I’ll never understand rich folks, but I guess when you have all the money in the world, you can do whatever you like and it doesn’t matter if it makes sense or not. Some mega-rich like traveling around the world in a hot air balloon, while others buy tickets to the moon, but here’s one rich dude who has just traded in his US$1.6million “fastest-car-in-the-world” Veyron for a much lesser machine – the US$100,000 Corvette ZR1. A move that has baffled car fans around the world.
Now if you’re not a car nut, then the swap would make sense to you, sell of fthe more expensive machine for something cheaper and just as fast. But the problem is, the Vette is not just as fast as a Veyron, nothing on four-wheels is just as fast as a Veyron. The ZR1 may be the fiercest of all the Vette’s and is more than capable of tearing apart a number of today’s supercars apart when it comes to power and speed but to pick one over a Bugatti seems a little, far-fetched. Why not just keep the Bugatti and buy a Vette? I’m sure the owner is more than capable of that.
Just for comparison, the Vette ZR1 does the century sprint in 3.3 seconds and tops off at 330km/h, the Veyron in the other hand demolishes the 100km/h mark in a stunning 2.4 seconds and doesn’t stop till it reaches it’s 407km/h top speed. But maintaining a Veyron costs equally as much as maintaining a private jet so the swap does kind of make sense. More over, the owner has already owned other greats like a Diablo and a Mclaren F1 so I guess it makes sense to sample something more savage than the usual lot. Swap a Veyron for a ZR1, the idea is still hard to comprehend.
Source: Jalopnik
