It’s no secret that Bugatti has refused to let Top Gear’s Stig take a Veyron around their test track, despite having loaned them numerous other Veyrons for top speed runs and car vs plane contests. Well, thanks to some very rich individuals over in the UAE, it looks like the Stig will finally get behind the wheel; albeit in the hills of Abu Dhabi and not Dunsford Park.
Reportedly, Top Gear sent out an urgent distress call to anyone willing to lend them a Bugatti Veyron for a “photoshoot.” However, instead of one, they got three. “No other place in the world could we have found three Bugattis in a span of 48 hours,” said Charlie Turner, the creative director for the magazine.
There is also a report of a Koenigsegg CCX taking on two of the 1001hp Bugatti supercars.
We didn’t realize it was a Top Gear event until we went to dinner and a group of Brits sat at the next table and started arguing about how they would cut the shots of three Veyrons doing 200 mph down the Abu Dhabi corniche with the Jebel Hafeet shots…something about the Stig being chased out of town by the Veyrons in a Koenigsegg. - Evolve.ae forum member
The photo to your right is of the Koenigsegg CCX on set with the Veyrons… So by all indications, all of this looks to be true.
[Source: PassatWorld, et al]
