 mph. The guilty conscience comes for free. "That same cash-filled briefcase could buy seven Ferrari 599s or every single 2009 model Mercedes. You could snap up a top-shelf Maybach and employ a chauffeur until well past the apocalypse. Hell, in this economy, $2.1 million is probably enough to make you a one-man special-interest group with some serious Washington clout."
TFA waffles on about how Bugatti had to work on the structure to make it survive at 250 miles per hour, but honestly, speeds like that are just routine for twin engined aeroplanes. They need to be engineered to do that too but it isn't really a big deal.
Amateurs have built cars which go close to the sound barrier. Cars were going as fast as this 50 years ago. Sure, road vehicles get stressed a bit more than aircraft, but any sail plane comes with a 20G crash cage made out of normal aluminium. And they cost, what? 100 grand?
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Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
Welcome to the late 2000s. Be sure to feel guilty about the things you do in proportion to how much greenhouse effect gasses were emitted in the process. I had to start popping vitamin B12 just to make up for the guilt I feel for eating meat from such methane emitting animals as cows.
You just got troll'd!
Imagine yourself stepping out of your $2.1M toy and saying that to someone whose children have died of starvation. Does that give you a slight moral twinge?
Hey, I'm going to do the wikipedia thing here and claim *citation needed
Seriously, in modern professional homes, both parents are working and they both seem to be working at good jobs. Sure, there are going to be some trophy wives out there but for the most part, people who work their ass off don't really like being attached to people who do nothing.
Feel free to mix in all the oxygen you want... you still can't breathe exhaust fumes for any significant period of time. If it were truly cleaner than city air, you should be able to breathe it for years.