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Robert Farago
by Robert Farago

Actually, I think this conversion—brought to us by the good people at Ricedexotics.com— took some real balls. The Veylet or Bentron is an automotive middle finger to all those people who view automotive heritage as anything worth noting, protecting or projecting. The question here is . . . who? Nouveau riche, of course. But after that, what? They like the Veyron’s nose but can’t afford the real thing, so figured why not stick it on something “exotic”? And then there’s the question of copyright infringement. VW (Bugatti) and BMW (Bentley) must have scouts roaming the Far East looking for branded knocks offs, so why haven’t they— oh wait. Never mind.

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  • FreedMike FreedMike on Sep 20, 2009

    Bugatti should build a car that looks as good as the Continental GT, versus giving exotics (and now four-doors) the Superfly treatment.

  • Venator Venator on Sep 20, 2009

    FreedMike, Bugatti should build a car in the spirit of the original Bugattis, or even better, just leave that time-honoured name alone and build their techno-monstrosities under a more suitable name. But since VAG owns these brands, they could put a Skoda badge on a Bentley, or a Bugatti badge on a SEAT, and there is nothing we can do about it!

  • FreedMike FreedMike on Sep 20, 2009
    venator : September 20th, 2009 at 3:35 pm FreedMike, Bugatti should build a car in the spirit of the original Bugattis, or even better, just leave that time-honoured name alone and build their techno-monstrosities under a more suitable name. OK, keep in mind this is coming from someone who is by no means a Bugatti-phile, but didn't they make a lot of super-high end cars back in the '30s?
  • Essen Essen on Sep 21, 2009

    That grille looks like a toilet seat.

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