1001 horses

Bugatti Veyron 16·4

The Bugatti Veyron 16·4. 1001 horsepower in an 8-litre W16 (ie, 2 V8s sitting side by side) engine with 4 turbos. Who cares how long it takes to get from 0-60; it gets to 180 in 14 seconds. And it’s built by … Volkswagen?

Does that mean that I can reasonably expect to drive it from Buffalo to Miami on one tank of gas?

3 responses from the peanut gallery about “1001 horses”
  1. On August 25th, 2003 at 6:32 pm, Jonathan said:

    Don’t count on it. That’s a lot of thirsty cylinders.

  2. On August 25th, 2003 at 9:43 pm, dickens said:

    why the heck do you care about going from buffalo to miami???

  3. On August 25th, 2003 at 10:52 pm, Andrew said:

    VW had an ad campaign a while back that extolled the Jetta’s ability to travel vast distances on one tank of gas, and I think one of the ads depicted a road trip from Buffalo to Miami. I could be wrong, but Google didn’t turn up the ads, so I couldn’t check.