This Is How You Have to Ship Bugatti’s $3M Supercar

[unhappycamper]

http://www.wired.com/2014/08/bugatti-veyron-delivery/



This Is How You Have to Ship Bugatti’s $3M Supercar
By Jordan Golson
08.29.14

When you drop $3 million on a special-edition Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse, you want everything to be perfect. That’s why, before it leaves the factory, Bugatti wraps the car more carefully than royal nurses swaddle the future King George.

This Vitesse, complete with a custom (and questionable) paint job, was delivered to an unnamed buyer at Symbolic Motor Car Company in San Diego. Spencer Berke, an employee at the dealership, photographed the whole unloading process, which took more than two hours from start to finish.

Nearly the entire car is carefully wrapped for protection against scratches, with holes left open for ventilation at the front and exhaust at the rear, and a more translucent covering over the windshield. Only the driver’s door is left uncovered, so the car can be driven on and off a truck during shipping. Each spoke on the rims is individually wrapped with cloth and zip ties. A special mount to store the car’s removable hard top in a garage is included in a separate box. The cars, built in Molsheim, in eastern France, are generally shipped by boat, but impatient customers can have them air mailed for an extra fee.

With 1,200 horsepower, a top-speed of 255 mph, and a 0-60 time of less than 2.6 seconds, the Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse is fantastic machine, and Bugatti and its dealers do everything they can to keep it that way en route from the factory to the owner’s garage.

[Agschmid]

1. There are quite a few of them here in London...

In fact there are tons of nice cars! Cool to see so many on the road.

[cantbeserious]

2. Conspicuous Consumption Of The 1%

eom

[NV Whino]

3. They drop it off in the center turn lane of a busy street?

And the delivery truck itself was pretty wonderful.

[TlalocW]

4. so spoilers appeal

to both teenage boys trying to make their cheap rides look cool and people with too much money.

TlalocW

[Rassah]

6. Unlike cheap rides

this thing actually needs spoilers. The amount of power it puts out would make the wheels spin out at high speeds without those spoilers pushing down on the car to make it weigh many times it's normal weight. The spoilers on this car are also used as airbrakes to stop you when you're doing 200mph+. I'm not sure, but in those last shots where they are shown as fully extended, it may be their brake configuration (though I think the wing actually rotates forward as well). Just FYI.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

5. I see what you mean about the paint job. over kill.