I was entranced watching last night's Top Gear by the "race" between a Cessna light aircraft and the Bugatti Veyron.
That car is an engineering tour-de-force! There can't possibly be a petrolhead anywhere on the planet who wouldn't want to get behind the wheel of one, definitely including me...However, I don't think it should have been called a Bugatti.
I can forgive the fact that it's been made by Volkswagen, but what I have a problem with is the look of the thing. In their illustrious past, the "real" Bugatti company gave us the Type 57 Atlantique - surely one of the most beautiful cars there has ever been or will ever be. This wunderwagen is hideously ugly.
Actually, I reckon that VW have missed a chance here - they could have used one of the other brand names they own and proved for once and for all that Germans DO have a sense of humour. Skoda Veyron, anyone?!!