A Texas man drove his $1 million dollar luxury car into the marshes. He blamed a low-flying pelican and the fact that he dropped his cellular phone for his veer off the road and into the marsh. It isn’t clear what damages the sports car has but it will be sure to come with a hefty price tag that is most likely more than a year’s worth of income for many of us. And it will most likely need to return to France in order to be repaired properly.

The world’s fastest and most expensive caris the French Bugatti Veyron. The luxury car can reach up to 253 mph. The sports luxury car has a 16 cylinder engine that produces 1001 horsepower. Which means Bugatti’s have the power to go from zero to 60 miles per hour in three seconds and zero to 180 in 14 seconds.

The price tag is anywhere in the $1.2 million range. This car makes James Bond’s car look like a Chevy Malibu in contrast. Besides being incredibly costly this is an awesome car. I don’t pretend to know much about cars but I did read a lot of mumbo jumbo about pistons and cylinders and horsepower multiplied by something equals so many liters of gas and on and on and on.

All I have to say is that you don’t have to know much or even understand to know that this is a magnificent machine. But one thing that was easy to understand is that engines get more power when there is more air in the cylinders. So this car has turbochargers that let the engine to remain solid but gives it so much more power because there’s more air being pumped into the cylinders on each intake stroke.

So turbocharging allows you the ability to decrease the size of the engine from 16 liters to 8 liters. In order to make the car work well there is a gigantic radiator to manage the waste heat burning 1.33 gallons of gasoline per minute. The luxury car also has seven gears along with a “paddle-driven, computer controlled shifting system.”

Now for the imperative part that the owner apparently forgot to concentrate on: how to drive it. He must have been flying unbelievably fast when a bird got in the way so he decided to drive into a marsh instead of hitting the bird. It probably would have been better to hit the bird than to drive your entire car into the water. The water will have messed up everything instead of just the windshield or part of the hood.

It was in water up to about the windows. That means the engine, part of the interior, the stereo system and everything would have been damp and messed up. Like I said taking out the bird would have been the better choice; specially since pelicans are in anything but short supply.

The Bugatti Veyron is an absolutely beautiful luxury car. The French are geniuses when it comes to the manufacturing, functioning, and sleekness of the car. No wonder it’s positioned No. 1 for the fastest and most pricey car. It is supreme when it comes to luxury cars.
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Diane Johnson graduated with a Bachelor of Science from the University of Utah and enjoys writing about current events, politics, distance learning, online education, and the office.
Diane Johnson earned a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from the University of Utah. She likes to write about the news, politics, college degrees, continuing online education, and the college experience.

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