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A wonderful car which is aging gracefully and profitably. But... At getting on for 20 years old, it comes from a time when designers simply did not have the constraints placed on them that exist today. For me, given the exponentially greater constraints and regulation placed on manufacturers today , the Veyron is the better technical achievement. The goals that Piech set for the Veyron were harder to meet than those that the F1 design team aimed for. As good as Gordon Murray may be, I think the Veyron engineers had the more challenging job. Much respect to the F1, it was a car ahead of its time and its performance is still stunning today - but I believe that the VW/Bugatti engineers were thrown more of a curve ball and had the harder targets to meet.
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A wonderful car which is aging gracefully and profitably. But... At getting on for 20 years old, it comes from a time when designers simply did not have the constraints placed on them that exist today. For me, given the exponentially greater constraints and regulation placed on manufacturers today , the Veyron is the better technical achievement. The goals that Piech set for the Veyron were harder to meet than those that the F1 design team aimed for. As good as Gordon Murray may be, I think the Veyron engineers had the more challenging job. Much respect to the F1, it was a car ahead of its time and its performance is still stunning today - but I believe that the VW/Bugatti engineers were thrown more of a curve ball and had the harder targets to meet.
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Very true on all points Steven, although I think it wasn't that much easier for the F1 design team, 20+ years ago when the design was being conceived there was far less technology and digital modelling that could be done to prove design concepts. Today designs are done and modeled in a computer long before one is ever built, and the performance is pretty well known by the time one hits the road. The F1 was a car truly ahead of it's time and beautiful and elegant for it's day. I agree that the Veyron's technological achievements are going to take a long time to be exceeded.
make it simple F1 design with very little computer work and still can go over 200+
Veyron design all on the computer.
I think every 1 agrees that there will not be a other car like Veyron not that it the top speed is even higher.
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Very true on all points Steven, although I think it wasn't that much easier for the F1 design team, 20+ years ago when the design was being conceived there was far less technology and digital modelling that could be done to prove design concepts. Today designs are done and modeled in a computer long before one is ever built, and the performance is pretty well known by the time one hits the road. The F1 was a car truly ahead of it's time and beautiful and elegant for it's day. I agree that the Veyron's technological achievements are going to take a long time to be exceeded.
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