View Full Version : Bugatti Veyron in the lake!!!!
erikz 28
11-13-2009, 01:03 AM
Happened in Texas. Apparently a low flying pelican was to blame.
http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/The-Galveston-County-Daily-News/photo//091113/480/e41ba5427b314babb6e6e4b05bc997ea//s:/ap/20091113/ap_on_fe_st/us_odd_lagoon_bugatti
Beegs
11-13-2009, 03:48 AM
I wonder if that kid knows what he is hooking?
Romulus
11-13-2009, 06:32 AM
I call dibs on the wing!
89 RS
11-13-2009, 07:10 AM
Whoops...:_paranoid
Roadster Shop
11-13-2009, 07:27 AM
You would think the car could also float for that kind of money!
Doesn't that wing only move to that height when approaching ludicrous speed? (gratuitous Spaceballs reference, lol)
texas56
11-13-2009, 07:33 AM
You would think the car could also float for that kind of money!
Same thing my ole man said. This happend about 10 minutes from our shop. Very Very small town. Actually crazy it was even on the road in this area.
erikz 28
11-13-2009, 10:17 AM
Doesn't that wing only move to that height when approaching ludicrous speed? (gratuitous Spaceballs reference, lol)
That's what I thought too. Seems like he's going to get a fat insurance check.
GregWeld
11-13-2009, 10:22 AM
Maybe he could have used some cash for "skills" before he bought it?
If I'm the insurance guy - I deny the claim due to negligence... LOL
Ya just can't fix stupid.
GregWeld
11-13-2009, 10:23 AM
They just aired the video on CNBC.... Now this fool is a world famous fool.
:bow:
Have fun explaining that to the insurance guy. I would also call negligence and tell him he's f'd. Should be driving a Yugo. With training wheels.:drive: :brix:
erikz 28
11-13-2009, 10:30 AM
Doesn't full coverage cover negligence?
Doesn't full coverage cover negligence?
It might. But it shouldn't.
Ketzer
11-13-2009, 11:19 AM
I bet you cant even get a normal auto policy for that. Like the car, I'm sure its some sort of exclusive rider deal on his personal insurance. Seems like Clarkson spent about thirty minutes on the car phone during a TG episode spelling B-u-g-a-t-t-i...
chr2002ca
11-13-2009, 11:38 AM
To his next passenger(if he ever has one), "I'd like to mention that, in the case of a water landing, a flotation device is located beneath your seat."
Similar event. I sold my uncle a mint '92 300Z about 15 years ago. He lives in the Florida Keys. About 4 months after purchase he was showing his friend how fast it would go after dinner and some wine(and a few hits on god knows what). I guess he got going pretty good down a long straight away on one of the islands and was too high to remember where the road actually ended and managed to hit the brakes too late to keep it from sliding off the end of the road, down a boat ramp, and out into the warm clear waters of the Atlantic Ocean. It's fortunate the marine patrol wasn't around to write him a ticket for crushing lobster. Definitely a wonderful family joke now.
z4me69
11-13-2009, 11:39 AM
honey i'm going to give the car a bath lol
GregWeld
11-13-2009, 12:43 PM
$100 says he told perfect strangers that he owned a BV.... Same $100 says that the DB doesn't mention it anymore.... 'cause now he has to say... :rolleyes: "yeah that was me"....
What a DB.
Romulus
11-13-2009, 01:03 PM
Doesn't that wing only move to that height when approaching ludicrous speed? (gratuitous Spaceballs reference, lol)
We can't stop - it's toooo daaaanngerous.... there's a low flying pelican ahead. :rofl:
89 RS
11-13-2009, 02:23 PM
Doesn't that wing only move to that height when approaching ludicrous speed? (gratuitous Spaceballs reference, lol)
Or is it hyperactive speed?? :lol: ...love the Spaceballs reference Scott
James OLC
11-13-2009, 03:02 PM
Tough to explain this...
Video of the Veyron driving into the lake (http://jalopnik.com/5404403/)... nope... no pelicans...
(warning - swearing at the end of the video)
:faint:
Hey buddy... it's your insurance company calling... they have bad news...
BBC71Nova
11-13-2009, 03:34 PM
Oh snap! Gotta love this new "connected" environment we live in :eek:
John
Nvrenuf
11-13-2009, 03:39 PM
wow. wow. wow. What can one say? He wasn't even going that fast. Thats just insane. I can't believe there's actually a vid of it.
GregWeld
11-13-2009, 03:51 PM
I'll stand by my earlier statement -- a total DB!
gearheads78
11-13-2009, 06:27 PM
http://www.dfwstangs.net/forums/showthread.php?t=401771
chicane
11-13-2009, 06:40 PM
Tough to explain this...
Video of the Veyron driving into the lake (http://jalopnik.com/5404403/)... nope... no pelicans...
(warning - swearing at the end of the video)
:faint:
Hey buddy... it's your insurance company calling... they have bad news...
"One of these days... that will be mine. I think it's a Lambo..."
Nvrenuf
11-14-2009, 03:10 PM
"One of these days... that will be mine. I think it's a Lambo..."
I caught that and laughed pretty hard. Yeah, a lambo..... X 10
Steve1968LS2
11-14-2009, 04:21 PM
Doesn't that wing only move to that height when approaching ludicrous speed? (gratuitous Spaceballs reference, lol)
I thought you had to be going plaid?
http://www.dfwstangs.net/forums/showthread.php?t=401771
I just suffered through all three pages of this thread (the link above). What a difference in people. I am so glad that this forum is not like that forum.
The driver of the Veyron had a total brain fart of some sort. I would go hide in a cave if I did something like that.
BlackenedRR
11-14-2009, 05:11 PM
I read on another forum that the driver is the guy who fixed and sold the Enzo the Eddie Griffin wrecked a few years back. Guess he makes a living by fixing and selling wrecked exotics, so we know what his next big job is...
phillym5
11-14-2009, 06:41 PM
I just suffered through all three pages of this thread (the link above). What a difference in people. I am so glad that this forum is not like that forum.
The driver of the Veyron had a total brain fart of some sort. I would go hide in a cave if I did something like that.
My friend is friends with the guy who sold him the car... apparently he paid 1.1 for the car.. then insured it for 2 mil a week before he drove it into the lake. Before the video surfaced... he was claiming a crane or seagals or something made him veer off the road.:_paranoid
gearheads78
11-14-2009, 07:22 PM
I just suffered through all three pages of this thread (the link above). What a difference in people. I am so glad that this forum is not like that forum.
The driver of the Veyron had a total brain fart of some sort. I would go hide in a cave if I did something like that.
Its a different crowd for sure but it one of the best sites for local race scene. I used to have a small tire heads up car and a lot of DFW racers are there.
Rybar
11-15-2009, 09:28 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32yyvmlGOdo
32yyvmlGOdo
Its a different crowd for sure but it one of the best sites for local race scene. I used to have a small tire heads up car and a lot of DFW racers are there.
And I can appreciate the differences. In fact I wish there was one here for our local track. Maybe there is and I just have not found it yet?:cheers:
GregWeld
11-15-2009, 01:44 PM
The whole deal smells of insurance fraud...
69496
11-15-2009, 06:51 PM
That video is going to kill this guy. He is going to have a tough battle trying to get insurance to pay for this. Of all the threads I have read about this and the guy it sounds like he is a exotic car sales man and repair. Well even though he is around them I don't see him affording cars like this doing that. Reality is going to hit home with this guy. I believe in karma and it catches up to everyone.
DRJDVM's '69
11-16-2009, 05:30 PM
Video got removed..WTF?
I guess if you can own one of those you have some big dollar lawyers on retainer....
In the story online it said "he dropped his cellphone and "....so in other words the guys was distracted on the phone or texting or whatever, while driving a 1.1 million dollar car....dumbass
On Top Gear, Clarkson said something along the lines of the fact that it cost like 3 million to build the car but they sell for 2 million.....its purely an exercise on enginnering a car to that degree..... just to say they can do it.
GregWeld
11-16-2009, 05:35 PM
The DB most likely is selling the rights to the video --- or got a payoff agreement to stifle it from the B.V. driver...
YouTube says:
This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Joe M Garza.
COYBILT
11-16-2009, 08:00 PM
The car always looked like a boat. I always thought it would do well in a lake.
RECOVERY ROOM
11-17-2009, 06:28 AM
Now it's a nice parts car
conekiller13
11-17-2009, 10:58 AM
The video still plays here:
http://jalopnik.com/5404403/
DRJDVM's '69
11-17-2009, 12:28 PM
Saw the video now...that is awesome.
Its one thing to lose it driving it hard but that guy was just cruising along and veered off the road.....low flying bird my ass.....
R67Chevelle
11-17-2009, 12:52 PM
I would be willing to bet this is insurance fraud.... Very sad story of a very nice car becoming a boat because of some turd.... I bet he spilled his McDonalds coffee and now has a lawsuit with McD's and the insurance company...:(
What a messed up world....
Blessings,
AMS
BBC71Nova
11-17-2009, 02:27 PM
Too bad it had to turn into a salt water yacht cause I was thinking there is one awesome crate engine available for a swap :D
The video still plays here:
http://jalopnik.com/5404403/
One of the guys in this recording says he will own a lambo like that one day...hmmmmmmmmmmmmm
GregWeld
11-17-2009, 03:23 PM
Yeah -- He's probably right! He'll buy a "lambo" with the money he hammers the Veyron bozo for to take down his video of him deliberately driving into the lake...
:rofl:
My understanding - or at least what I've read - he paid 1.1 for the BV and insured it for 2 million... I would "ass ume" that it was an agreed value policy. Maybe he hoped to make a nice little "gain"?
chr2002ca
11-17-2009, 03:24 PM
That looks deliberate to me. He had just exited the main road for that side road and from there it was such a smooth and gradual turn into the lake with no attempt to correct. How convenient that there were no rocks at the entry point to cause a collision, that the water was shallow enough to not cause drowning, and that it was salt water(perfect for a 'total loss' claim). I can't imagine that a guy that could afford one of those would try something like insurance fraud, but you never know. There are several for sale in the US right now, so maybe he thought he couldn't sell it quickly or recoup the full cost of the car.
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