20-year old Dutchman gets Bugatti Veyron confiscated by police for speeding 80km/h over the limit

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Dutch police confiscated a 20-year old man's license and his parents' Bugatti Veyron after he drove at twice the prevailing speed limit. The man was doing 160 km/h (99 mph) in an 80 km/h (50 mph) zone in Rotterdam on Monday. At €1.8 million (US$2.4 million) for a Veyron, this has turned out to be quite an expensive joyride for the youth.

The Veyron is regarded as one of the fastest production cars ever made. Top Gear once put its top speed claims to the test at VW's private track and they achieved 407.9 km/h (253.5 mph) on a flat straight surface. However, there some other tuners putting that to the test lately.

Two days before in a separate incident, police in Plaatweg Stellendam in South Holland arrested a 22-year old man who rode his motorcycle at 197 km/h (122 mph) in an 80km/h zone. He also lost his license.

Source: dutchdailynews.com via autoblog.com

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madness

Id be seriously disgusted if i was that young chap. Foolish thing to do tho...

April 30, 2010 10:58 am

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THEBENCHMARK

I don't think it was his fault. I heard his big wooden shoe got jammed on the accelerator.

May 7, 2010 2:09 pm

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9TNine

Bit strict of the Dutch, innit? Land of legal drugs and sex, yet you can't drive fast? Tallest race in the world now. It's the drugs!

April 30, 2010 11:17 am

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scratchy996

the law is the law, 80km/h more than allowed is a lot. if it was a Sandero, then it wouldn't be in the news. the law shouldn't discriminate in favour of the rich and reckless.

April 30, 2010 12:19 pm

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ShinyG

Welcome to socialist Europe, where property means jack s*** to the state! So they took his license, he's off the street. Problem sold? No, 'cuz the state still needs to make money off people's mistakes! They should also punish all his 1st and 2nd grade relatives for his awful crime to make sure nobody ever does it again! Using the same figgin' MO, the police should also confiscate (aka cut off) his arms if he was stealing. This, of course, besides jailing him and fining the hell out of him with about 99% of his income. If that's the law around there, the law is crap!

April 30, 2010 2:38 pm

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bbrs

@9TNine Mate, Montenegrins, Serbs and Croats are the tallest nations in the world...

April 30, 2010 2:49 pm

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State of South Australia, Australia would take this car and if it was his 3rd offense in ANY car this car would then be destroyed, yes Crushed. ANY car with more than 150 HP is capable of exceeding speed limits like the Veyron, that is why I can never understand Boguns who call for MORE POWER all the Time...WHAT FOR??, You can not use it in most countries without the prospect of being heavily fined, loss of license and loss of car, all except the mighty USA, about time the USA got with the rest of the world, only 20% of all US states have speed detection or stop light camera devices....Lucky You.

April 30, 2010 9:39 pm

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scratchy996

@ bbrs , zdravo. the Massai are the tallest people, but they are an ethnic group. as a country , the Dutch are still the tallest.

May 1, 2010 9:20 am

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9TNine

@A Back in the late 1990?s (I think) the authorities put a speeding camera in the back of an unmarked van and parked it on the roadside. It caught a few speeding motorists. One motorist argued it was against the Constitution and the court threw it out! [as a pommy-b@stard, I never understood the Constitution]. So the State of Colorado could not use speeding cameras to catch and fine speeding motorists... What you don?t realise, compared to Blighty, is there are sooooo many police cars in the USA! They?re everywhere and each is willing to write you a ticket?

May 1, 2010 9:29 am

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Dragos_DreS

Either the kid was a real prick or the cop was. I guess we'll never know.

April 30, 2010 11:54 am

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Siawa

That's why I find this car extremely useless to purchase coz you can never experience it to it's full potential.

April 30, 2010 12:24 pm

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Beemer89

yeh ... thts y.... y dont you buy a KIA ... thts gonna do 80 mph ... which is max speed limit in the most parts of the world....

April 30, 2010 10:47 pm

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Siawa

Why not?

May 3, 2010 9:09 am

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kimbo

I was a passenger in the Lambo LP560-4 and we were doing 235kph in 70 kph zone, and yes, I'm serious (very, very long straight road with double lanes in one direction and opposite direction trafic separated with barrier). It was in central european country, where road laws are not very restrict as in other european countries.

April 30, 2010 12:30 pm

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jerry05cod4

what kind of parents lend their Veyron to their 20 year old kid!

April 30, 2010 1:58 pm

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Thorsteinn

Bet he scored loadz wit tha ladiez.....before he was busted.

April 30, 2010 2:13 pm

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quattrosport

Who cares ?! Are we talking about cars here or press poeple ..... ?

April 30, 2010 2:27 pm

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sub39h

fail

April 30, 2010 4:56 pm

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andrewB

maybe its the only car they own and saved up for so cant afford another one for him to drive, bit late now

April 30, 2010 7:55 pm

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August Horch

Confiscation is a bit of a steep price to pay regardless. I hit 100 mph to work every morning on a 50 mph highway in the middle of a city. But, at 6 am, this is possible. If the kid was doing this on a crowded highway, that would totally be a different story.

May 1, 2010 4:32 am

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IN_ACtion

Greetings from Germany, autobahn country. im just sayin

May 1, 2010 5:14 am

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Kepex

How can they confiscate someone else's car? I'd understand if the car was his own.

May 1, 2010 9:54 am

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DeleteThisAccount

Not really a Dutchman now is he? More like a Dutchild. I'd go find another place to live rather than tell his father he got his 1mil Eur car confiscated. With any luck his trust-fund will pay out earlier... He should have told the cops what my friend (a woman) told them after they stopped her for speeding in her SLK - "I didn't buy this car so I could drive it slowly".

May 1, 2010 11:08 am

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bbrs

@scratchy996 Pozdrav i za tebe. Yes, I know for Massai people, but as you said they are ethnic group. People from Dinaric Alps (Dalmatia, Herzegovina and Montenegro) are the talles in Europe. The average height of people from these parts is 185.6 cm and average Dutch height is 184.3 cm. There are no data for Serbs and Montenegrins, but I suspect that Montenegrins are the tallest because Montenegro is entirely in the Dinaric Alps. P.S. Where are you from? Cheers!

May 1, 2010 12:20 pm

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scratchy996

interesting , i didn't find any data about that. Romanian Banat, with roots in Pancevo. you ?

May 1, 2010 2:19 pm

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bbrs

@scratchy996 Pancevo? Very nice, I have many friends there. :D I am from Belgrade.

May 1, 2010 5:08 pm

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panamera789

will they return the car to you one day? or they just sell it and make profit after confiscating?

May 3, 2010 4:11 am

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saytamaner

Revoke his license, fine him, or trial him if it's a repeat offense, and jail him according to the sentence. All of that would be fair, but no law should allow any government office to confiscate the car.

May 3, 2010 7:02 am

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schizo

My sister lives in Rotterdam...the tax rate for owning a car was surprisingly steep and after having driven for days on the German Autobhn I felt sick driving in Rotterdam because of all the police and the cameras! They have some very nice cars in the Netherlands...but nowhere to drive them!

May 3, 2010 8:17 am

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