Bugatti Veyron in the lake!!!!
 

Happened in Texas. Apparently a low flying pelican was to blame.


http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/The-Ga...lagoon_bugatti

I wonder if that kid knows what he is hooking?

I call dibs on the wing!

Whoops...:_paranoid

You would think the car could also float for that kind of money!

Doesn't that wing only move to that height when approaching ludicrous speed? (gratuitous Spaceballs reference, lol)

Same thing my ole man said. This happend about 10 minutes from our shop. Very Very small town. Actually crazy it was even on the road in this area.

That's what I thought too. Seems like he's going to get a fat insurance check.

Maybe he could have used some cash for "skills" before he bought it?

If I'm the insurance guy - I deny the claim due to negligence... LOL

Ya just can't fix stupid.

They just aired the video on CNBC.... Now this fool is a world famous fool.
:bow:

Have fun explaining that to the insurance guy. I would also call negligence and tell him he's f'd. Should be driving a Yugo. With training wheels.:drive: :brix:

Doesn't full coverage cover negligence?

It might. But it shouldn't.

I bet you cant even get a normal auto policy for that. Like the car, I'm sure its some sort of exclusive rider deal on his personal insurance. Seems like Clarkson spent about thirty minutes on the car phone during a TG episode spelling B-u-g-a-t-t-i...

To his next passenger(if he ever has one), "I'd like to mention that, in the case of a water landing, a flotation device is located beneath your seat."

Similar event. I sold my uncle a mint '92 300Z about 15 years ago. He lives in the Florida Keys. About 4 months after purchase he was showing his friend how fast it would go after dinner and some wine(and a few hits on god knows what). I guess he got going pretty good down a long straight away on one of the islands and was too high to remember where the road actually ended and managed to hit the brakes too late to keep it from sliding off the end of the road, down a boat ramp, and out into the warm clear waters of the Atlantic Ocean. It's fortunate the marine patrol wasn't around to write him a ticket for crushing lobster. Definitely a wonderful family joke now.

honey i'm going to give the car a bath lol

$100 says he told perfect strangers that he owned a BV.... Same $100 says that the DB doesn't mention it anymore.... 'cause now he has to say... :rolleyes: "yeah that was me"....

What a DB.

We can't stop - it's toooo daaaanngerous.... there's a low flying pelican ahead. :rofl:

Or is it hyperactive speed?? :lol: ...love the Spaceballs reference Scott

Tough to explain this...

Video of the Veyron driving into the lake... nope... no pelicans...
(warning - swearing at the end of the video)

:faint:

Hey buddy... it's your insurance company calling... they have bad news...

Oh snap! Gotta love this new "connected" environment we live in :eek:

John

wow. wow. wow. What can one say? He wasn't even going that fast. Thats just insane. I can't believe there's actually a vid of it.

I'll stand by my earlier statement -- a total DB!

I caught that and laughed pretty hard. Yeah, a lambo..... X 10

I thought you had to be going plaid?

I just suffered through all three pages of this thread (the link above). What a difference in people. I am so glad that this forum is not like that forum.

The driver of the Veyron had a total brain fart of some sort. I would go hide in a cave if I did something like that.

I read on another forum that the driver is the guy who fixed and sold the Enzo the Eddie Griffin wrecked a few years back. Guess he makes a living by fixing and selling wrecked exotics, so we know what his next big job is...

My friend is friends with the guy who sold him the car... apparently he paid 1.1 for the car.. then insured it for 2 mil a week before he drove it into the lake. Before the video surfaced... he was claiming a crane or seagals or something made him veer off the road.:_paranoid

Its a different crowd for sure but it one of the best sites for local race scene. I used to have a small tire heads up car and a lot of DFW racers are there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32yyvmlGOdo

And I can appreciate the differences. In fact I wish there was one here for our local track. Maybe there is and I just have not found it yet?:cheers:

The whole deal smells of insurance fraud...

That video is going to kill this guy. He is going to have a tough battle trying to get insurance to pay for this. Of all the threads I have read about this and the guy it sounds like he is a exotic car sales man and repair. Well even though he is around them I don't see him affording cars like this doing that. Reality is going to hit home with this guy. I believe in karma and it catches up to everyone.

Video got removed..WTF?

I guess if you can own one of those you have some big dollar lawyers on retainer....

In the story online it said "he dropped his cellphone and "....so in other words the guys was distracted on the phone or texting or whatever, while driving a 1.1 million dollar car....dumbass

On Top Gear, Clarkson said something along the lines of the fact that it cost like 3 million to build the car but they sell for 2 million.....its purely an exercise on enginnering a car to that degree..... just to say they can do it.

The DB most likely is selling the rights to the video --- or got a payoff agreement to stifle it from the B.V. driver...


YouTube says:

This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Joe M Garza.

The car always looked like a boat. I always thought it would do well in a lake.

Now it's a nice parts car

The video still plays here:

http://jalopnik.com/5404403/