Top Gear takes Veyron to its top speed (video)...amazing

[G.Irish]

250 mph is nothing to sneeze at in a street legal vehicle but for my meellion dollars I'll take the McLaren. Of course, I wouldn't mind seeing what kind of time the Veyron could do at Nurburgring.

i think the scope of both cars is significantly different, though. the veyron coddles you in luxury and gives you 2 more tires to put power through. its a stable land missle whereas the big Mac is, for all it's engineering, a lightweight sprinter on a knife edge from what i've read from reports, when it's at maximum attack on a course.

sure, the veyron is about performance but ultimately it's about much more, which i'm not sure the Mac is. i know they are both equally capable of driving around town in a subdued manner, and unleashing split personalities but that's about it.

and for the record, i wouldn't take either...i'd take an F40 8)

That's a good point. The Veyron purports to be luxurious and opulent as well as incredibly fast whereas the McLaren was all about performance. The thing about the McLaren that separates it from all of the other modern supercars is that it is the only production car in at least the last 50 years to win Le Mans overall.

The F40, F50, Enzo, Koenigsegg, Pagani Zonda, and the S7 were all great cars but none of them achieved much motorsport success. I think the S7 could have gotten there but it got saddled with an uncompetitive rule set due to its trouble meeting homologation requirements.