As I hit the motorway and put the pedal to the metal, all hell was let loose. Truly, the Veyron sounds like no other car on earth. Phhhheeeeewwwwssssschhhhh. I could only hear the two aluminium intakes directly above my head sucking in the air and I felt thrust to the seat. For a moment I thought that the G force would make my innards tumble out of the tum! As the 1,001 PS and 1,250 Nm kept coming at me relentlessly, I took a quick glance at the speedo, whose needle was nudging 300 km/h. One cannot feel the up-shift of the seven-speed ‘box, the shift time being 150 milliseconds, and the mammoth power and torque give the Grand Sport seamless acceleration. Just imagine that one is motoring along at 270-280 km/h, using only 270 to 280 PS, and has another 700+ at one’s disposal.
The traffic around me was actually travelling in the same direction, but I felt as if they were going backwards. The humongous discs bring the car to a standstill within seconds and create as much G force as on acceleration.
The beauty of the Grand Sport Veyron is that it gives you the luxury of a sedan and performance that is unheard of in a road car. I think nobody will make a car like the Veyron ever again, at least not with an internal combustion engine. Since they are going to make only a limited number of cars, I think these will all become collector’s items.
