One of the easiest ways to violate the law in most countries is getting yourself behind the wheel of a car and, we’ll say, losing track of your speed. It’s very easy to find yourself going too fast, or fail to slow down when the speed limit changes, and sometimes we’re just speeding because we’re in a hurry. One Austrian Bugatti owner made this mistake and suffered severely for it, losing their car and their license.
The scene of the crime was the Ringstrasse boulevard in Vienna, Austria. The 38-year-old driver reportedly drove his 1,600-horsepower Bugatti Chiron (possibly a 1-of-20 Noire model, or styled similarly) past the Austrian parliament building at around 78 mph, which is more than twice the posted speed limit of 50 kph, or 31 mph, in the area. A roadside speed trap first caught the bandit in the act, with Austrian police acting quickly and reportedly impounding the car immediately, while revoking the driver’s license.
Last summer, the country announced a new nationwide initiative to crack down on speeding drivers. The new rule is simply that if you exceed the speed limit by 60 kph (37 mph) or more, you could have your vehicle confiscated and then sold by the government. If you’re going to break the law, maybe don’t do it in your multi-million-dollar supercar. Then again, that’s when we’re all most likely to commit car crimes, behind the wheel of something so powerful. The car features a quad-turbocharged 8.0-liter W16 engine for goodness’s sake.
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Depending on spec or year, it looks like used Bugatti Chiron models still go for millions of dollars each, with some on DuPont Registry asking for between $3 million and $6 million currently, so the Austrian government could do the funny thing and make bank on this guy speeding, if it wanted to make more headlines.
The new Austrian policy is inspired by strict neighboring Switzerland’s similar laws. Austria has been facing rising traffic fatalities, mostly due to excessive speed, for the past four years, and is aiming to curb that figure with this new law.
Source: ModernCarCollector
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