By Leftlane Staff
Friday, Jan 20th, 2006 @ 1:07 pm

Jeremy Clarkson would have liked to dismiss the Bugatti Veyron. When the McLaren F1 came out, Clarkson thought it was a stupid car, with a stupid price. The same could be said about the Veyron. “Why dream”, he asked, “about something there’s no point dreaming about?” But in a rare moment of reflection, Jeremy admits he can be wrong. “I try on opinions like I try on clothes, standing in front of a mirror and wondering if they suit me,” he writes. “Sometimes, I take them home and realise I made a bad choice, so I throw them away and get new ones.” And so he did. “The Veyron has rendered everything I’ve ever said about any other car obsolete,” he admits. “They weren’t fighting to beat Mercedes or BMW . These guys were fighting to beat heat, and friction and lift. They were fighting nature.”

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