Friday, April 28, 2006

Fastest car


Imagine a car that travels over 230 mph and costs in the neighbourhood of $1.2 million and can hit 62 mph in 2.5 seconds and it is not a dream but a reality. The car Veyron manufactured by Bugatti is the world's fastest, most expensive and most exclusive factory-built car. It has short curvy two-seater with massive power. Its 1,001 horsepower engine has four turbochargers. The car's features sound like those on a jet: diffuser flaps, air-intake scoops, a tail wing that acts like an airbrake and 1.7 miles of cable to power onboard electronics. Bugatti, owned by Volkswagen, can only produce one Veyron per week in its newly built factory in France, and will only produce the two-tone vehicle when one is ordered. The company will also stop when it hits 300 orders.Veyron took Bugatti seven years to build. The seven-gear, all-wheel-drive Veyron is so fast that its designers customized three different suspension modes: a mode for "standard" driving below 136 mph; a "handling" mode engaged when the front diffuser flaps open, the body drops closer to the ground and the tail wing and spoilers are "deployed"; and a third "top speed" mode, used for speeds above 233 mph, that has to be manually activated with a separate key.

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