Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport

Well, it’s been rumoured almost from the time the original Veyron was launched. But now we know for sure. The Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport is for sale from the Spring of 2009.

The Veyron has been a huge success. What seemed like a dream (and at times a nightmare, for VW) when the project was first announced has become a run away success. A trickle of special editions - The Hermes, The Sang Noir and, until now, the ultimate Veyron, the Pur Sang - has kept the interest of the world’s super rich alive, with a long waiting list and almost instant sell-out of the special editions.

The fastest production car ever made (although others claim the title, such as the SSC, they are not real full production models) the Veyron is an unbelievable car. It’s fame and desirability has spread far beyond the normal ‘Petrol-Head’ realm, and is such that a trip in a Veyron, on anything other than empty country roads, leads to an endless stream of camera-phone pointing, tailgating by every other car you come across and a stampede of interest from every pedestrian in sight! It’s worse than going for a quiet drink with Paris Hilton!

If a normal Veyron excites the world as it does, I think the Paramedics are going to have to be on stand-by when the Veyron Grand Sport hits the roads. But it’s not all good news. It looks like the Grand Sport is going to have a removable top rather than a retractable one, which means, in the UK in particular, you’re going to have to be sure the weather is set fair before you set off. The world and his dog would find it quite hilarious to see a Grand Sport driver sat at the lights with his roof off in a downpour! But it’s a minor niggle. Bugatti brought in Webasto to make the top, so it’s bound to be better than the origami set Lamborghini supply for the LP640 Roadster.

But I’ll take one - even at over £1,000,000!

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