Veyron owner tries to drive on water vis a vis Knight Rider

Jokerzwild · Nov 12, 2009, 10:52 AM

Damnit I wanted to see it happen! Haha... that is sad though, I wonder if it's totalled or if they can save the car?

nrs421 · Nov 12, 2009, 10:58 AM

probably a complete write off.

edit: did anyone notice the spoilers. they are both up. I think they deploy at 200+ km/h.

SubCog · Nov 12, 2009, 11:31 AM

I was told that the Veyron could drive on water.

SteadVéx · Nov 12, 2009, 11:51 AM

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Originally Posted by nrs421

probably a complete write off.

edit: did anyone notice the spoilers. they are both up. I think they deploy at 200+ km/h.

whenver i read 200kmp i always think, woah, thats fast, then realise its just 125mph and that most cars built these days can go that fast, still, doesn't look like the right kinda place to be doing that speed!

i'd like to hear the conversation explaining what happened to the police officer

**MyTMouse** · Nov 12, 2009, 12:37 PM

Hmmm...a very wealthy stupid person....

does anyone have their contact info? I have some magic beans to sell them

seriously though

That car is freaking EXPENSIVE...I can't believe anyone who owns one would do something stupid like that

nrs421 · Nov 12, 2009, 12:40 PM

true but if you can afford a $2 million dollar car I doubt you'd care when it crashed. Just go out and get a new one with the insurance money.

**MyTMouse** · Nov 12, 2009, 03:33 PM

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Originally Posted by nrs421

true but if you can afford a $2 million dollar car I doubt you'd care when it crashed. Just go out and get a new one with the insurance money.

I don't know about that...even if I had $100 million to my name I'd still be ticked off to ruin that much money

Elysian · Nov 12, 2009, 03:37 PM

It happened in Texas too

DeathKnight · Nov 12, 2009, 03:38 PM

Just another fool in a car they don't know how to drive.

SteadVéx · Nov 12, 2009, 05:16 PM

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Originally Posted by DeathKnight

Just another fool in a car they don't know how to drive.

maybe theres a reason the majority of us don't buy cars this powerful, u know, apart from the price!

nrs421 · Nov 13, 2009, 08:04 AM

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Originally Posted by SteadVéx

maybe theres a reason the majority of us don't buy cars this powerful, u know, apart from the price!

apart from the price? what planet are you on? everyone of us would buy that car if we could afford it.

**MyTMouse** · Nov 13, 2009, 02:45 PM

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Originally Posted by nrs421

apart from the price? what planet are you on? everyone of us would buy that car if we could afford it.

Not me, speed doesn't interest me because 1) I don't speed 2) there's nowhere I could drive really fast even if I wanted to.

There's sexier cars out there...I think the Veyron is kinda fugly

I would get a fancy Mercedes of some sort

logical · Nov 14, 2009, 05:05 AM

The story if anyone cares:

http://www.galvestondailynews.com/st...2e1da427373dfb

nrs421 · Nov 14, 2009, 05:42 AM

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About 3 p.m. a low-flying pelican distracted him as he traveled north on Interstate 45 just south of the hurricane levee near Omega Bay.

The man jerked the wheel, dropped his cell phone, and the car’s front tire left the frontage road and entered a muddy patch, which foiled his attempt to maneuver away from the lagoon.

sure it was the pelican. bastard was talking on the cell phone. I am curious about why a guy with a $2 million dollar car not have a hands free device.

Martin3 · Nov 14, 2009, 07:45 AM

There's was no pelican

He probably just turned his wheel when he leaned over to pick up the cell phone.

Kortan · Nov 14, 2009, 09:15 AM

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Originally Posted by nrs421

probably a complete write off.

edit: did anyone notice the spoilers. they are both up. I think they deploy at 200+ km/h.

If I remember Top Gear's review correctly, the spoiler must be brought up manually while the car is stopped.

nrs421 · Nov 14, 2009, 09:58 AM

This is what really happened.

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Being in the automotive industry gets us perks like driving cars that we normally wouldn't be able to get our hands on (read: buy).

For various reasons, some get to try more cars than the others. But there is one Holy Grail we're all dying to reach and that is the speed rocket 2006 Bugatti Veyron, a technological miracle engineered by Volkswagen.

Little wonder that our jaws hit the floor when we saw this video footage of a man accidentally driving the world's most expensive street-legal car into the shallow waters of a marsh.

A Texan driver was in the Bugatti Veyron - one of the reportedly 15 in the US - and claimed that a killer pelican had swooped too low and caused him to swerve into the saltwaters, according to reports.

According to the student who filmed the footage, the Bugatti was travelling at the speed limit whem it veered off and temporarily created a wall of water.

The video, filmed by a medical school student, Joe Garza, in Galvenston, Texas, was on his way to get groceries when the unthinkable happened, CSMonitor.com reported.

"We saw the car and were just like 'wow,' so I started recording it and sure enough, after that, he just veered off," Garza told CSMonitor.com in a phone interview.

Garza told CSMonitor.com his friend had to "slow down in order to stick with" the Veyron so it was probably travelling at around 40mph (around 64kph) or so.

The careless driver has somewhat become a celebrity - with California governor Arnold Schwarznegger calling him, along with other celebrities.
According to the Houston Chronicle, the driver is a collector of exotic cars and had just purchased the Veyron last month for US$1.25 million (S$1.737 million). The 1001bhp hypercar had just about done 800 kilometres when it decided to go for a mudbath.

When contacted by the Houston Chronicle, the dealer who sold the car said he believed the $1.25 million Bugatti will be a total write-off.

Gilbert Harrison, the wrecker driver who is currently storing the car, said the man was very "calm" and seemed to accept his very expensive mistake. If he had been the driver, he would have been cursing, said Harrison.

The man's handphone had slipped out of the car's centre console and he reached to retrieve it from the floorboard, Houston Chronicle reported.
When he sat up, he was startled by a pelican flying low alongside the Bugatti and the front tyre subsequently strayed onto the shoulder of the road.

The man couldn't regain control, the police told Houston Chronicle. There were no indications that the driver was speeding.

Shamash · Nov 14, 2009, 10:30 AM

I wonder if the car was insured for the right value...

And other thing, if 200 kph doesn't appear so fast, try a crash in 100 kph. Memories for a long time. I guarantee it.

DorXtar · Nov 14, 2009, 01:20 PM

The guy is from Texis. Real men don't use anything hands-free. Real men always use their hands.

nrs421 · Nov 14, 2009, 07:09 PM

Mahjik · Nov 15, 2009, 02:31 PM

I'm waiting for someone to edit the video and put some oversized bird flying at the car.

gamefoo21 · Nov 16, 2009, 01:45 AM

1st vid:

This video has been removed by the user.

2nd vid:

This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Joe M Garza.

Ehhhh? Do I get the feeling someone is trying to cover their bogus story and great shame...

Martin3 · Nov 16, 2009, 06:15 AM

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Originally Posted by gamefoo21

1st vid:

This video has been removed by the user.

2nd vid:

This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Joe M Garza.

Ehhhh? Do I get the feeling someone is trying to cover their bogus story and great shame...

When the story first broke the vids were getting pulled down pretty fast also.
The owner of the veyron also owns a company that buys totaled super cars from insurances companies to restore them. This whole thing smells like an insurance scam. And all the videos are messing up his scam.

night · Nov 16, 2009, 02:28 PM

omfg.
this was literally 10min from me. if i saw that car on the road i would have shat myself and followed it home.
and i didn't think there were people around here with that much money.

edit: here is our local forum talking about it. i'm still digging through, might be some interesting info.

early post was this i'm not sure is true:

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I like the comments, he wanted to collect insurance money, do people not realize that these cars are not insured through a company, they are self insured, this guy just lost and it sucks,

edit #2

edit #3

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The car legally belongs to Loyd Gillespie owner of Gellespie Lumber. Andy House is a middle man for Gellespie that rebuilds wrecked cars for Gillespie who buys the to resale as investments. Andy wasn't supposed to be in the day he wrecked it. He drove it around everywhere telling people it was his. He was basically lying. The car is registered to Gileespie and not to House. Even though the car was being offered through Performance Auto's it was not House's car

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I spoke to a person today who knows the guy. Long story short his insurance is not paying for the damages and bugatti is not going to give him any parts. He just used this to boost business. The person also said that the guy that did this is a dick and has screwed many people over. Karma at its best I guess.

*and*

KickAssCop · Nov 16, 2009, 10:44 PM

Owned...

NEODARK · Nov 17, 2009, 12:14 PM

I don't see how that's a total write-off.

But, it was priceless when then junker "rinsed" his hands in the muddy water to turn the wheel.

Perky McGiggles · Nov 17, 2009, 12:42 PM

"That will be mine one day"
"What is it?"
"Pretty sure it's a lambo, dude..."

Mahjik · Nov 18, 2009, 09:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Mahjik

I'm waiting for someone to edit the video and put some oversized bird flying at the car.

and here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1GfTFx3_nc

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Nov 12, 2009, 10:52 AM	#2
Jokerzwild Rage3D Veteran Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 5,658	Damnit I wanted to see it happen! Haha... that is sad though, I wonder if it's totalled or if they can save the car? __________________ "Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth." - Oscar Wilde

Nov 12, 2009, 10:58 AM	#3
nrs421 Rage3D Veteran Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Toronto Posts: 2,185	probably a complete write off. edit: did anyone notice the spoilers. they are both up. I think they deploy at 200+ km/h. Last edited by nrs421 : Nov 12, 2009 at 11:04 AM.

Nov 12, 2009, 12:37 PM	#6
MyTMouse Console Forumas Modamus Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: GTA (Southern Ontario) Posts: 6,729	Hmmm...a very wealthy stupid person.... does anyone have their contact info? I have some magic beans to sell them seriously though That car is freaking EXPENSIVE...I can't believe anyone who owns one would do something stupid like that

Nov 12, 2009, 12:40 PM	#7
nrs421 Rage3D Veteran Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Toronto Posts: 2,185	true but if you can afford a $2 million dollar car I doubt you'd care when it crashed. Just go out and get a new one with the insurance money.

Nov 12, 2009, 03:37 PM	#9
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Shamash Axel of Evil Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Under the Northern Lights Posts: 3,683	I wonder if the car was insured for the right value... And other thing, if 200 kph doesn't appear so fast, try a crash in 100 kph. Memories for a long time. I guarantee it. __________________ Ignorance would be Bliss

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Mahjik Rage3D Veteran Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Midwest Posts: 2,130	I'm waiting for someone to edit the video and put some oversized bird flying at the car.

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