Ok who's the Uboat Commander?

Wonder if the genius that drove it into the lake will sue the towing company for damage in recovery? Dang, those cars may be fast but they sure are ugly....

 

I bet this guy was having trouble selling and decided to ditch it for the insurance money..LOl....

I here it was for sale....

 

With the rear wing raised in the video, don't need to be at certain speed in order to do that?

 

Didn`t anyone notice how they towed this thing out, I would have been loosing my mind, who are these clowns.....wow......straight chains to the tires and rims scratching the back end of the car, to painful to watch.

 

In this Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009, photo, wrecker driver Gilbert Harrison, with MCH Towing, attaches a towing cable to a Bugatti Veyron that was driven into the water near Omega Bay in La Marque, Texas. A man blamed a low-flying pelican and a dropped cell phone after veering his million-dollar sports car off a road and into a salt marsh near Galveston.

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhj4z1iU2QY
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If he'd have accelerated hard enough, could he not have skimmed it across the water like a flat stone?.

Must have been worth a try, surely?.

 

""pelican 1 to pelican 2 do you read me" "roger pel 1 check 6, target in site" " got it pel 2 I'm goin in " "wait pel 1, is it a F-car" "negative pel 2 its a BV " "OK pel 1, hit that!!!!" "Roger I'm goin for the swoop de le lagoon, " OMG pel 1 , nice swoop, meet you back at the dock for a couple bait scraps, roger and out!!!

 

If you've never been to Galveston, you would want to take a bb gun to every pelican that annoyed the crap out of you.

I like this persons reply:

"He was talking on his cell phone? — My, that was one expensive phone call!"

 

+1

When I went to Bondurant there was actually an exercise that proves this. They had us swerve around an obstacle first and then threshold brake while heading towards it the next time around. Braking was a much better option, it wasn't even close.

 

Simply put...
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Salt water....that's not good.

 

quite a video. cant they drain the car and put it back together again? Sure it will have a 'flood title' but it is still Veyron!!!

 

Yeah, like that's the worst of his problems
I can't count the number of times I've driven my Bugatti into a lake saying "at least its not salt water".

 

LOL, the engine probably needs a rebuild since it stopped running after 15 minutes in the water. I think the least of his worries (if he has any car wise...) are a couple of scratches and wheel replacements (rims need replacing every 7500K at the cost of +- us$45000).

 

The assembly line is still running, it is not like the thing is irreplaceable. Bring the right sized check and Volkswagen will build as many as you wish.

 

How would you get a car out of the drink?

 

LA MARQUE, Texas - A man blamed a low-flying pelican and a dropped cell phone for his veering his million-dollar sports car off a road and into a salt marsh near Galveston.

The accident happened about 3 p.m. Wednesday on the frontage road of Interstate 45 northbound in La Marque, about 35 miles southeast of Houston.

The Lufkin, Texas, man told of driving his luxury, French-built Bugatti Veyron when the bird distracted him, said La Marque police Lt. Greg Gilchrist.

The motorist dropped his cell phone, reached to pick it up and veered off the road and into the salt marsh. The car was half-submerged in the brine about 20 feet from the road when police arrived.

Gilchrist said he doesn't know if the car was salvageable, but in his words, "Salt water isn't good for anything." He says the man, whose identity hasn't been released, was not injured.

Celebrity driver
The police declined to release the driver's name, although the incident has drawn a great deal of attention on his vehicle.

The Houston Chronicle reported the Texan has become something of a celebrity. He reportedly told the Texas City wrecker driver who towed his car that California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger called him Wednesday, along with several other celebrities.

“He said he was getting so many calls that he finally stopped answering his phone,” said wrecker driver Gilbert Harrison of MCH Truck and Auto, which is storing the car.

But Harrison said the driver seemed to take his very expensive mistake in stride.

“He was calm,” Harrison told the Chronicle. “If it had been me, I'd have been cussing, but he was calm. I imagine inside he was probably pretty upset.”

The Bugatti Veyron is the fastest and most expensive production car in the world.

A 2006 Bugatti Veyron was recently offered for sale in Jonesboro, Ark., for $1.25 million.

 

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091113/ap_on_fe_st/us_odd_lagoon_bugatti

Ouch! More importantly why is there a Veyron in Arkansas?

 

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091113/ap_on_fe_st/us_odd_lagoon_bugatti

Cellphones and Exotics dont mix

 

I read in another thread that the owner of the Bug also owned the Eddie griffin Enzo. He has a body shop and am sure would be trying to do the fix himself.

 

I'm confused by the Arkansas comment. And there's a discussion in the Texas thread about this.

 

Sorry, but there are already two other threads on it.

 

Ouch!

 

I bet the Tow guy has towed many of them!!! NOT!!!