The all-new, V8-powered BMW M3 is one hot ride, and 414 HP can leave a lot of rubber behind. Yet while the M3 is one of the most highly anticipated vehicles on the road, it doesn't even hold a candle to the quad-turbo, 16-cylinder, 1,001 HP Bugatti Veyron. The Veyron is a true supercar that costs a cool $1.4 million, hits 60 mph in less than three seconds, and has a limited production run of a few hundred copies. Regardless of the obvious disparity between the two cars, someone just had to pit the two against one another in a race and put the video on YouTube. The video starts with the M3 understeering through a corner and doing a series of figure eights, and it ends with the Bimmer taking its medicine. The driver of the Veyron even gave the poor sap in the M3 a head start, yet the margin of victory was wide. If you're like us and interested in seeing the carnage even when you know the outcome, check out the short video after the jump.
[Source: YouTube]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 4)
blogged to death @ Oct 3rd 2007 8:22PM
The white smoke burnouts the M3 was doing was oversteer powerslides - not understeer (two very different meanings).
epp_b @ Oct 3rd 2007 9:45PM
C'mon, Autoblog, of all publications, I would surely expect you to get this right. Even the slightest of petrol-heads knows the difference between understeer and oversteer.
Andrew @ Oct 4th 2007 9:30AM
I mean....COME ON....how do you not know the difference between the two if you're writing articles for an automotive blog?! Not to mention the fact that wasn't figure 8's, that was "help, I don't know how to sustain a drift". That was a class A high-school donut.
I track an E46 M3, it's one of the easiest cars to drift that I've ever driven.
dru.calhoun @ Oct 3rd 2007 8:26PM
Oh my that's awesome, the Bugatti easily beat that crappy BMW
AR @ Oct 3rd 2007 9:30PM
Right on. I was seriously thinking about the new M3 as an everyday beater; plus 3-5 for trackdays: never know how many you're going to wreck. I guess now I'm gonna get two-three Veyrons. They're awesome! I'm gonna write the check as soon as I finish typing this message.
fbxcore @ Oct 3rd 2007 10:52PM
Yeah, I'll just drive my veyron to work every day, considering the dependability of a car that puts out 1k horsepower, that sounds like a grand idea!
mxrz @ Oct 3rd 2007 11:57PM
Considering the Veyron had to pass the same stress tests as any other VAG car, there would be nothing wrong with driving it to work everyday. While VWs are not exactly the most dependable cars on the market, the Veyron is nothing like most, fragile exotics out there... You're just assuming too much.
dutch @ Oct 4th 2007 12:24AM
I bet it'd be a completely different story if this was a twisty track
RACER X @ Oct 4th 2007 1:03AM
And you are doing the exact same thing assuming that it would be completely reliable as a daily driven car.
Not that it matters since most of them will probably never see more than 30,000 miles.
Shipey @ Oct 4th 2007 9:14AM
Yeah, if the track was twisty the Veyron would've had to be careful not to blow the M3 into the guardrail with it's air stream as it passed.
danms6 @ Oct 4th 2007 9:26AM
dutch-
Because the M3 would beat the million dollar car with excellent track performance on twisties? Read up before you post this crap.
Andrew @ Oct 4th 2007 9:33AM
It's safe to assume the Veyron would kill the M3, even in the twisties.
Timsvtgen1 @ Oct 3rd 2007 8:51PM
OK. Show of hands- Who didn't see that coming?
Sandeep @ Oct 3rd 2007 8:53PM
I didn't think the bimmer would even get the initial headstart, but I guess that ties into what I've read about the Veyron not being able to put all its power down to the pavement at full throttle.
chris @ Oct 3rd 2007 9:26PM
Sandeep, the driver of the Veyron gave the M3 a headstart on purpose to further emphasize the "fast car vs very fast car thing" that Top Gear did years ago with a McLaren F1 against an R33 Skyline GT-R if I remember correctly. There's a 0-300 km/h video of a Veyron on YouTube, this among many others will show you that the Bugatti has absolutely no problems accelerating from a standstill with full throttle.
zamafir @ Oct 3rd 2007 11:43PM
meh, it reminds me of the old adage regarding the McLaren F1:
"... despite setting off 10 seconds after the McLaren – when the F1 is already travelling at 130mph – the Bugatti reaches 200mph at exactly the same time as the F1. "
nagmashot @ Oct 4th 2007 1:46AM
@sandeep
2.5s 0-60mph with a 2to 1001hp car means lot of traction with no real problem to get the power to the ground..
MikeW @ Oct 4th 2007 9:50PM
That old adage was thoroughly debunked.
Chris @ Oct 3rd 2007 9:09PM
Understeer? LOL.
Poe @ Oct 3rd 2007 9:20PM
Wow... put that one on the cover of "Duh!" magazine.
Considering you can buy TWENTY-EIGHT (28) new M3's for the $1.4 million that Bugatti costs, I'd say it did pretty good.