Oddly enough, it was only about a half-hour into the test drive before I felt ready to turn the Veyron loose. It usually takes much more settling-in time for me to be comfortable with really cracking the whip over an unfamiliar car on unfamiliar roads, especially a car with 1001 horsepower and a mach-speed reputation.But after a few miles of cruising quiet French lanes and making progressively faster sprints through the gears, I was pretty confident with the thing. Tremendous acceleration, yeah, but still completely civilized and dead easy to drive; your dear old aunt could idle it along to Sunday School. So once I found a nice healthy hole in traffic on the four-lane near the Bugatti factory in Molsheim, I eased it up to about 70, took a good look around and boldly stomped the throttle toward the floor.
The genteelly muted engine rumble behind me instantly erupted into a bellowing B-movie Tyrannosaurus Rex and the power spike slammed the seat against my back so hard I honestly thought the rear end of the car had exploded. My foot couldn't have came off that accelerator any faster if the pedal was wired up to a wall socket, and I shrieked out loud like a little girl.
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