Ask the Best and Brightest: Bugatti Veyron or a McLaren F1
All this talk about the Porsche Panamera over the weekend (review to follow, eventually) had me thinking about automotive desirability. I reckon when you get to a certain price point, all rational considerations disappear in a cloud of Franklins. Anyone who buys a car for over $100,000 or so owns at least another two or five or twelve other vehicles. So they’re not bothered about any one car’s resale value or reliability. Vehicle choice is purely a question of taste. The higher up you go in this pistonhead pantheon, the more true this becomes. So, while anyone contemplating this choice of whips could probably buy both, I’m interested to see which way our Best and Brightest falls. If you had to put one of these in your garage, would you opt for the world’s fastest Bug or the gold-plated Big Mac?
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If I understand the specifications correctly, neither of these has a stick shift, and so neither are for me.
The hell with the rules, I'll take both. and the Veyron being in Grand Sport Mode.
F1. Car that was designed and engineered on drawing board, by hand. Not by computers. "One man's vision" cars have always been extraordinary.