I'm at a toll gate at the foot of Mont Blanc - or Monte Bianco, this being the Italian side - about to leave the autostrada and depart up the heart-stoppingly beautiful and twisty San Berdardino Pass. Ahhhh: here's a policeman in hi-vis vest, about to make a pull. I crawl past at walking speed. He looks at the Bugatti Veyron, the fastest and by far the most powerful and expensive car ever sold. And at me inside. I look back. He doesn't raise his arm to stop me. Well, his colleagues obviously aren't being particularly vigilant today, because just a couple of minutes earlier I had been coming up his motorway at the far side of 180mph. Or some 230 per cent of the speed limit.
Reckless? Insane? This astonishing car argues otherwise. It's actually capable of 250mph: making 180 is an absolute cinch to it.
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