I know very little about cars, I can admit that. In fact, I happily admit it. I think there's no shame in not knowing about cars. I can drive a stick and have been known to go 88 MPH on occasion (just to see if it would work without a flux capacitor), but before last night I had no idea what a Bugatti Veyron was.
My life has now changed forever.
Not because I'm now aware (as Wikipedia informed me) that money is lost by Bugatti on every Veyron made, but because I watched a Bugatti Veyron go head to head with a Eurofighter Typhoon in a two-mile drag race on Top Gear. That's right, it's Tuesday so we're talking Monday night television, and Monday night television is Top Gear.
I don't know what I did before I became aware of Top Gear, and I certainly don't know what I'm going to do when its season ends. Sure, How I Met Your Mother is going to come back next week, and I can't express my joy at that, but Top Gear is, well, as I've said before, quite possibly the best show on television. In fact, I'm going to say that between Top Gear and HIMYM being on next Monday night, I just might experience the perfect night of television. It will be, I imagine, televisual bliss.
But, as for last night's bit of Top Gear-genius, they had this car, a Bugatti Veyron drag race against a Eurofighter Typhoon. You see, apparently, about a year ago they raced a Bugatti Veyron against an airplane from Italy to London and the Bugatti won. As the presenters on Top Gear explain it, the RAF was a bit miffed at the notion that the car beat a plane, and suggested that perchance, just perchance, if the Bugatti went up against one of their fighters the Bugatti would lose.
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1 - bmckee
An absolutely amazing show. There's nothing like it in North America, mainly because our automotive journalists take the whole thing very, very seriously. Clarkson and co. have fun with cars, except of course when Hammond was nearly killed.