Being so quick and so capable of almost invisibly masking its pace at the best of times, Veyron is also cleverly sorted to ensure the driver is still able to control the car if he or she by chance arrive at a corner apex a little too quickly?

Sublime stopping

Firstly those monster carbon ceramic brakes offer sublime stopping and then its Haldex coupling differential is set up to apportion power to the front wheels first, before bringing the rear end alive. That helps the car turn and maintains a more neutral attitude even if it is a little over the average driver's limits?

Interestingly Veyron Grand Sport has a triple top speed set-up — it allows you to run 407km/h with the hardtop fitted, 360km/h with the roof down and 160km/h with the get-me-home soft top fitted?

Double almost everything on the market in just about every respect, Veyron Grand Sport?s party trick of course, is that, removable polycarbonate roof. Costing a cool R15-million in Europe before duties and taxes (around twenty-five bar landed in SA) or as much as a brand new Audi R8 V10 for you and your ten best friends, Bugatti makes no bones in emphasising that the open Veyron has no cars as rivals, but it is rather a choice between your next few race winning horses, a luxury yacht or a new holiday villa or two on the Cote d' Azure...

Only 150 Grand Sports will be built — you can tell it apart by the taller the windshield, LED day lights and s and a new Puccini sound system. There's a little more use of carbon fibre in both its chassis (to strengthen the chassis that now lacks its roof and bring a little extra to the looks) so it weighs about 100kg more than the coupe, but its 1250Nm and those 750kW somehow mask that.

So what will it be, honey — the Franschhoek wine estate, the farm next to Kruger Gate or the Grand Sport?