Impossibly rich? Mad about cars? Or just mad in a medical sense? Then step this way Sir. Yours for a snip at £16,000 a day, the ultimate holiday rental: a Bugatti Veyron.
This is real. Quite honestly. A Berkshire-based leasing company called Holders Vehicle Contracts has at its disposal the world’s fastest, priciest production car. The car that demanded months of negotiation before even the Stig was allowed to drive it. The car that needs a special set of tyres to cope with its maximum speed. The car that Jenson Button himself is tooling around in when he’s not winning back-to-back Grand Prix.
But now we can all have a go. Well some of us at any rate. That £16,000 daily outlay notwithstanding, you also need to be able to put down £100,000 as a deposit.
Holders VC have already found a few willing punters though. And apparently the mostly popular destination is… St Tropez. Quel surprise.
Still, if you have as much fun in one as May had, then it’ll be worth it. Won’t it?
Erm… no. It’s not worth it!
That’s cheap, I’ll rent it for a whole month.
100000 = 16000 = >than a million steal it (joke) yeah i think andy is correct not worth it, you’ll drive that car then the next day you’ll want to drive it again, like easctasy realy, once you’ve had it you’ll pay for it again again and again!
Wow it’s certainly worth it. all those gorg. curves actually are there for one areo dynam and looks. If you want it to reach it’s top speed then they have to be there. 16 cylinders!!!! wow that is COOOL WAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!1 Rock on
cool buggatti!!!!!!
XXXXXXXX
ill by it
That’s incredibly expensive! £16,000 per day and £100,000 deposit, that’s a big lump of money. But what the Veyron has is 1001bhp which is priceless. It is also stunning to look at.
But at 16k you’ll have to drive it for as long as possible, so take it on a track day, then it might just be worth it.
But for the person with just a spare 1k, you can get an Aston Martin for a day.
Te Veyron has a W16 engine, which means it costs £1000 to rent a cylinder. XD
“But for the person with just a spare 1k, you can get an Aston Martin for a day.” Exactly, that’s why I said; not worth it. Staggeringly good car though, last week I actually had the pleasure of riding in one; stunning.
is it free???????lolololol
…because you’re worth it…:D
the ride definatley is not.
ps. I wonder if one’s allowed a smoke while on the tropez run in the veyron for 16k a pop or is it simply for the pleasure of doing 75 on the m’way dodging saxos and c5-s and the odd look of envy ?
what if you wreck it ? driving a veyron for 16k is just dumb, wrapping it around a tree and walking away for a 116k on the other hand is rocknroll.. kinda cool..:D
how many youtube hits would that generate I wonder ? sell the rights to promote otherwise boring adds and there you have it, your own b.veyron and a story to tell all for a meer 100 grand and a little change…
I’d get the money… somehow
not worth it ..
1 DAY ? !!
crazziiieeee
i dont care power
LOL the Porsche advertisement is gooooood.
Seriously though, if you can afford renting that thing for a day (deposit included), you might as well, I dunno, buy a car. And not a bad one at that.
Hm. That for all the money in the world, or a 911 Turbo for a MONTH for going on 3k.
I mean let’s face it, you’re still going to have fun in a Turbo…
@ comment 7: Haha! Who ever said Porsche doesn’t do passion?
That’s £666 per hour!
With a number like that do you want to risk it.lol
That’s also saying you don’t do something stupid like say drive it into a bush at 40mph.
For the same price per hour you could go on the Palmer sport day and trash cars till you can’t trash anymore.
:p the porsche add… if ya can’t get it up.. buy a porsche lol
all that cash to drive the worlds 2nd fastest car???
Pffffff
Not worth it. Don’t ask why.
16000 pounds a day means nearly 6 million pounds a year
lolz at the porsche advert
who says jerry doesnt have a sense of humour?
i like porsche ad!!!!!!!
A “big bug” (Veyron) owner over on Pistonheads has just had his serviced.
£13k for the service.
50K Euros for an extra 12 months warranty.
And, wait for it.
£24k for a set of tyres, £5.5k for a front, £6.5k for a rear. Also the new tyres have 5mm of tread, the originals had 7mm.
All it would take to cost the hire company £24k is 20 mins in a car park on full lock
If you can afford the deposit + £16k why not BUY a car forever rather than rent one for just 1 day?
For a car that looks like a frog, I’d never pay it!
That car is really Ugly. And it really defies the idea of driving altogether. What’s the point of having a monstrously fast car if you can’t floor it? I’d contend with BUYING a MK4 Golf GTI and Flooring it on the Autobahn, I’ll get more rush off of that than from shivering while I peer around me while simultaneously checking the speedo every couple nanoseconds to make sure I’m not above the speed limit and that no cops are around. Because if they are I’ll concentrate on them and inevitably end up some odd 60 mph above the speed limit before I even notice, and only then, It’ll only be because the cop’s hands are gripping his steering wheel, teeth gritting, and sirens flashing.
Stupid thing to drive.
It’s a very special car, but that’s still too expensive.
Yes please.
But would it be cheaper overall to just buy the thing?
1001 horsepower? That’s all hype anyway. It “only” has 983 supposedly
You might aswell save up and buy one!
BenW, it HAS 1001 metric horsepower, which translates to 987 brake hp
(1 bhp = 1.014 metric hp)
On topic: I’d rather buy a GT-R for the deposit
also remember that the 1001/987bhp is at the engine and not at the wheels.
Ive always prefered the Mclaren F1 GT so i’d say no to this
Plus why not get a shiiite car for 3grand and spend 13 on improving it. Its been proved that if you spend 24,000 on a capri, modifying it right etc you can blitz (and i mean abseloutly flatten) the likes of brabus’ finest in a drag race.
incredible…. Bugatti=Love
But 16,000 $ for a day :-O
I the ever living words of Churchill the Dog. Oh yes! Still too much though!
I see this as a good birthday present for your dad if you’re well off… but if you can afford £16000 like that then why not speak kindly to the bank manager and buy one yourself?!
but still, if i had a spare 16k….. everyone will miss this car in 50 years, how amazing must it be to say “i drove it once”
all astons, ferraris, lambos, they’ll all disappear as memories of phenominal cars…. but the veyron will always be something different.
george, why ?? it will never be up there with the e type, the 250 gto the mcL f1, or the countach.. ot will primarily be rememberd for being the car with a thousand and one horese under the bonnet and subsequently for being a bugatti… unlike the conchord the veyron is not an icon, not even an engineering marvel it is simply a fast bugatti and thereby a bit of a marketing catch and vw’s to date most ultimate statement of “yes, we can”.. do you honestly believe the jezzter when he says the world will never see a better car ? do you even want to ???
100 grand as a deposit? To hell with that, you could buy some supercars with that and still have some change for spec.
I’d rather buy an Aston Martin DB9 for 103k.
If i had the cash i would definetly do it. It would be an honour to drive the beast!!!
prancong pony, the Veyron actually has 987bhp. The power dial is in PferdeStarke (PS), a European and Japanese measurement of power. 1PS = 0.98632007271bhp.
And I think people will remember it. People still think Veyron rather than SSC Ultimate Aero when they think “Fastest Car in the World”, plus being the first production car to top 250mph is a real milestone. At the very least it will end up in a museum like Beaulieu.
*the prancing pony (sorry for the mis-spelling)
mikeado, pferde= horse.. staerke= power
and notice how I didn’t write bhp ? I’m sure the veyron will have it’s place in museums and private collections due to it’s price and exclusivity there is no doubt about that.. but if we put it into perspective and call it for what it is, one of the fastest production cars at the moment, a car that draws attention to itself mainly by that fact alone..will never have icon status. It’s an aesthetic catastrophe and a car most of us will only see in a museum.. the past decade in mu opinion gave us a lot of interesting cars that will go down as phenomenal like the alfa 8c, the veyron, the mc laren merc, the porsche carrera gt but the one to join the e type, countach an co. will without a shed of doubt be paganni’s zonda..
the veyron simply lacks the flamboyance needed to claim icon status.. it’s simply too serious.. it’s perhaps too german..
have a look at how ppl up here would rather spend half their imaginary funds and buy an aston instead ? that kinda says it all…
thats really cool what really who can afford it?
for that money you could buy a decent 2nd hand ferrari.
U might as well buy a veyron 4 that price
£16,000 to rent a veyron for a day. Man you could have some fun with the old bill.
For everyone claiming that for £116,000 you might as well buy a Veyron.
You might want to go check up on the MSRP of a Veyron.
It is a LOT MORE EXPENSIVE.
yamann but it’s 100 grand depo and 16 grand a pop.. so the amount you’d have to cough up for a month would get you one and leave enough to play with… it’s basic arithmetic.. like the dials on your speedo… get it ?? hahahahahaha
ouch. Not a bad idea though.
I think if you can afford that for a day I presume you aren’t massively off affording to buy one anyway.
Bugatti Veyron RRP: £890,000
890,000 / 16,000 = 55.6
Add insurance premiums and you’d need to drive your Veyron for 100 days over 3 years for it to be better value than renting.
I reckon renting’s a better bet.
cool car
it would be cheeper to rent a secret agent and tell him to steal it then you would have it untill you got caught with the 2nd fastest car in the year i admit it probally is cheeper to rent the car or you could buy it apparantley it pays for its self in 100000000000000000 years
I’ve seen premiership football agents lose more than the daily hire in a night at the casino and still left with their lapdancer girlfriends with a smile! I don’t think 16k is the issue but if you can hand it back in one peice to get ur 100k back.
Stunning car thou saw it at mercs park lane last year.
I dont guess its worth renting ………. its a waste of money Id say or the price should be more reasonable!