"Now, on "Top Gear"..." "It's all about speed." "149?" "Come on!" "We fight to see who can reach 150 miles per hour in the cheapest car possible." " Aw, man!" " Go!" "And the winner gets to drive the fastest production car in the world." "Sourced by:" "David Coleman 150 miles per hour." "For decades, it represented the pinnacle of performance for a production car, and you had to shell out big bucks for an exotic in order to reach it." "But these days, you can hit the 150 mile an hour benchmark without breaking a thing." "And to prove it, we each got an affordable car, a lead foot, and headed out to the Mojave desert." "Whoa, it's a little twitchy." "90." "100 right now, shifting." "110." "No problem." "120." "Come on, come on, come on." "140." "149." "And...50." "Aw, come on." "147, 148." "150!" "Yeah!" "Come on, baby." "Let's go." "148." "150." "Ha ha!" "That's it." "Do you think he knows where to stop?" "So, for as little as 25 grand," "(beep)Even Rut in an econobox could reach this once nearly impossible speed." "But what if you didn't have that kind of cash?" ""Top Gear" gave us a challenge." "We each had to buy a car that could reach the venerable 150 mark for the least amount of money." "Adam's choice came with a mullet." "Wow, Adam." "The banana boat." "You're seeing it, baby." "'95 Trans Am." "It's got the LT1 in it." "Posi rear, borla exhaust, 275 horsepower." "Top speed 155, and I paid... wait for it... 2,600 bucks." " How many miles are on it?" " 180,000." "I think you bought swamp property in Florida with this." "I don't think it's making 150 miles per hour." "It's tired." "It's a Pontiac." "Never gonna happen." "Mm-hmm." "If you want to see what good, cheap speed looks like, it is right here, gentlemen." "Behold the 1994 Infiniti Q45." "Total sleeper." "Wow!" "Sleeper?" "This is a put-you-to-sleeper." "No." "This doesn't go 150 miles per hour." "It never did." "Even brand new, it was 140 miles per hour, maybe." "145 and that's drag limited." "But, see, I only paid 1,700 bucks for the car, so, I spent 700 on 100 shot of nitrous." " You put nitrous in there?" " Nitrous on it and, 'cause I felt like I needed probably another 20 horses," "I put an exhaust cutout so it just dumps straight out." "And I still spent 200 bucks less than you, so, if this works, I win." "That's a big "if."" "I hope you saved 800 bucks for a fire suit, 'cause you are gonna burn." "So, you've made a sleeper, basically by adding nitrous to it, which could be argued is sort of like cheating." "I don't know." " What?" " What?" "I found one of the true sleepers of the nineties." "Is that?" "Yes, it is." "It's a Saab 93 Viggen." "Oh, the Viggen." "Ohh!" "That's a hard to find one." "Viggen." "And it comes in t-shirt blue." "Wow." "Now, this Saab is one of the originators of turbo-charging on the street." "Goes 155 miles per hour electronically limited." "You realize what's happened." "You and I both have V-8s, mm-hmm." "Rear wheel drive." "Uh-huh." "Tanner has a front wheel drive 4-cylinder." "You're going to be like a really fast college Professor with eyebrow dandruff." " Eyebrow dandruff?" " Yeah." "Who knew that was even a problem?" "Ok, how much did you pay for this?" "Well, it's a... obviously, a pretty high brow." "How much?" "3,500 bucks." "American?" "Wow." "Look, if I'm the only one that makes it to 150, I win." "But if you aren't the only one to make it to 150, that would mean you would lose because we spent less." "Yeah, and went faster." " Let's do this." " Yeah." "I'm ready." "Are you sure?" "Yeah, you know what?" "You'll notice because my rear tires will be spinning as I leave here." "Eat your heart out, Tanner!" "Hitting 150 in these cheap old cars could be dangerous." "So, to work our way up to that challenge," ""Top Gear" designed a series of tests to determine their suitability for high speeds." "Our first challenge was at a desert airport 20 miles away." "My dad, actually, owned a Saab." "900S turbo." "It was the first time I'd ever been exposed to the brand." "It was ridiculously fast, and I became addicted to turbo-charged cars." "To me, the Saab is a sleeper rocketship." "To other people, the saab is like a hipster mobile." "They love the fact that it has to be in reverse to get the key out, and that the key switch is down on the ground." "They say it helps you keep the key from being inserted into your kneecap in an accident." "Let's hope that doesn't happen." "When the Trans Am was new, the top speed was 155." "As you can tell, it's no longer new." "I'm not pleased with that banging noise." "I don't know what that is." "But if I use the exhaust..." "I don't hear it as much." "It may seem crazy to have chosen a car that never reached 150, but I knew what I was doing." "The car was drag limited to 145 miles per hour, meaning that air on this car would slow it down to where the car couldn't push it past 145." "With 100 wet shot of nitrous, I think I'm gonna be ok." "The idea is that you blast in nitrous oxide, and it basically crams tons of oxygen in the car, which means you can cram more fuel in, which means you make more power." "In a game where I'm trying to get every horsepower out of a car I can to make up 5 miles per hour, that's gonna count." "I know why these didn't sell better." "Why?" "'Cause the name "Q45" doesn't imply at all that it is, in fact, a rocketship, a race car with 4 doors." " What?" "!" " Or it's terrible." "What are we doing here?" "You can't hit 150 miles per hour if you run out of road." "So, our first challenge would test our cars' acceleration." "Obviously, we'd race a flaming arrow 100 yards to a pile of fuel-soaked boxes which had a prized personal possession resting on it." "We'd only have a 500-yard head start to get up to speed." "If we beat the arrow, a trip wire would dump water and save our valuable stuff." "If our cars were too slow..." "Adam was up first, and he'd be racing to save his collection of ancient mystical discs known as "records."" "Otis Redding is in that." "I got..." "Sam and Dave is in that." "The Beatles' "white" album is in that." "You know who's into record collections?" "Hipsters and old people." " Which one is Adam?" " He is old." " Yeah." " Yeah." "This strategy's pretty much fairly simple." "Stand on the gas, hold on, and save my record collection." "You ready up there, Adam?" "Let's go." "And 3... 2... 1, go!" "You're kidding me." "I got..." "Neil young is in that." "Black sabbath is in that." "Lynrd Skynrd is in that." "Aretha Franklin is in that." "110." "God, it looks fast, actually." "Oh!" "Lit arrow against a Trans Am." "115." "120." "Kill arrow." "Come on, come on, come on." "Come on, come on, come on, baby!" "Yes!" "Ohh!" "Coming up, Rutledge tries to talk to the animals." "Let him take these off my head." "Oh, they're screaming!" "And the winner of the 150 mile per hour challenge drives the fastest production car in the world." "We were in the Mojave desert, competing to reach 150 miles per hour for as little cash as possible." "First up was a test of our cars' acceleration against a flaming arrow." "Lose and a prized possession would go up in flames, as Adam had just demonstrated." "Come on, baby!" " Yes!" " Ohh!" "Oh, no!" "Oh, no!" "Oh, that was huge." "They're..." "they're melting." "Oh, look at that." "[Beep] Don't just stand there!" "Ohh!" "Hey, um, you didn't make it." "All 4 of those carpenters' albums just went right up." "Tanner was up next, and he'd be trying to save his adorable little racing suit." "He won an "X" games gold medal in that." "It's gotta be sentimental." "But it's a fire suit." "It's made to be lit on fire." "Where's the jeopardy?" "It's made to protect you from fire, not... it's not made to be set on fire on purpose." "Well, then, why do you call it a fire suit?" "'Cause it's..." "I... it's gonna..." "I don't..." " It's only an hour show." " Ohh." "I've got to get up to, I would say, at least 100 miles per hour." "It's gonna be, basically, about torque." "That's what the Saab has." "Turbo's good for that." "Turbo-charged fury, save the day." "All right, you ready, pal?" "Born ready." "I hate when he says that." "I know." "3... 2... 1..." "Go!" "Come on, Saab." "Little bit of turbo lag." "It's all about getting good shifts." "Go, go, go!" "There's fourth gear. 95." "100." "Come on!" "There's the arrow!" "There's the arrow!" "Go!" "No!" "No!" "Aah!" "Oh, geez!" "Good lord!" "Oh, ho, ho!" "Ohh!" "Ohh!" "Ohh." "Ohh." "It popped." "It exploded." "I'd better have got that water on there." "It didn't catch on fire." "Well, that sucks." "Turbo-charge power." "Right there." "It had a lot more speed from there to here than I thought it would." "How fast did that thing get out of the hole?" "It's way quicker than I thought it would be." "I'm gonna go get my suit." "Rut and his Q45 were the last to go, and he'd be racing to save his vintage Honda Civic manuals." "Worthless to normal people." "But to him?" "A family heirloom." "Oh, this is..." "This is bad." "Nah, it's only bad if he doesn't make it." "So, now, we're going to find out how important those are to him." "Is he gonna use his nitrous or not?" "Those are like his children." "Rut, you ready?" "I am ready." "Rut, you know how everything works on your Honda Civic, right?" "Not funny, man." "Ok, well, then bring it." "I thought it was kinda funny." "I liked it, too." "Yeah." "Q45, I need you." "We gotta save those manuals." "Let's do it." "Ok, open that exhaust." "Do what you gotta do." "Get that nitrous ready." "In 3... 2..." "Come on, Infiniti!" "1..." "Go!" "There it is." "All right." "Good launch there." "20." "Come on." "Come on, come on, come on." "40." "I don't hear anything." "It's a blaze of boredom." "Oh, I need more speed than this." "Come on, baby." "Come on, baby." "Fast shift, second gear." "That's 85." "90." "And the arrow's fired." "It's not going fast enough." "No!" "I'm going to lose my manuals!" "Oh, no!" "Ohh!" "Ohh!" "That was great." "Is it because there's so many pages?" "I don't know why that was so awesome." "Oh, man." "Your car's are never gonna run again." "Look, there's a wiring diagram." "Very important." "I hope you don't blow a fuse." "Did you push the nitrous button?" "Yeah, why didn't you use your nitrous?" "I'm..." "I mean, I gotta save that." " For what?" " I can't..." "I don't wanna use that now." "I gotta go 150 miles per hour." "I don't wanna waste all that now." "You might as well use it now." "You're never gonna get near 150 miles per hour." "I don't know." "Can I get a ride back to the Saab?" "No, you can walk." "I'm gonna walk 'cause it's faster than that thing." " Probably is." " That's right." "With my speedy Saab victorious, it was time for the second challenge." "All right." "What are we doing?" "Glad you asked." "Ok, if your car is unstable at 150 miles per hour, it will almost certainly kill you." " Ok?" " Fair point." "So, your next challenge will be a test of your car's high speed stability." "To see if our vehicles could hit 150 without rolling, we'd run a slalom course designed to test how controllable the cars were if something went wrong, and to magnify any flaws our cars might have, our regular tires had been replaced with doughnuts." "First to finish wins." "Ok, so, we all go at the same time?" "Yeah." "We all start?" "There's no..." "it's too hot for..." "You guys, I'm..." "I'm just tired of running." "Hands down." "Hands down." "When you run, Rut." "Uh-oh." "All right." "Come on, baby." "Let's do this." "Oh." "Oh, it feels funny." "Oh, there's a rear end." "Hello, limited slip." "Come on, front wheel drive." "Oh, my gosh." "It is an under-steering pig." "Aw, damn it." "Door won't close." "Aw, it's spinning." "It's not handling well at all." "If this is what the "Q" was going to be like at 150," "I could be in trouble." "That's it." "Slide, baby!" "Slide!" "My front wheel drive made it easier to control than Adam and Rut's rear wheel drives, but..." "They're drifting." "They're drifting and having fun." "Oh, he goes around!" "Oh, no!" "What is going on?" "I don't know what state I'm in." "Son of a." "Rutledge is out." "And now, it's down to Adam and I." "He's catching up." "I got you now, race boy!" "No!" "He tanks it." "Yeah!" "Oh, God, we're gonna die!" "Oh, [Bleep]." "Oh, that was amazing." "Think I lost, though." "Ha ha ha!" "Yes!" "Yes!" "Whatever, drifty." "Boy, that's just front wheel drive fury on your face, isn't it?" "You're mad, aren't you?" "You're mad." "I'd beaten Tanner at his own game, but before the big attempt at 150, we had one test left to complete." "Ok, so, you've won something." "You've won something." "Now, I'm ready to win something." " What are we doing?" " All right." "150 miles per hour is so fast, you cover a football field every 1.7 seconds." "A momentary lapse in concentration can mean the difference between life and death." "Your next challenge will test your ability to concentrate under pressure." "Quickest lap wins." "Sounds simple enough." "How are they going to test our concentration?" "Oh, my gosh." "Those are rats." "And this would be a helmet." "Ohh." "Oh, my gosh!" "Ohh!" "I think..." "Ohh!" "Ohh!" "Oh, gross!" "Since Adam and I had each won a challenge, there was no doubt in our minds that Rut was going first." "Put this on your head." "Mm-mmm." "Put this on your head" " and we're gonna put rats in it." " No!" "We had this specially made for your head." " I can't." " Stop whining." "We'd have to navigate this cone course, maneuvering between whichever colors the other guys called out, then, turn around the end flag and race back to the start." "Rut was taking it all in stride." "Oh, God!" "Don't put it on my head, man!" "Holy h... ohh!" "I hear him yelling from here." "I hear him yelling through a helmet through a car." "Ohh!" "Ohh!" "Ohh!" "Oh, God." "Ohh." "Ohh!" "This is awful!" "Ohh, ohh, ohh!" "They're so close to my mouth." "Ohh." "Ok, let's go." "Coming up, Rut conquers his fears." "Oh, no!" "Hold still." "And at 150, this $2.5 million monster is just getting warmed up." "We were at the Mojave Desert trying to reach 150 miles per hour in the cheapest cars we could find." "Tanner and I had each won a challenge leading up to our high speed attempt." "Yes!" "The next challenge would test our concentration." "We had to complete a slalom course while being distracted." "We let the big girl go first." "Ohh!" "This is awful!" "If you yell, you'll only make them mad." "Yep." "Oh, they're..." "oh, they're on my face." "They're all over." "Oh, let's go, let's go." "Someone shut the door." "Call a color." "Ok." "Hold on." "We're getting the stopwatch out." "Ready?" "Uh, stand by." " Go left." " Uh, pink." "Blue." " Pink." " He missed it." " That's blue." " Think it's that one." " Pur... purple." " Where's he going?" "Bl... now, green." " Is he going?" " Blue." "Don't hit the flag." "You don't..." "Go around the flag." "Go around the flag." "Oh, this is the worst thing" "I've ever done in my life." "Oh, get 'em off, get 'em off, get 'em off." "Get these things off of my head." "Get..." "oh, they're screaming!" "Now, they're screaming." "What do I do?" "What do I do?" "Why are they so mad?" "I don't know." "Aah!" "What do I do?" "I can't get out." "Ho... hold still." "Aw, there's..." "I can't get out." " Oh, they are really angry." " Ok." "Don't pull it." "Don't pull it." " Oh, they're pooping!" " Hold on." "I can't relax." "They're in my face." " Hold on." " They're on my face." "Let this one get out of the way." "Ohh!" "You're gonna feel good about..." "I'm afraid if I talk, they'll run in my mouth." "Oh, it smells so bad." "You're doing great." "It smells ungodly bad in here." "Ok, stay still, bubble boy." "Got for that one." "Wait, hold on." "Hold on, Adam." "Hold on, hold on." "Hold still." "Hold still." "Hold still." "You're pinching it." "It can't move." " There you go." "Wait." " Let him out." " There we go." " Let him out." " There we go." " Ok." "I got it." "There we go." "Ok, I'm gonna throw up." "Ok, throw up in the helmet." "Watch your glasses." "Mother." "That's... that's, without a doubt, the worst thing I've ever done in my 32 years of living." "Ok." "Is there [Bleep] on my face?" "No." "No, no." "This is just..." "That could be a sun spot, but it's not." "Ok." " Ok." "Ok." " You're fine." "[Bleep] all over me." "Where's my Saab?" "I'm out of here." "Out of the goodness of our hearts," "Adam and I forfeited and gave Rut the win." "So, each of our cheap cars had won a challenge in preparation for tomorrow's 150 mile per hour run." "The next morning, we headed for El Mirage, a dry lake bed famous for record-breaking high speed runs." "We were all a little bit nervous." "Now, the whole premise of this is to go 150 miles per hour for the least amount of money." "I like my chances as long as the car stays, you know, in one piece, 'cause it's starting to make more noises, and the noises are getting louder." "So, I just need it to hold together for 150 miles per hour." "There's a lot of bad things that could happen." "I could lose a drive shaft." "I could blow a tire." "I could have not installed this nitrous correctly and be sitting on a gigantic barbecue that explodes in my face." "That would suck." "When things happen at 150 miles per hour, your momentum is so strong." "The distance carried while crashing is staggering." "You can roll a car dozens of times from that speed." "Here we are, guys." "El Mirage." "This is it." "The legendary El Mirage dry lake bed." "6 miles of hard-packed clay and not an ambulance in sight." "It's also windy out there." "This is gonna be awesome." " Now we're talkin'" " There we go." "Hee hee." "Did you climb out of the window?" "Yeah." "I had to strap the door shut." "It's ok." "It's more aerodynamic now." "Kind of "Dukes of Hazzard" style, really." "Yeah." "This place is huge." "I want to say it's like being on the moon, but how would you know?" "It's really weird." "You know, it's super hard." "I didn't..." "I've been out here maybe 12 times." "I've never seen it, like, this perfect for top speed running." "So, there's nothing stopping us." "No, it's, like, buttery smooth." "If you're going to hit 150 miles per hour, this is the day to do it." "Now, the one big difference of being out here is you see how wide open it is." "So, if you're going 140 miles per hour and a 20 mile per hour gust of wind comes out of nowhere on your side, you're really going to feel that." "Yeah." "So, what's the biggest thing you're worried about with your car?" "Here's the reality of the Q45." "My whole plan is to work its way up and then, when I know it's good to go," "I'm gonna use the nitrous." "But I've seen way too many of my friends blow a motor up with nitrous before, so, certainly, that's a real possibility." "I'm worried about 2 things." "1, primarily, it's the car staying together." "The girl's rattling, so, I want to get this thing done quickly." "Fair enough." "2, my speedometer might be slightly off." " Slightly." " Yeah, right now, it says I'm doing 40 miles per hour." "To make it official, we'd all use the same GPS to accurately log our speeds." " Let's do it." " Go." "All right." " You all right there?" " I'll be fine." "This was it." "Yesterday's challenges paled in comparison to what lay ahead." "We each had 6 miles and only 1 shot to hit the 150 mile per hour mark." "Adam's $2,600 Trans Am was up first." "You're a brave man." "Look, as long as it stays together, the GPS will read 150." "Ok, just remember, when in doubt, throttle out." "Words to live by." "Good luck." "No chance that will happen." "There we go, baby." "There's no chance that he can get anywhere near 150." "No." "Get on it, baby." "Let's go." "I think he'll do 139." "What are you in for?" "Maybe 137." "Oh, I got a cross breeze." "Go, go, go. 119 come on, come on, come on!" "Aw, she's shakin'." "She's shakin'." "130." "Come on, baby." "Come on." "Get up and run." "Get up and run!" "Come on, baby." "Hold together." "Just one time." "132." "133." "136. [Bleep] it!" "I'm runnin' out of room." "Oh, that just sucked." "Do you think he'll try to lie, even though we've got a camera on the GPS?" "Be like, "160!" "Hey!"" " Hey!" "Is that what he sounds like?" " Yeah." "How much you want to bet he forgot to look at the GPS speed?" "For sure." "He was just..." "Aah!" "I say 137." "You say 139." "What'd you do?" "What did it do?" "136." "No!" "Nothing blew up?" "Nope, nothing blew up." "Noisy." "And..." "it shakes a little bit." "Adam was out." "And as long as Rut's nitrous blew up in his face, victory was mine." "150 miles an hour." "I almost accidentally did 150 on the way over here." "I bet." "The good news is that GPS has a camera on it, so you can't cheat." "Ok?" "So don't even think about it." "I'll see you on the other side of 150." "Peace." "Come on, Saab." "We'll show them how it's done." "You know what, I'm annoyed he has a tail wind." "That's a lot of wind to push a car." "Ok, there's 90." "And 100." "Tightening the belt a little bit." "110." "Wobbling around." "Fifth gear." "No more shifting." "Foot to the floor." "Let's do this." "Holy..." "140 already." "Come on!" "144. 147." "It's making some weird noise." "Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on!" "Quest to find the cheapest car that could go 150 miles an hour, we'd each won a challenge." "Oh, they're screaming!" "Now we were at the legendary El Mirage dry lake bed gunning for 150." "Adam's Trans-Am had only reached 136." "That just sucked." "Now it was my turn." "147!" "It's making some weird noise." "149!" "Come on!" "150!" "Yes!" "That is official." "150 miles an hour." "I'm just gonna keep it going to see what happens." "151!" "No way!" "151!" "No." " Yes!" " No." " Look at the tape." " No." "Absolutely." "Whoo!" "Whoa." "I'm gonna put that right there." "That's what I'm talking about." " You did 151?" " 1-5-1." "You know what, I'm going." "I'm going." "Go." "Turn off your wiper." "I don't know how." "Tanner may have hit 151, but since my car was cheaper, all I had to do was make it to 150 and I'd be the overall winner." "You ready, big daddy?" "Here we go!" "Nitrous!" "150!" " It doesn't look fast." " No." "All right, I'm not gonna use the nitrous yet." "I'm gonna wait till I get to like 100." "All right, there's first gear." "Come on, baby." "Come on." "85, 90." "Second gear." "All right, I am arming the nitrous." "All right, I'm at 100." "Come on." "I don't want to hit it yet." "I don't want to hit it yet." "Oh, boy." "It is really blowing around out here." "There's 130." "I'm hitting it." "Come on, nitrous!" "Spray, baby, spray." "Did it blow up already?" "No, that's just dust." "Come on!" "Whoa." "Little bouncy there." "What?" "I didn't go any faster." "How is that possible?" "That doesn't make any sense at all." "There was only one sensible course of action." "Who's got two thumbs and just went 150?" "He looks like an excited care bear." "On the dot, 150?" "On the nose, 150." "Hard to believe, but it is recorded on camera." "Yeah, I hit 150 and then I stopped." "I don't need to go 159." "I hit 150, I stopped." "I win." "That was so great." "Like, could you feel when you pushed the button?" "Yeah, it was like the car just got up and ran with it." "I felt a little bad lying to the other guys about winning, but the prize waiting for me on the other side of the country would take care of that." "This is the museum of art in Tampa, an incredible building that cost $33 million to build." "It's unique, indulgent, and stunning." "It's beautiful, isn't it?" "To get to see art up close like this." "Something so powerful, so pretty, so shiny." "Who wouldn't want to own it?" "Not the building." "The car." "This is the Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport Vitesse, the most expensive and powerful production car in the world." "It's the latest in a long line of Veyrons, with a polycarbonate roof, more horsepower than ever before, and a price tag of over $2 million." "Do you know how many of these are gonna be made?" "Less than 90." "So the chances of me ever seeing one again are slim." "The chances of me driving one, impossible." "But not today." "She's all mine." "Oh, yeah, the chunky kid from Alabama with bad vision gets to drive a car worth more than $2 million." "Eat that, everybody I went to middle school with, you jerks." "Bugatti trusts me." "Why wouldn't they?" "They just sent all these people to make sure I got the keys ok." "Thank you." "I was told to deliver the Bugatti to a VIP across town." "An epic 6-mile journey that would give us all plenty of time to get to know each other." "Vitesse means speed in French, and that's one thing this car has a lot of." "The Veyron had 1,001 horsepower, and this bad boy has 1,200 horsepower out of an 8-liter engine." "There's 16 cylinders and 4 turbo chargers that'll catapult you from zero to 60 in a g-busting 2.5 seconds." "When you drive this, you just want to feel the power." "You just want to open it up, right?" "We'll get there." "We'll get there." "I'm just..." "I'm just warming it up." "I'm totally not nervous." "Everything's cool." "And besides, downtown isn't the place to reach the Vitesse's top speed of 258 miles per hour, one of the many big numbers you get when you buy a Bugatti." "The registration fee is $235,000." "That's more than a Ferrari 458." "In fact, you could buy 10 Ferrari 458S for the price of this car, or 208 Nissan Versas." "208 cars or this one." "The second I hit the freeway," "I could finally do what I'd been dying to do all day..." "Talk about fuel economy." "You know what's so great about this car is it gets the worst fuel mileage of any car in the U.S." "12 1/2 miles a gallon." "Plus, at full throttle, you can go through a whole tank in 60 miles." "60 miles for an entire tank of gas." "Let's just push the little pedal on the right, see what happens." "Holy cow!" "That is amazing." "Ooh!" "Ooh, it makes my face tingle." "I can't afford to do that again." "If something breaks, I'm toast." "Driving so fast across town, I had time to stop for lunch." "If I could find somewhere to park, that is." "Oh, here we go." "This will work." "So this might be a super car, but it does have a back-up camera if you need it." "And...perfect." "Is that..." "Is that maybe 3 feet?" "Right?" "Yeah." "Should be fine." "These tires cost $40,000 for the set, and they have to be flown over from France." "Plus, there's only one place in the U.S. that can mount them, so just not a chance I can take on a curb, but I can't leave it in the street, either." "All right." "I decided that with the tight spaces and high curbs of Tampa, valet parking was really the only option for a Vitesse." "Are you valet parking your car today?" "Oh, yeah, valet would be great." " Let me just grab you a ticket." " Thank you so much." "Appreciate it." "How old are you, man?" " Um, 21." " 21." "Uh, you know what, why don't..." "Why don't you ride in the passenger's seat and I'll drive." "You just tell me where to go." " Ok." "All right." " How about that?" "We can do that." "Yeah, let's do that." "I just..." "I'd feel a little more comfortable." "And actually..." "Ooh, can you just please be real careful there" " with the leather there - on the..." "Easy." "Easy." "It's a bugatti, ok," " not slamming a Honda Accord door here." " Ok." "You know what, um, I don't want you to take this the wrong way," "I need you to get out." "I'm sorry." "I'm sorry." "It just..." "I'm not..." "It's not you, it's me." "I, um, I love your socks." "Ok." "It's all right." "Thank you, though." "I really appreciate it." "All right." "Kid's gonna drive this thing like Ferris Bueller." "I know he was gonna take off in it." "Ok, so forget lunch." "My journey was almost over, and I had precious little time left to appreciate what I was driving." "You know, for everything about owning a Bugatti that fills me with fear, this really is an incredible car." "And driving it around town, it's so luxurious and so nice, it's like a custom made piece of jewelry." "But the minute that you hit this throttle, it sounds like you are launching a missile behind your head." "Ha ha ha!" "That was awesome." "Did I break anything?" "Did anything break?" "Oh, my gosh, that was great." "This car makes you feel special." "It makes you feel important." "It's so rare that when people see it, they really lose their minds." "Of every cool car I've owned, of every fun race track I've driven on, none of them compare to driving this across town." "It's like a kid that went to space camp going to space." "Besides, I finally found a way I can relax a little." "Thank you, fellas." "Thank you." "Oh, that's nice." "Police blocking it all." "Yeah." "Yeah." "This is how to travel right here." "Unfortunately, my time with the Bugatti was up and now I had to deliver it to one lucky VIP, who, of course, was fashionably late." "Oh, what is this?" "Boy, this guy's a big deal." ""Top Gear" had challenged us to go 150 miles an hour for as little money as possible." "Come on, come on!" "Tanner's Saab actually won, but nonetheless," "I claimed victory." "Who's got two thumbs and just went 150?" "The prize was worth the fib." "Delivering a $2.5 million Bugatti Veyron..." "Holy cow!" "That is amazing." "to a VIP in Tampa, Florida." "Oh, what is this?" "Boy, this guy's a big deal." "Wow." "Are you kidding?" "My God, it is..." "It's more beautiful in person that I would have ever imagined." "You bought a Bugatti?" "No, I'm here to drive a bugatti." "I won the 150 challenge." "You cheated." "Give me the keys." "Give me the keys." "I can't believe..." "Step away from the speed machine." "It's made to go fast." "Just be..." "Be careful." "I'm gonna show you." "You're gonna want to move the seat up." "Just move the seat up." "I don't know if you can reach the pedals." "Oh, I hate good-byes." "He may have fallen in love with the Vitesse, but what Rutledge failed to recognize is this car is built for one thing, and that is speed." "When you plant the throttle, the Vitesse will accelerate faster than an F-16 on take-off." "Now, it's not..." "All about just..." "Jaw-dropping acceleration that will plant you in your seat." "This is ridiculous." "What this car can do is post a top speed that will literally wipe the floor with every other car on the road at any price." "Bugatti has recorded 258 miles an hour on their test track." "And in every single stage to get there, it has ground-breaking technology that I couldn't wait to experience." "At 115 miles an hour, the Vitesse activates a handling mode, drops the whole car two inches, and deploys the biplane rear wing, essentially gluing it to the road." "That sounds like fun, doesn't it?" "But I'm gonna need more road." "I needed somewhere to test the bugatti while breaking every speed limit on the planet." "And this was the perfect place." "20 miles north of Miami, the highway stretches straight as an arrow as far as the eye can see." "This is one of those roads we've all seen that is so straight you can't help but wonder, if there's no chance I'd go to jail, how fast do you think I could go?" "And to make sure that didn't happen, the local sheriff sent in a little help." "Ok, we've got the road locked down for," "I can't say exactly how long, but I know there's a turn down there somewhere that I've got to slow down for." "The surface is not exactly glass smooth, but pretty smooth, and I've got a swamp on both sides." "So in the interest of safety, the producers have been kind enough to provide me with a scooter helmet, which they say is good for 200 miles an hour." "We'll see." "Clearly the Bugatti can reach its top speed on a test track in a controlled environment," "but I had no idea how it would cope with the surface of a heavily used public road." "I'd say the most nerve-racking thing is really the bumps." "Now that the car's sitting so low, any little bump can kind of throw it off." "Ok." "Could I reach a couple hundred miles an hour before hitting the turn?" "There's only one way to find out." "The pull is enormous after first gear." "God, the acceleration is so awesome." "Catching my breath for 130." "140." "150." "Oh, it feels good." "160." "As fast as I can say it." "It's unbelievable." "Bugatti actually had to change out the lightweight aluminum grill for a titanium one after they hit a bird at speed." "Sixth gear." "180." "At full throttle, the Bugatti will go through 26 gallons of fuel in less than 10 minutes." "190." "Holy [Bleep]." "It's so stable." "It's unbelievable." "200!" "At 200 miles an hour, I'm driving a football field every second." "Incredible." "Who do I have to marry to buy me one of these?" "201." "I cannot believe the speed I'm going and how stable it is." "There's a turn coming up." "I gotta slow down." "I gotta slow down." "There's no way I could make that turn at 200." "I'll definitely die." "At 201 miles an hour, the Vitesse was just getting warmed up." "The only thing stopping me from going faster was a curve in the road." "Let's do more of that." "Let's do more of that."