Best luxury car outta these 3.... (1 Viewer)

[Tommy_Lamp]

Can't go past a Rolls Royce, but the Bently looks mighty good.

 

[golfstick]

Does the Veyron still have the W16 powerplant (*drools*) or did they scrap it?

The Maybach is around $1 Million which should be more than the Rolls. The Bentley should be around $400K.

 

[RCMasterAA]

Does the Veyron still have the W16 powerplant (*drools*) or did they scrap it?

The Maybach is around $1 Million which should be more than the Rolls. The Bentley should be around $400K.

The Veyron's the one with the 4 small turbos situated around the engine.
As to the cars, although the Rolls Royce Phantom looks like a brick, it's got nice features though I'm sure parking it would be a bitch.

 

[golfstick]

yeah i know about the quad turbo but they were having trouble with the layout of the engine itself, the 2 V8s linked together to make the W16. Did they keep it?

Anyway I think they've kept it. The official Bugatti site (below) has some cool videos and stuff like that. It was essentially a money issue I think. I mean, if they sold all 300 for AU$1.3m, would that necessarily generate a profit given that it is such a unique car to produce?

http://www.bugatti-cars.de/bugatti/flash/?langString=en

 

[Korn]

The Veyron's the one with the 4 small turbos situated around the engine.
As to the cars, although the Rolls Royce Phantom looks like a brick, it's got nice features though I'm sure parking it would be a bitch.

Yeah, but would the owners of these cars be driving them, or would they have a professional driver

 

[RCMasterAA]

Well if I bought such an expensive car, I'd want to drive it myself, not to mention thrash it a bit

 

[DaddyK]

Problem is you can't drive it. The rounded shape becomes highly unstable at speed to the point where it's dangerous to drive because of all the lift it generates - essentially it's a wing on wheels.

WTF the rounded sleek shape keeps in on the ground because the wind hits the grill, goes over the car and over the tail, creating downforce.

 

[Supra]

maybach 62 is the most luxurious...but i really like the phantom...from memory it is featured on the "drop it like its hot" video clip i cant remember. actually i remember reading somewhere that maybach is like made by mercedes as the ultimate luxury car (i.e way above their own S Class so as to compete against bentley and rolls royce)

 

[Korn]

maybach 62 is the most luxurious...but i really like the phantom...from memory it is featured on the "drop it like its hot" video clip i cant remember. actually i remember reading somewhere that maybach is like made by mercedes as the ultimate luxury car (i.e way above their own S Class so as to compete against bentley and rolls royce)

Ur correct on both accounts
Rolls appears in the vid
And Maybach is built by Merc

 

[SashatheMan]

Problem is you can't drive it. The rounded shape becomes highly unstable at speed to the point where it's dangerous to drive because of all the lift it generates - essentially it's a wing on wheels.

and yuor an expert on car designs? and know that this car will flip at high speeds becuase u tested it?

 

[wind]

From what I remember, they'd got the engine done, just not the brakes

I'd take the Maybach Should see the seat articulation and all the gadgets in the back! You can't get bored sitting in the back seats

Doing almost 200km/h there's barely a whisper of noise coming from the car. 6.2m long - parking's going to be a bitch lol

On a side note, cars generally flip because air gets in underneath. Used to happen quite often, especially in Le Mans races; Mark Webber has flipped his car a few times.

Air gets in underneath + speed = wing + somersaults