Darth Vader is The Stig.

We're all looking at a rather traditional definition of "made it": Enough money to buy a fancy car to show off to your friends. That is not success! For every dollar you put into that Aston, Porsche, or Lamborghini there will be a man down your swanky new street that has even more money to put into his Pagani,…

@Tylinol: Actually, I'd rather have a stock Cappuccino with the busa engine. But this works too.

WANT!

If you're a well-heeled Maybach collector, then it's a good deal. When you're in the lofty levels of collecting in which this car resides, money is hardly an object.

Well, if you're a true Jalop, you're significant other IS your car.

Transmission in front? Maybe the mean in front of the engine? It just wouldn't make sense to make an eco-minded FWD mid-engine car, it has the same drive train efficiency loss as a front-engine RWD car.

The ones that run and are not suspended by gas-filled green orbs.

@Motor_Yakuza: Alas...some people just don't have the Jalop in them.

Hmm...0/1975 = 0! If paint condition counts towards age, my bus is significantly older.

TurboWeasel...

Thanks, but I've got a great deal on a 3 bedroom in Gaza. The schools are much nicer there.

I wouldn't compare it to the plush, comfortable Veyron, more like the ugly, impractical F1. Any way you slice it, 270mph is pretty epic.

Knight Rider fans? I LOL'd

Welcome to Jalopnik, where we don't care who you are - only what you're driving.

Race it anyway!

@WillysWonka: Just one.

m8x78mm Engine block stud. YES!

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50 posts to go :O And my VW bus has a Jalopnik score in the low 150 range.