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This Is How You Have to Ship Bugatti’s $3M Supercar

08/31/2014 3:23 PM

When you drop $3 million on a special-edition Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse, you want everything to be perfect. That's why, before it leaves the factory, Bugatti wraps the car more carefully than royal nurses swaddle the future King George.

This Vitesse, complete with a custom (and questionable) paint job, was delivered to an unnamed buyer at Symbolic Motor Car Company in San Diego. Spencer Berke, an employee at the dealership, photographed the whole unloading process, which took more than two hours from start to finish.

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08/31/2014 3:46 PM

... But before they do all that they fully encase the car in that crappy rigged security plastic that consumer product manufacturers are so fond of that is virtually impossible to remove without damaging the product and/or injuring yourself.

"Hey nice car, what's up with all the scratches?"

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08/31/2014 7:50 PM

What is meant by questionable paint job.

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08/31/2014 8:58 PM

Aesthetically 'questionable' in the author's opinion, probably.

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08/31/2014 10:02 PM

If you can afford the car, do you really care?

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09/01/2014 1:46 AM

It wasn't my question. I was replying to Phoenix.

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08/31/2014 10:18 PM

Did somebody say Supercar!

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08/31/2014 10:42 PM

Don't think that's the one, Redfred. What is that on the right flank? A power cord? Early All Electric? Battery tech to follow as/when developed?

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08/31/2014 10:51 PM

The picture was a momentary scene of a desert repair where.... oh never mind.

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08/31/2014 10:57 PM

K. I won't mind.

I THOUGHT that was the underwater space-plane/car from one of those really bad early animated Saturday morning, eat your cereal while you watch this educational cartoon(s), we used to see when I was a 10 year old kid in 1964!

Wasn't it?

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08/31/2014 11:25 PM

No animation at all involved. All done with puppetry far ahead of its time since most puppetry of the era was not designed for close-up work. You almost got the year right. The final year for Supercar was 1962. Half a century later this car looks so much more plausible than anything I've seen in any modern fantasy movie: Hobbit, X-Men, Harry Potter, etc.

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08/31/2014 11:53 PM

Hmmm. Makes me feel old. Or smart. Can't decide which. Also makes me wonder how many of us there are that are so secure with ourselves we'll even admit we saw that show?

Ah, well. Nothing left to prove, so no risk in admitting it, right?

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09/01/2014 8:06 AM

Maybe it's a hybrid...

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08/31/2014 11:23 PM

Get those winning numbers for lotto organised and you also can have a fast car with a crappy paint job ... suitably shipped of course.
It raises the point, I am sure the grey ceiling team could help the dot coms in how to handle such a crafted machine. I could sell the new owners a 'special driver's licence' to go with their new purchase. Ah the lot of a consultant!

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09/01/2014 4:19 AM

Since they are unloading it in the center turn lane I kept expecting someone to run into it ith their car as they drove down the street texting.

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09/02/2014 3:36 PM

I was also waiting to see the flashing red lights for illegally parking in the turn lane/median.

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09/01/2014 6:58 AM

Once it's unwrapped, the dealership spends up to 12 hours inspecting every detail, down to the finish, battery, fluids, and wiring

or as we say 'Ogling'

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10/28/2014 12:24 AM

U do all this and once the car hits the road anything can happen to it in the next second. from a flying gravel chip to a major accident. Pity people revere the car so much as not to realize it is a piece of expendable junk whatever u paid for it.

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10/28/2014 7:31 AM

Depends on ones level of disposable income is.

This car is not made for the common man in mind.

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