March 06, 2007
This Looks Like a Job for Maaco!

Supercar owners, like their more common SUV cousins, sometimes need to be reminded the laws of physics still apply to them. Smashing a Bugatti Veyron doing 100 mph in a 40 mph zone in the rain is quite an accomplishment! You get a gold star!

The damage doesn't look any worse than a "substantial" crash of any other sort of car. Were it, say, an Audi or a Jaguar, I'd judge it to be expensive to fix but not a write-off*. However, this Bugatti is mostly carbon fiber (if not completely), so who knows? They might be able to screw the nose off and put a new one on, or there may be cracks that go all the way through to the back bumper.

Definitely glad it wasn't my car.

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* Being a car guy who is a) into classic cars that often need bodywork and b) was somewhat... careless... early in his driving career, I'm actually pretty well versed in how body repair assessments work. I'm not a professional insurance adjuster, but I could probably play one on TV.

Posted by scott at March 06, 2007 08:29 AM

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