This isn’t a Bugatti Veyron, if you’re wondering. It’s a Mercury Cougar wearing what looks like the Veyron’s clothes. Mercury is an extinct brand that used to sell rebadged and reengineered sedans and SUVs from Ford’s portfolio.

The Cougatti is a visual success, but under the hood lies a V6 engine teamed to an automatic transmission. It can generate 168bhp and it can hardly touch 150mph, forget 254mph.

The American behind this Bugatti Veyron replica put it up for sale on an auction site setting the starting bid at $89k. An original Veyron will set you back by $700k.

The Cougatti cannot manage 1000bhp and a 0-60 time of less than 3 seconds but can’t you think of anything else to buy for $89k that can win you second glances?

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Unlike the Bimmer, this replica has been done very well. Apart from the slightly long tail it is very hard to make out that beneath the body of the Bugatti lies a Porsche!

Porsche Boxster-based Bugatti Veyron almost fakes flawlessly

The car is up for grabs for a sum of 124,636 Euro in Poland.

Bugatti Veyron based on the Porsche Boxster Image Gallery

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The world’s fastest car (or second fastest) has a very devoted fan club across the globe. But its million dollar price tag and limited production makes sure that most of the fans will not have one in their life. But that hasn’t stopped them from not wanting one.

A bunch of auto enthusiasts from Pavlodar produced a replica of the Veyron based on a BMW 6 series. Although this replica has major giveaways when it comes to detailing, alloys and the fact that the wheelbase is very small, overall it is a very decent effort.

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A Bugatti Veyron owner was in for shock when Bugatti’s ‘no repair, only replace’ policy extended to the case of a nail stuck in one of his Veyron’s tyre also.

The Veyron’s owner noticed a nail stuck in his car’s massive Michelin PAX 365/35 R21 rear tyre and when he wanted Bugatti to repair the run-flat tyre, he was informed that Bugatti’s ‘no repair, only replace’ policy applies to tyres also and when he opted for a new tyre, he was informed that replacement tyres come only in pairs and was finally billed £14,500 for the two tyres.

This costs as much as a brand new Ford Fiesta Zetec S. Such expensive repair costs (er… replacement costs) for simple parts like the tyres even, make the Bugatti Veyron a very notorious car to own and maintain. It is said that the total costs of owning a Veyron and maintaining it for its lifetime would cost as much a small African country.

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The Bugatti Veyron is painstakingly put together by hand in France and is said that VW loses money on every Veyron sold. It was made to take the laws of physics and wipe VW’s shoes with it. It was built to prove a point.

To get a fraction of the satisfaction the factory workers get when they see a finished Veyron, you need a bottle of Vodka and Adobe Photoshop. Follow the instructions laid out here to create your own Bugatti Veyron on your computer, sipping on Vodka as you draw along.

Or you could just order for a 10,000 cigarette packets and do what these group of Chinese Bugatti enthusiasts did.

Think Bugatti and the terms that immediately come to mind are power, speed, luxury, panache etc. The lucky few who have driven one cannot stop reminiscing about their experience with the cars of the brand and swear by the Bugatti brand name.

A design company by the name Racer X Design has designed a concept for the Bugatti brand which is based on the Bentley Continental GT platform. The concept has been dubbed the Bugatti Type 12-2 and it is basically a 2+2, front engine, rear-wheel drive GT car.

The car has been designed in order to offer ample passenger room, comfort and luggage space. But the car also sticks to the Bugatti tradition of making cars for people who love speed, comfort and style. The Bugatti Type 12-2 concept could be a sort of preview or could form the basis for the successor of the mighty, all conquering Bugatti Veyron.

Bugatti Type 12-2 Image Gallery

The similar Bugatti Renaissance Design Concept

But, another design which could also be the basis for the Veyron successor is the design by John Mark Vicente, a graduate of the Communication Design Program at Emily Carr. His design for the Veyron’s successor is called the Bugatti Renaissance Design Concept, which could qualify as an official design by Bugatti, if it is placed inside one of the company’s folders.

The Bugatti Renaissance Design Concept is based on the current Bugatti Veyron and borrows a lot of inspiration for the design lines from the Audi R8 and some of the Ferraris. The Bugatti Renaissance Design Concept by John Mark Vicente looks like a valiant effort, but it begs to be asked this question, Is VW looking at this?

The actual Bugatti Veyron Successor

There is also a third car in the fray for being the successor to the Bugatti Veyron. Auto Express is reporting that Bugatti have developed a prototype of an all-electric supercar. The prototype is claimed to have an 800 horsepower (597 kW, 811-PS) powertrain consisting of two electric motors that produce an earth shattering 2,200 Nm (1623 lb-ft) of torque right from the word Go!

But, Auto Express also reports that this car may never be shown to the public. It seems as if Bugatti has built the car as an experiment for its engineers to further examine electric powertrain technology for cars. But, its hard to believe that Bugatti would create an insanely powerful supercar and not show it to the public as a demonstration of its abilities and for marketing and brand building purposes.

The reason for the car not being shown to the public could be due to the fact that the engineers are facing problems with keeping the power of the car under control and that the batteries last for no longer than a few minutes.

But, the final question to be asked and the answer for which fans of the Bugatti brand are eagerly waiting for is: VW, what is going to succeed the Veyron?

Source – Racer X

Rapper P. Diddy in his latest music video, ‘Hello Good Morning’ is seen driving a black Bugatti Veyron. This happens to be the onscreen debut of the 1001hp Bugatti Veyron, which to our best of knowledge hasn’t featured in any of the music videos since its debut in 2004.

The video uses the Bugatti Veyron more as ‘blingmobile’ than a exquisitely designed supercar that is capable of a top whack of 408.5kmph.

We motorheads would have really loved it if P.Diddy had ripped the Veyron and if director Hype Williams had shot the Bugatti’s needle touching 408kmph, and the P.Diddy rapping to the engine’s roar.

This is a clearly a case of a director not using his crew’s full potential! Perhaps they will take our advice when the next generation Veyron features in a P.Diddy video.