Fortunately, production of the Veyron is extremely limited, with fewer than 400 total examples slated to be produced.
The production started with a Bugatti Veyron Sport that was transformed using layers of tape applied in sinuous lines.
The latest Veyron incarnation has 20% more power than the 1, 001hp Grand Sport.
But the Bugatti Veyron placed on the baddie list, as did two Bentleys.
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Those numbers nearly match the Bugatti Veyron, which costs four times as much and packs hundreds more horses under the hood.
Stephan's an agnostic on the morality of buying such a car now, but he came away believing the Veyron is worth the money.
It's worth repeating: The Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport is the fastest production car in the world--faster than an underwater torpedo or a bullet train.
Bugatti showed the Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse, a 1, 200-horsepower convertible packed with a 8.0-liter, quad-turbocharged W16 engine that tops out at 267 miles per hour.
Racer Pierre-Henri Raphanel proved it in July, when he pushed the speedometer of this third and final edition of Bugatti's iconic Veyron line to 268 miles per hour.
It's the fastest, most expensive, most powerful series-production road car ever built and, believe me, if the VW guys wanted to turn up the wick, we could see a 300-mph Veyron.
The piece also details a conversion experience: Veteran auto correspondent Stephan Wilkinson confesses that when the Veyron was introduced, he considered it an arrogant status symbol and refused to test-drive it on principle.
Inside its mirrored main room is a Bugatti Veyron 16.4 in liquid silver by the artist Olaf Nicolai, which is made even more dramatic by the lights from a neon work by Anselm Reyle.
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These include highly desirable (and, obviously, well-secured) rides like the Bentley Azure and Brooklands, Bugatti Veyron, BMW M3, M5 and M6, Dodge Viper, Porsche Boxster or Cayman and the entire Aston Martin, Ferrari, Lamborghini and Rolls-Royce lineups.
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