Road & Track compared the Veyron to the Hennessey Viper Venom TT back in 2007. The Viper made it look like, well, like a big fat truck. The Viper was to the Veyron what a 911 is to a Ford Explorer.

Was there a way of getting out if the car was inverted? Seems to me that without seat belts, you might not be conscious after a good rollover crash, so maybe it wouldn't matter.

@nutbastard: What's $465 million here, half a billion there? It is 'cool.' I'm glad to subsidize sports car purchases for self-righteous rich people. Drink the Brawndo!

@The Dead Inside Group of Companies Limited: They still make Canada?

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If nothing else, Mercury provided my favorite Bond Car, which was driven by my favorite Bond Babe.

@collinsayz: Because you'd be too busy fighting for food.

Easy come, easy go. It is just our taxpayer dollars being wasted by a bunch of nimrods on a plant where even Toyota couldn't make cars profitably. Idiocracy was released in 2006 and intended as a humorous look 500 years into the future. Instead it looked all the way out to 2009. Yippee.

Even though a huge percentage of the obese luxury sedans out there have what used to be called 2+2 interiors, with useless backseat headroom for adult men thanks to some artsy-fartsy idiot's ideas about what a roofline should look like, I just don't think any manufacturers are willing to put a real mini-cab pickup…

@w1llk: Especially if he is holding a RADAR gun!

A Corvette Zo6 would still swat it like a fly, although 3,373 lbs is still hardly an insubstantial mass. Pathetic.

The tubes in the Powell made carrying fishing LINES easy? Really? The only one of these I wasn't familiar with was the 1967 Mohs Ostentatienne Opera Sedan. I wonder where they are now. That would make such a fantastically obnoxious daily driver.

I knew these cars when they were new, and they were terrible. If this one is worth $4,500 now, when you could have a great E30 325i that ran rings around it when it was new for less, it is for the same reason that people want thousands for Chevrolet Vegas that still run on their original oil drinking engines. I hope…

@Darnell's Auto Wrecking: The reason I don't think it was a modded Fiberfab was because of the doors and windows - they were side hinged instead of gullwings and windows had the inner panels that opened similar to the original. Also, this car was built in some time before 1974. When I saw the real Carabo, I knew…

@superveloce: I suspect he used more than just the Porsche engine. It was rear engined rather than mid engined, so he would have been able to keep much of the suspension and the transmission of the donor car, or even a Beetle platform. I don't think it had much VW in it though, as I remember it had Slotmags or maybe…

@CJinSD:

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A personal favorite of mine from the era was the 1968 Alfa Romeo Carabo. It didn't make production, but a neighbor of mine named George Lake built one for himself, with Porsche 911 power, IIRC.

@IN THE FACE!: It isn't how far you go. It is how far you'll go to get there.

I think there used to be a video on the net of Schumacher crashing it, or at least photos of the damage. No comments on the German having the SS package?