Thanks America. First you put Jaguar in trouble and now your doing this to Bugatti. Everybody should drive golf carts, or are they too fast for you? No wonder you dont have roundabouts.

Good old US laws keeping the decent cars out of our hands yet again.

I was hoping that that new cheap 4 cylinder Bugatti was going to made and sold. It was reportedly going to be around $60K and designed to be a lighweight sports car to fight the Lotus Elises of the world.

Morons!!! Those people at the Highway Traffic Safety just want cash to shutup… sameway Ferrari payed them off! Assholes… what kind of a child or short highted woman will ever drive or sit in one of these cars? 90% of the time these cars are just sitting in their garage, looking like the highend toys that they are! IDIOTS!

Most strippers aren’t fat pigs, they are petite. Therefore, if you crash a Veyron with a stripper in the passenger seat (which is highly likely considering the type of clientele that will purchase the Veyron), and if it doesn’t have smart airbags, she will likely will be severly injured or killed.
And we all know that there are already enough dead strippers in the streets.

and again: welcome to the nanny state…

Pluzeeeze! Enough with the “Weapons of Mass Distruction now in hands of Aliens!”…says George Bush, headlines. Who flipping cares.

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Man, now I really feel sorry for you guys…

Can you see an infant strapped in a car seat in the passenger seat of this car? lol lol lol

They aught to grant exemptions to all vehicles that have less than “X” number sold here.

I find this ironic…I have contacted the NHSTA several times about our POS car that has had issues related to safety on a car that can be bought everyday here in the states….and I get NO RESPONSE FRO THEM!! I mean my door will not open and the manufacturer wants me to pay for their horrid build, all because my warranty is out for a few months!! THANKS NHSTA for helping me….NOT!

For the price of one of these piles of crap, one could be driving around in a Hummer or a Fine GMT-900 SUV instead. Americans don’t need some glorified Volkswagon here in the states anyways since we’d all prefer GM vehicles anyways

With the government continually attempting to protect us from ourselves, it’s amazing that bungee-jumping and sky-diving are still legal.

Thats the stupidest thing ive ever heard

Put them out of business?? Don’t they sell these car anywhere but the U.S.? I don’t see how a 10% increase in price will lead to these doomsday consequences (Bugatti’s number). Is this just VW spinning the old “you can prove anything with numbers” game?

What’s happening to the US??? It used to be a great country but now: Welcome to Nanny State! And come on: Someone who’s calling a Veyron “a piece of crap” and prefers a Hummer to a Bugatti deserves to drive a Hummer…He’ll never know what a decent car is…

WOW those are some fairly large losses…
I can understand if they want to make safe cars even safer, but please this car isn’t made for safety. We probably will never see a family of children in one of these. A few of them will sit in garages, while there will be the few that will actually occasionally drive them.
Make family cars safer, not high performance cars.

Even though I think it should be exempted, I find it funny with the rants on here. Like any of you could afford one of these. Wah, wah, wah.

It should be exempt, but a recent study just came out (maybe on autoblog) that showed how car related deaths are only going down because of car safety, not better driving habits. But doesn’t Lotus have some sort of deal worked out for their low headlights or something? Why can’t Bugatti do that?

I’d say leave the American market. Pull all Lamborghini’s, Ferrari’s, Lotus, Aston Martins, Porsches, Bugatti’s, Maserati’s etc. off the market.
Enjoy your GT40 cowboys!

Unfortunately it ain’t gonna happen cause Beverly Hills has quite some customers…

Reb–”Like any of you could afford one of these. Wah, wah, wah.”

There has been some wealthy lurkers here I’m sure.

Renton is right. The guy that petitioned the Ferrari Enzo thing a while back was posting on here.

The rich are here…

…including one who passed over the Veyron to spend almost ten times the amount on an amazing custom Ferrari. Remember that?

Attention short Bugatti onwers with children: i am 6′1 and my girlfriend is 5′10,and i have no children. I will be happy to take this deadly machine off your hands free of charge.

2006300C:
Even if you could get one free of charge, one year of insurance will cost more than your house!!!!

actually… does Progressive or any of the others list the veyron? I am now curious what the insurance does go for…

If car companies can put air bags in an $10,000 car I have NO sympathy for these folks. Screw’em.

A Hummer H2 would destroy this thing.

Now who’s the smart person there?

This is about as silly a complaint as I have ever heard. Make no mistake, I oppose airbags, be they smart or be they dumb. Mandatory seatbeat laws save many more lives than do airbags. But my opposition to airbags does not change the fact their use is mandated by law. They have been mandated by law for years–years before the Bugatti was even proposed.

Volkswagen knew the law when it built the Bugatti. If it did so in hopes that the US would give it a waiver at the last minute–too bad. VW made stupid bet and it lost.

If Volkswagen doesn’t want to bring the Bugatti into compliance with US law, let it find a country where the car can be sold legally.

Bush, the problem isn’t the airbags themselves… it is the TYPE of airbag and getting the vehicles re-certified with the different TYPE of airbag.

america sucks

I really doubt any of the people complaining here can buy a Veyron. If you can prove it and do not talk about someone else. If you can buy a Bugatti Veyron, prove it and then feel free to compain here. To the others, quit living in fantasy world. How lame is it to complain about something you can never own. Bugatti and thier supercar is awesome and I love it, but if they go out of business, it is their own fault. Everyone knows the rules and that is life.

1952 MG TD – I know and it doesn’t change my opinion.

we cant even get our hands on the best super cars

thats a damn shame

a crying chame.

Perfectly alright to stuff 10 illegal immigrants on a rusted out pick up truck with expired tags and drive around Florida all day long. Very limited production $1 million plus car with no airbags? Forget it!! Thank you NHTSA for protecting all of us.

Who care’s ?

I was cross shopping the Veyron, Chevy Cobalt and Honda Fit. This makes my decision a little easier now.

Just a few of the cars some very determined people from all walks of life with varying levels of personal finance REALLY WANT and are willing to pay RIDICULOUS MONEY FOR that the DOT, NHTSA and EPA Emissions agencies seem to have a bug up their asses about:

Porsche 959
Ferarri Enzo
Various Lambos
TVR vehicles
ANY R32-R34 Skyline GT-R
Koenigsegg CCX
And now the Bugatti Veyron

Feel free to contribute. I’m sure I’ve left a good 70+ vehicles out of this tiny list of examples. Remember folks, ONE IN TWENTY PEOPLE OWN AND AFFORD UPKEEP ON ONE OF THESE FANTASTIC LOW PRODUCTION CARS

It’s a lot of money to waste on a car, so let a prospective buyer have their cake in peace.

Ultra-low-volume cars like the Veyron should get automatic examption.

Craig (2 above), you hit that one right on the nose.

A better question is how is something like that missing from a 1.3 million dollar car in the first place. They’ve been standard on many luxury cars for half a decade.

communism, pure and simple. before you know it they will ban all manual transmissions due a distraction factor and continue in thier attempts to turn us all into sheep.

Clarkson tried to find out how much teh Veryon would be on his insurance during a top gear episode.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YAdKOTPw9Q

As to these people complaning that the car should have airbags in the first place IT DOES. It just does not have these new type of airbags they just started mandating.

Oh gosh darn, I was all ready to buy 3 of these.

America rocks. This is great news, let’s keep this POS out of the country.

Ohh Reb don’t tell us not to post here if we can’t afford a Veyron… I’m sure you can’t and if you can then prove it
They should make it exempt from the mandate like they did with Ferrari… this isn’t made for safety but for speed.
I’m sure the insurance costs a TON on this car… I would love to see if anybody has a quote for it

If they think they can’t do airbags for less that $100,000 per car, then they have much worse problems than this.