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Vincey B
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PostPosted: 14:35 - 06 Mar 2007    Post subject: If you thought you had a bad weekend.... Reply with quote
Think of this poor chap:

https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/surrey/6422215.stm
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Weedy
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PostPosted: 14:38 - 06 Mar 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
If I see that picture one more time, I think I'll pop! Laughing
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cqueen
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PostPosted: 14:40 - 06 Mar 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
He won't get any sympathy from me! the basterd own a Veyron!
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Annabella
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PostPosted: 14:45 - 06 Mar 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
Brilliant, that news story is now the "Most Viewed" on the BBC website. Laughing
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syris
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PostPosted: 16:03 - 06 Mar 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
The car was rented for the day for the tidy sum of £20k apparently... Shocked
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syris
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PostPosted: 16:08 - 06 Mar 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
Before:

https://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h17/blackenzo/IMG_0451.jpg

After:

https://www.tyresmoke.net/attachments/1101314-veyron3.jpg
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owdamer
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PostPosted: 17:37 - 06 Mar 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
Its just a car. Rolling Eyes
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cqueen
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PostPosted: 17:44 - 06 Mar 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
I just read on another forum that it was the owners brother driving the car, and he was not suitably insured... Exclamation
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owdamer
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PostPosted: 18:27 - 06 Mar 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
If he can afford £800,000 for a car then i'm sure he can afford to fix it. I've got no sympathy whatsoever.
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tokarev
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PostPosted: 18:39 - 06 Mar 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
Nah, he is probably loving it. All this attention.

I remember watching the Gumball Rally, where some guy totalled his Ferrari. He was just laughing about it and said something along the lines of, "I will just buy another". So this guy is probably not too worried about the cost of repairing his Veyron.
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Jamie S
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PostPosted: 19:02 - 06 Mar 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
its one of only 12 in this country Shocked , although that car WILL be able to be repaired, might cost a few £££s but it will be sorted out.

BBC wrote:
Only 300 Bugatti Veyron cars have been built. This car is thought to be one of only about 12 in Britain
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owdamer
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PostPosted: 21:00 - 06 Mar 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
jamie stokes wrote:
its one of only 12 in this country Shocked , although that car WILL be able to be repaired, might cost a few £££s but it will be sorted out.


Says who? its not as if you can walk into a shop and buy the bits.
Who's going to repair it? I dont know about surrey, but i'm pretty sure theres no bugatti approved repairers around here. I wouldn't be at all surprised if the repair bill comes in around a similar price to a replacement. Not that you can just get one of those either.
Whats it going to do for its resale value as well? no one is gonna touch it unless they're stupid. saying that you'd have to be pretty stupid to pay £800k for a car anyway.

https://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42647000/jpg/_42647261_bugattifront2_416.jpg

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john2
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PostPosted: 21:02 - 06 Mar 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
Owdamer wrote:
jamie stokes wrote:
its one of only 12 in this country Shocked , although that car WILL be able to be repaired, might cost a few £££s but it will be sorted out.


Says who? its not as if you can walk into a shop and buy the bits.
Who's going to repair it? I dont know about surrey, but i'm pretty sure theres no bugatti approved repairers around here. I wouldn't be at all surprised if the repair bill comes in around a similar price to a replacement. Not that you can just get one of those either.
Whats it going to do for its resale value as well? no one is gonna touch it unless they're stupid. saying that you'd have to be pretty stupid to pay £800k for a car anyway.


Maybe buy the parts of ebay, u reckon they do pattern parts???


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owdamer
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PostPosted: 21:08 - 06 Mar 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
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Maybe buy the parts of ebay, u reckon they do pattern parts???




https://motors.search.ebay.co.uk/veyron_Cars-Parts-Vehicles_W0QQcatrefZC12QQfromZR40QQsacatZ9800

er, no. Very Happy
you can buy a brochure for £129 though.
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MarJay
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PostPosted: 21:35 - 06 Mar 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
I'd buy it cheap and put the engine in my MR2...


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Minky_monkey
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PostPosted: 22:15 - 06 Mar 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
Chop it up and make a trike out of it......
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owdamer
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PostPosted: 06:49 - 07 Mar 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
Minky_monkey wrote:
Chop it up and make a trike out of it......


Better still, Just chop it up.
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iCraig
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PostPosted: 07:11 - 07 Mar 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
Hmmmm, if that car was involved in a 40mph collision, I'd hate to see what the carnage'd be like if it was doing 240mph! Shocked
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beatnck
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PostPosted: 09:29 - 07 Mar 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
i wonder if it will be repaired? not sure if it would be financially sound tbh, but then as bugatti make a loss on each one they make it might be different
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Jamie S
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PostPosted: 12:52 - 07 Mar 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
Make it in to the worlds fastest limo? Just ask the Top Gear team to sort it out !
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