Nigel Mansell

[Guest Sabre]

1.44.

 

2 seconds faster than Damon Hill.

[Guest DanTheDaggerman]

What about that Bugatti though? Blimey!

 

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[Guest Sabre]

What about that Bugatti though? Blimey!

 

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That was a tad amazing.

[Guest Jack Bauer]

I have one of those cars.

[charlie clown]

I've got two.

[Toe]

Mansell is awesome in a car.

 

The Bugatti. :eek:

 

Wish Stig had taken it round the track. Perhaps the 5 million quid a car put them off but the he did drive it in France..

[Guz]

I missed the first half of the program, did they mention a possible retail price? Close to a million mark?

[Guest Jack Bauer]

£800,000 for the Bugatti I think.

[BDB]

1 million euro is the bugatti price tag..

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2 seconds faster than Damon Hill.

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Damons was in the wet as I recall. but fairplay to nige. and go on the grand prix legends series.

[Guest Sabre]

1 million euro is the bugatti price tag.. 

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Damons was in the wet as I recall.  but fairplay to nige.  and go on the grand prix legends series.

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Na, it was the other fella that drove in the wet...

[DanielS]

1 million euro is the bugatti price tag.. 

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Damons was in the wet as I recall.  but fairplay to nige.  and go on the grand prix legends series.

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Hill's was definitely a dry lap. Mansell was just his ultra-smooth driving self. People in the UK forget how brilliant a driver Mansell is just because he's a boring b*****d.

[Maldini]

Has anyone found out who The Stig is yet?

[Tosh]

Perry McCarthy was black Stig

 

Ben Collins is believed to be white Stig

 

ere

Edited December 12, 2005 by Tosh

[Mike]

mansell's the fastest driver we've ever had

[Coyler]

I caught just the very end of it when they were saying that because it was built as a stg£5m technical exercise it'd probably be the best car they'll ever get to drive in their lifetimes, the Bugatti.

 

What made it so amazing, like, what did they do with it?

 

I was raging for missing it, it was like seeing Clarkson's big stupid face in clown make-up going ?Woooowwww, kids, they'll never let us show that again!?

[DanielS]

I caught just the very end of it when they were saying that because it was built as a stg£5m technical exercise it'd probably be the best car they'll ever get to drive in their lifetimes, the Bugatti.

 

What made it so amazing, like, what did they do with it?

 

I was raging for missing it, it was like seeing Clarkson's big stupid face in clown make-up going ?Woooowwww, kids, they'll never let us show that again!?

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There are usually repeats through the week and possible downloads on the bbc site, but basically, VW have created a 1000bhp super car that is capable of 400kmh. The engineering tasks implicit in getting that to work are akin to what the Brits and French did for Concorde i.e Go above and beyond the recognised limitations of conventional thinking in the specific industry. The gearbox was used as an example: It has to be better at handling more power than an F1 gearbox, last 10-15 years instead of just the usual 4 hours an F1 box ahs to do and also weigh as little as possible.

Its a giant leap forward in what's possible, but given the safety and environmental issues that are dictating the progress of car design it is probably a leap in a soon to be prohibited direction.

Edited December 12, 2005 by DanielS

[ManxRed]

I caught just the very end of it when they were saying that because it was built as a stg£5m technical exercise it'd probably be the best car they'll ever get to drive in their lifetimes, the Bugatti.

 

What made it so amazing, like, what did they do with it?

 

I was raging for missing it, it was like seeing Clarkson's big stupid face in clown make-up going ?Woooowwww, kids, they'll never let us show that again!?

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Its repeated on Tuesday evenings I think.

 

Definitely worth watching, that is one hell of a car.

[Mike]

not as fast as a serpent coupe though

[The Hitman]

I wonder how fast Alonso or Schumacher could do it.

[Coyler]

There are usually repeats through the week and possible downloads on the bbc site, but basically, VW have created a 1000bhp super car that is capable of 400kmh.

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Holy schlong. They didn't let one of them drive it that fast, did they?

[Maldini]

Holy schlong. They didn't let one of them drive it that fast, did they?

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Yeah, Hammond and the hairy guy drove it back to the factory from London with a police escort and free reign on the motorways, Clarkson raced them on a Raleigh ten-speed. Needless to say Clarkson won.

[Kurt]

Yeah, Hammond and the hairy guy drove it back to the factory from London with a police escort and free reign on the motorways, Clarkson raced them on a Raleigh ten-speed. Needless to say Clarkson won.

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Sturmey Archer gears.. or Shimano?

[ManxRed]

I think they were Sturmey Archer. He had to buy the bike himself first using less than £30. It had to undergo several 'tests' on the way but by the end it had disintegrated.

[DanielS]

Holy schlong. They didn't let one of them drive it that fast, did they?

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It has been "limited" to 252mph anyway and no, they didn't let any of them drive it anywhere near that. Although Clarkson did get from Dijon to Calais at a helluva lick...

[Woodsyla]

0-60 in 2.5 seconds