That was considerably more damage than what happened to Tracy’s car. In addition to several body panels, spoilers and a wheel well, the bill also included a new tire and rim.
But the injuries are totally different. The injuries (in theory, anyways) would be the same if she hit Tracy in a million dollar car or Joe Blow in a $20,000 car.
Unless something has changed that I haven’t heard he lives in Alpine New Jersey.
Or they may be non-existent but still cost her a lot in legal fees. If he was actually injured then he wouldn’t be a jerk for seeking reasonable compensation.
I was in a very similar accident roughly 12 years ago. I was in the left lane going straight when the car to my right turned left across my lane as we both pulled away from a stop light. My (much shittier) car needed a new wheel, wheel cover, tire, fender, bumper cover, attached spoiler, control arm, reflector, and headlight, among other miscellaneous and sundry parts. It was, if I recall correctly, around $2500 total. Bugatti parts and labor are going to be astronomically more expensive. The annual service for a Bugatti is over $21,000, or about 70 times the annual service on my last car. I don’t think the $120,000 estimate is all that unrealistic.
I certainly didn’t suggest it was totaled. Even used, those Bugattis go for over $1 million. It would take at least $750,000 in damage to total it. The damage is perhaps a third of that.
This kind of luxury is not so much comfort luxury as performance luxury. It is pretty foolish to use this kind of car for commuting through heavy traffic in the city. It’s not easy to drive at low speeds, it’s not maneuverable, the clutch and engine can overheat much more easily than a normal car, the spoiler has minimal clearance and is easily damaged on potholed roads. It’s just not designed for constant stop-start at low speeds, so it’s certainly not a luxury experience to drive one in heavy traffic, it’s quite stressful.
So yes, the usual thing would be to commute in something more suitable, and keep it at your country mansion for fun driving on emptier roads at the weekend. And when you’re paying this much for a car, they will obviously deliver it in a trailer anywhere you want.
*When I say “the usual thing”, I mean the usual thing if you buy the car because you want to experience driving it, rather than being looked at. So, perhaps not the usual thing.
And even if he doesn’t intend to drive it in NYC, he’s got to get it home from the dealership. The place where the accident occurred was in the neighborhood where most of the Manhattan car dealers are located, and given the location of the accident, it’s conceivable that he was heading straight home from there.
I swear to Og, I thought they stopped making Bugattis around WWII. This was the picture the thread title put in my head.
Where do you get these ideas? The Veyron is a luxury car with an automatic transmission, power steering, air conditioning, and all the normal luxury appointments. It has two computer controlled clutches but they are designed to withstand the application of over 1000 horsepower for as long as the fuel lasts. The Volkswagen executive responsible for the Veyron, Ferdinand Piech, is famous for demanding that a lesser Volkswagen be capable of driving for an entire day at 186 mph, in 120 degree weather, with the air conditioning set at 72 degrees, all without overheating. The Veyron has something like 10 radiators designed to cool all its fluids when travelling over 250 mph. I’ve never heard of one overheating in any conditions. Maneuverability wasn’t the problem here; the problem was the driver of a Honda CR-V who doesn’t know how to drive. Based on her statements, she didn’t learn anything from this accident either. She thinks Tracy Morgan did something wrong. Police who witnessed the accident were quick to note that he was not cited. She could have killed a biker, like robardin. Perhaps an accident that costs her a couple hundred thousand dollars will be an object lesson for terrible drivers everywhere.
The Bugattis measurable performance is irrelevant here. The principal performance attribute of a Bugatti Veyron is demonstrating that the owner is rich and brash enough to drive a Bugatti. That is a job best accomplished in the city where people can see it.
Ah, then order is returned to the universe.
Aw man. Pony up $2 mill for a Bugatti, and need to shell out for a SECOND car?! 
Maybe he’ll buy a beater, and slap on a bumper sticker saying, “My other car is a Bugatti!” 
Yeah, he can choose to drive whatever wherever he wants, but if it were me, I’d have had the dealer trailer the Bugatti to my home.
When you’re walking down the street and you see a fender bender, does it ever occur to you to think “boy, I hope the guy who got hit isn’t an asshole to the other driver”?
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Well, acey is not completely off the mark. Cars like that have very little clearance. I’d never drive one in Manhattan because the roads are in such poor shape - you’d smash up your front spoiler on the bumps in no time. Lamborghini has a front suspension lift system to try to make them a bit more practical:
[/QUOTE]Wasn’t there a Top Gear episode where the guys were driving low-slung supercars from Paris to London? One of them, Hammond, I think, spent thirty minutes trying to get his …Ferrari, if memory serves… out of the parking garage without trashing the front end where the ramp from the garage met the street.
Huh, that’s weird. Very same thing happened to me in high school. I used to sit across from her, just so I could bask in the beauty of Bill Hader. 
Nobody’s disputing the use of “car crash”. It’s how the rest of the words interact with that phrase. You said “Tracy Morgan crashed his car” right there in the subject. That’s active voice, saying Tracy Morgan did this (crashed his car). A few other posters have listed the other ways you assigned blame in your posts.
If you didn’t want to assign blame, you’d have said “Tracy Morgan was in a car crash”.
Do you see the difference between the two sentences? One is active - Tracy Morgan did something; one is passive - something happened to Tracy Morgan.
I remember that. Urban parking garages, particularly older ones in older cities, really aren’t designed for low-riding supercars.
From Lamborghini and Ferrari. Obviously I’ve never driven a Bugatti, ignorance fought if they are a lot more user-friendly. I guess that’s what the incremental $1.7 million buys you.
In any event, I was speaking only to where I’d choose to drive a car like that, I didn’t intend to imply that this made Morgan at fault for the collision.
The only scenario where this is Tracy’s fault is if he was trying to do some third-lane passing or if he was pulling out from a curbside parking spot/loading zone/hydrant. I would bet the SUV driver couldn’t see the super-low Bugatti out her side views. Without knowing the intersection it’s tough to know if it’'s completely unreasonable to be turning right from that lane.
FWIW, the CNN headline right now says, “Tracy Morgan gets in a crash right after buying a $2million Bugatti.”
This is why we need a 70% tax rate on the wealthy.
Meh, if Forza 4 is to be believed, the Veyron handles like crap anyway, the Veyron is a one trick pony hypercar, it’s party piece is going as fast as conceivably possible in a straight line…
handling is an afterthought.
Give me a Ferrari F-40 any day, THAT’S a real supercar, completely driver-focused, if it doesn’t make the car handle better or accelerate faster, it has no place on the car, the F-40 was basically a street-legal Formula One
