Bugatti Veyron (Top Gear Car of the Decade)

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    Bugatti Veyron (Top Gear Car of the Decade) in Blue and White (1:43 scale) - On Top Gear the car has received considerable praise from all three presenters. Jeremy Clarkson declared the Veyron >the greatest piece of engineering ever. No, I"m sorry, this is the greatest car ever made and the greatest car we will ever see in our lifetime.> James May proclaimed that the Veyron is >our Concorde moment>. To review the car, Clarkson drove from Alba, northern Italy to London whilst racing James May and Richard Hammond who were travelling in a Cessna 182 aeroplane. During the race Clarkson attempted to get an insurance quote on the car but the company he tried did not know what the car was. James May got a go at driving the Veyron when he went to the VW test track and took it to its top speed of 253 mph. During the second episode of the 13th season, Richard Hammond raced the Veyron against the McLaren F1 driven by The Stig in a one mile drag race in Abu Dhabi, commenting on the pinnacle of Bugatti"s >amazing technical achievement> versus the >non gizmo> racing purity of the F1. While the F1 was quicker off the line and remained ahead until both cars were going roughly 200 kilometers per hour, the Bugatti then overtook its competitor during the climb from 200 to 300 km/h and emerged the victor. Hammond has stated that he did not use the Veyron"s launch control in order to make the race more interesting. The Veyron also won the award for >Car of the Decade> in Top Gear"s end of 2009 award show. Jeremy Clarkson commented >It was a car that just rewrote the rulebook really, an amazing piece of engineering, a genuine Concorde moment> Comes in individually numbered, flip-top presentation box. Please note: this model does not include Stig figure.
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