'Drowned' Bugatti sells for £228k

But then again, there was the 14 litre, straight 8 T41 "Royale'.

Rover P6 3500S wrote:

I wonder what happened to that OTHER drowned Bugatti... Anyone else think that the Veyron should have had its V16 up front, been badged as a Bentley and had a two-door, four-seat body looking like a cross between the Brooklands, the InContinental GT (as I like to call it, having seen a bloke relieving himself over one) and the new Mulsanne? This old Bug has a 30bhp, 1.5litre I4, but weighs bugger all. We needed Bugatti back as a kind of Alsatian Lotus/Caterham-style giant-killer, not as the giant itself. Stick a 1.4 litre TSI into a fly-weight RWD tubular spaceframe chassis, give it 1920s/30s Bugatti-style bodywork and they wouldn't be able to build 'em fast enough. The Bug grille just doesn't lend itself to modern bodywork - you need separate headlights on brackets and whatnot to make it work. The Veyron is hideous, pretty slow on a race-track (Caterhams and a supercharged BMW M3 have, among many others, slain the Veyron on the Nordschleife), gob-smackingly, unjustifiably expensive, and, according to Jeremy Clarkson (who, we all know, is unfailingly reliable as a source of information... ha ha), it's pretty unsatisfying to drive at anything other than the far upper reaches of its rev range on a simply massive stretch of straight road. A Caterham, on the other hand, is a hoot at 40mph on the B4157928 between Chipping Cowdung and Little Snoring - and no, I have nothing against the countryside, I live almost within sniffing distance of my nearest farm.