Saturday, 8 December 2007

Roof off, pointlessness on.


It's probably the first car to be slower, beacuse it's lighter. For sure, not first to be remarkably more expensive for the same reason.But let's begin from the beginning - it's a mighty Veyron of Bugatti, and it's a no-roof version, named, for example, Roadster. Probably, the heaviest one of all two-seater opened sportscars - but it's not the problem here. The problem is, that with this car the initial idea of Veyron is destroyed. What is Veyron, then? It's the peak of technology, record breaking, tank-heavy hypercar, that can do everything and not lose any of its comfort and luxury - it's something, that nobody achieved before. Well, making a convertible version sounds like a good idea - the luxury level would be improved, then. So - why not? It's shouldn't been done, because opened version of Veyron must be much, much slower, it must be restricted. This small aspect of cutting roof off makes this car completely missed. When restricted to 340 kmh, it's like any other supercar, it's nothing special, really. Whole design process, a massive amont of technology and top engineering - it's all wasted because of the roof. You can make such a car for a third of money it costs - and it'll be really the same good. While all this money and design make the roof version the ultimate supercar of the century, it's all gone when the roof is gone. What you get, is only a ultra-heavy, retro-styled two-seater wtih even no place to store the roof! When closed, Bugatti Veyron may be the best car ever - it's carefully designed and beautifully executed. It was made with plan and aim in mind - and it can do whatever it was designed to. It was made to prove and achieve something. Opened version of this car was made only because of money - it looses all the advantages of previous version and suddenly becomes one of the worst cars in th world. You can't even store this roof in the car! It's sad. When your're on the top, every move can put you down. That's what is happening with this stunning machine, ruined into a miserable, greed-powered mistake.

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