Day Thunder

It's the world's fastest road car, and for one glorious day it was all ours. Chris Harris describes an unforgettable encounter with the 1183bhp, 268mph Veyron Super Sport

Please excuse the blindingly obvious observation, but besides anything else it may stand for-be it speed, wealth, exclusivity or the obsessions of Herr Piech-the Bugatti Veyron is a collection of numbers. Some might say that boiling a £2,000,000 car down to a sticky concentrate of digits and decimal points is the ultimate insult, but then the Veyron is a car whose numbers captivate today's car nut the way the Vector did in its early-'80s Top Trumps heyday.

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