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TXSTYLE Nov 12, 2009 12:29 PM

Buggatti Veyron Can Fly! But It Can't FLOAT...!
 
Wow... Just wow! More Bread than Brains yet again. :tsk:


The two-seater, with 16 cylinders and four turbo chargers, can reach speeds of more than 250 mph. New models sell for about $2 million.

The man, who refused to give his name, was looking at real estate in Galveston.

About 3 p.m. a low-flying pelican distracted him as he traveled north on Interstate 45 just south of the hurricane levee near Omega Bay.

The man jerked the wheel, dropped his cell phone, and the car's front tire left the frontage road and entered a muddy patch, which foiled his attempt to maneuver away from the lagoon.

The Veyron's powerful engine gurgled like an outboard motor for about 15 minutes before it died.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcom8...layer_embedded

sleeper408 Nov 12, 2009 02:14 PM

Driving 242mph and trying to "take-in" the scenery at the same time is a bad idea. Hahaha....

encore888 Nov 12, 2009 08:45 PM

Driving with cell-phone...no-no.

EN_VY Nov 12, 2009 09:00 PM

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Damn it, the video was taken down!! I found a pic though

Iocca Nov 12, 2009 09:09 PM

did it say where he was from or what the license plate said?

EN_VY Nov 12, 2009 09:19 PM

^Houston maybe? Its says Galveston..

PhilipMSPT Nov 12, 2009 10:05 PM

Oh my god!

That's a travesty!

JessePS Nov 13, 2009 05:07 AM

I just saw this now. Man that really sucks :(

muhbuhtuh Nov 13, 2009 06:14 AM

hhahahahahahahahaah!! the only thing i can think of is just to laugh at this man

Lil4X Nov 14, 2009 05:25 AM

Update and video clip of the crash:

http://www.khou.com/news/Police-iden...-69998852.html

Owner claims he was "distracted by a pelican". Note the video shows no pelican.

Car was totaled and will go to auction. A nice refreshing dip in a salt marsh means a frame-off restoration before this car is worth anything. That, or a quick hose-down and flush before the corrodamonster moves in and a quick trip to the auction block. Hopefully there is still ONE car nut in the world who hasn't seen the video.

4TehNguyen Nov 14, 2009 05:39 AM

dunno if this is conclusive or not:
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/image...9ae03/340x.jpg

http://jalopnik.com/5404403/exclusiv...to-texas-lake?

Lil4X Nov 14, 2009 06:35 AM

The driver claims now to have dropped his phone and was searching on the floor for it when he ran off the road. Fortunately his company specializes in restoring wrecked exotics, so he's going to have a nice project ahead of him. I'm not quite sure which would do more damage to that car, the lake, or a crew of yard apes in his Lufkin shop.

bitkahuna Nov 14, 2009 06:39 AM

if his own company can restore it (maybe) and he has insurance, does this mean his own company just got a huge piece of new business? :D

Lil4X Nov 14, 2009 07:25 AM

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ooooh! Can anyone smell insurance scam? Ol' Ettore must be spinning in his grave about now.

Incidentally, that stretch of I-45 just north of the Galveston Causeway, south of Bayou Vista, fronts a shallow salt marsh (seen above at high tide) for about a mile +. Running off into the swamp was a whole lot safer than taking out a row of fence posts or punching a hole in one of the local businesses almost anywhere else on the route.

TXSTYLE Nov 14, 2009 09:22 AM


Originally Posted by Lil4X (Post 5003126)
ooooh! Can anyone smell insurance scam? Ol' Ettore must be spinning in his grave about now.

Incidentally, that stretch of I-45 just north of the Galveston Causeway, south of Bayou Vista, fronts a shallow salt marsh (seen above at high tide) for about a mile +. Running off into the swamp was a whole lot safer than taking out a row of fence posts or punching a hole in one of the local businesses almost anywhere else on the route.

Exactly!!! Water damage is damn near impossible to repair! He is trying to get a "total". $1-$2 M is a nice grip.


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