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Want To Buy A Cheap Bugatti Veyron?

When it comes to buying used cars or bikes, I have two primary rules to follow. First, never buy a vehicle with a salvage title, and second, see rule number one. Just in case you’ve never heard the term before, salvage title vehicles are ones that have been written off by insurance companies, then re-purchased (at a fraction of the original value) either by the owner or at auction. Some states even frown on registering vehicles with a salvage title, and finding insurance may take more than a few calls. If you’re trying to sell one, don’t expect to get more than a fraction of what a regular-title vehicle would sell for. In short, salvage title vehicles are the red-headed stepchildren of the automotive world.

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First Drive: 2011 Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport

“THAT! THAT IS WHAT MAKES THE VEYRON, YESSS!?!?”
Loris Bicocchi’s tan, cherubic face leers at me from the passenger seat, his eyes wide behind Prada shades. It is the most animated I’ve seen my oh-so-cool Italian co-pilote since our drive began.

“VOW! From this seat, it just feels… so different. So AMAZING!”

And to think, all I had to do was pass a slow-moving farm truck in the most modest way possible. Rather than toggling the lever from Drive to Sport, or clicking the downshift paddle back in a come-hither motion, I overtake the truck the old-fashioned way: by burying my right foot.

For half a beat, nothing happens. Then there is an explosive lurch from the hindquarters, as the 20-inch tall, 365 rears engage in a brief, but victorious, battle for traction. All four wheels hook, leaving our stomachs and the Spanish countryside behind us in a hot wake of exhaust gas. I lift my foot and the wastegates reply with a full-bodied belch as we coast back down to a high-double-digit cruising speed.
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