After the numerous reports we've brought you about the wealth of Bugatti Veyrons to be found in the United Arab Emirates, it should hardly come as any big surprise that when Top Gear magazine turned up in the capital Abu Dhabi, it had no trouble finding one for a photo shoot. In fact it didn't find just one, but three examples of the million-dollar supercar, with reclusive owners willing to hand over the keys to the British magazine.
Nor were these any run-of-the-mill Veyrons, either. Any true gearhead would know that the Veyron typically comes in two-tone paintjobs, but a few have left the factory in Molsheim with monotone tints, like the all-red example we reported on previously. That one, or one just like it, was one of the vehicles which the Abu Dhabi Tourism Authority tracked down for TG, along with an all-white example and the extremely exclusive Pur Sang bare-aluminum-and-carbon edition spotted in the emirate previously. It's not every day that you see three Veyrons in the same place – let alone together with The Stig and, reportedly, a Koenigsegg CCX as well – but if it were to happen anywhere, the UAE seems to be the place. Thanks to all who tipped in!
[Source: PassatWorld]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
Cole Mitguard @ May 21st 2008 6:39PM
I put in my request last week... to review for my college newspaper... maybe if I get lucky they'll send me one... if only I went to college in Dubai, then they would know I meant business.
David Naylor @ May 22nd 2008 9:51AM
Laughing out loud.
Also: I hope they put that Veyron vs CCX in the upcoming TV series!
Dan @ May 21st 2008 6:46PM
Remember while you slobber that these were paid for with your money via $130/barrel oil.
That is all.
rouse42 @ May 21st 2008 6:52PM
yeah the UAE only produces 2.65 million barrels of crude per day.
there only making like a 3rd of a billion a day over there.
some of those guys could just have a veyron for everyday of the year.
psarhjinian @ May 21st 2008 8:51PM
The US gets most of it's oil from Canada, and the last time I was in Calgary, I didn't see a single Veyron.
psarhjinian @ May 21st 2008 8:52PM
Correction: not most of it's oil, but it's largest supplier thereof.
Garibaldi @ May 22nd 2008 6:21AM
That was after the US and UK sucked the oil out for themselves.
shehzad @ May 21st 2008 10:53PM
Yeah sure blame them while AMERICAN oil execs pocket billions of YOUR money right here and people like you can't say a thing except for blame the arabs!
tankd0g @ May 22nd 2008 12:01AM
Check California for your Veyrons paid for with Canadian oil.
IK47 @ May 22nd 2008 6:30AM
you bought the oil
how can you blame them for supplying?
typical american point-of-view
porschedevotee @ May 22nd 2008 12:43PM
@rouse42: Except they aren't making enough for ANYBODY to have one for each day of the year. The run is limited to 300, I believe.
J B @ May 21st 2008 7:20PM
agreed.
The Doctor @ May 21st 2008 7:22PM
Oh dear, looks like someone has more teeth than braincells...
Spaceweasel @ May 21st 2008 7:47PM
Did you really just pray to god for nuclear annihilation of several million men, women, and children? Please take a moment and think about that when you kneel down by your bed tonight.
Joce03 @ May 21st 2008 7:55PM
Chris,
What are you doing on a car-related site making ignorant comments about killing innocent people? Go read a book - maybe one about the middle east or Islam.
Cole Mitguard @ May 21st 2008 7:55PM
You are a sick individual. Somehow you went from a car, to gas, to the destruction of an entire people. Its people like you that spread the hate that us Americans always get blamed for having, something in your head should go off that this is not the time or place to be saying something as full of hatred as that. Hopefully Dubai will show the people of the Middle East that capitalism is a good thing, that it can transform whole cities into seeming paradises.
500 @ May 21st 2008 8:16PM
I like the look of the monochrome paint job on the Veyrons. Gives the illusion of the car being lower and wider.
Vinay @ May 21st 2008 8:17PM
I realise I'm deviating from all the all the nuclear talk, but here's all 3 of the top gear Veyrons waiting in the garage before the shoot. (Ultra-nuclear Pur Sang is on the left, beside the 599 Fiorano.)
http://www.madwhips.com/pur-sang-veyron-in-uae/image/pur-sang-veyron-in-uae-7.html
ugg.tryptophan @ May 21st 2008 9:13PM
whoah man, nsfw, put a warning on that kind of stuff before posting
V3LOCIP3D3 @ May 22nd 2008 1:57AM
I've seen that photo before, and it's crazy how small the veyron looks. in all the pictures of it alone it looks huge, but it's about half the size of the 599, with 4 more pistons . . . can't wait for top gear to test it, that's got to own around the track