THAT was IMPRESSIVE! The plane is nothing short of amazing....but i gotta say i was pretty damn impressed with the Bugatti....196mph....that's one fast sum*****!
Richard 'hamster 'Hammond...more famous for wiping out a rocket car and nearly losing his life...should have been at bonne or lake Gairdner! http://www.metacafe.com/watch/407616/richard_hammonds_crash/
"I suspect I may get some abuse for this . . . . ." That was a cl***ic line. I dunno, loosing a drag race with a supersonic fighter plane ain't nothing to be ashamed of, especially when you managed to finish in the same time zone. Every time I see a clip of their show, I love Top Gear more and more. Them Brits ain't all bad I suppose. EDIT: Well, in the skinny little guy's defense, things went all pear shaped 'cause a tire came apart. It's not like he freaked out and it got away from him, the thing just decided to spontaneously become a three wheeler without asking permission. He took it like a man though. Did the crash damage him very badly? They don't talk about him getting hurt, but to take a tumble like that at nearly 300 mph, you'd think he'd have come out of it with more than just soiled underoos.
HOLY ****! Can you amagine how much G-force was on that pilot on the vertical down-flight?I've been in fast planes before, and you wanna puke!
Tony, That car will actually do over 250mph! There was a video going around the web a few months back where a English fellow was putting it through it's paces. As he was doing his run he was listing off all sorts of facts and technical data about the car - very impressive! The car has more than 1000hp and at full speed will burn through a set of tires in 15 minutes. But that's okay because it will run out of gas after 13 minutes. I suspect the video could be found on YouTube. Search under Bugatti Veyron. Thor
Sorry, WATCH TOP GEAR!!! It is a GREAT car show. Never ceases to amaze me with the access they have to all things automotive and cool, and they always make me laugh. The show is like jack*** with cars....
AWESOME video! I may have to start watching BBC. My old laddy watches it but mostly for the kitchen nightmares...
We're going to have to shove a Veyron engine inside a '32. It'll be ****** amazing for the half a second it holds up. I can pitch in 5 bucks for the car, anyone else got around the 1.6 million?
definite thumbs up . used to watch it i think it might have been on speed . cant find it now . the other vid is on you tube and it's just freakin awesome . if you dig speed you will love that one !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks for the vid Groucho! That was awesome! The plane took a shortcut though, it didn't actually come back down a full mile, shoulda had him fly under a wire
My 4 year old said wow, That was super kick *** Dad. I guess he spends a lot of time with me Thanks for the video.
I dig the TOP GEAR show. Once you get use to the fact that they despise anything american it is very funny.