THE VEYRON.

We were in Knightsbridge in London last week where S-classes, Ferraris, Bentleys and Lamborghinis aren't even worth a second look they're SO common, but even such jaded individuals as ourselves had to stop and take a photo of the new Bugatti Veyron. A rebirth of the classic brand under the Volkswagen group, the Veyron not only boasts a 16 (!) cylinder engine which produces over 1000 horsepower, it also accelerates from 0-60 in 2.5 seconds (!!), can top 250 mph (!!!) and has a basic price of about 1.5 million US dollars (!!!!).

Rather less incredibly, it was being driven by a couple of twenty-something Arab kids who had illegally parked to rush inside Louis Vuitton (a fashion emergency obviously), intelligently leaving the car outside, unoccupied, with the engine RUNNING.

Of course you'd have to be colourblind to steal a car in that colour combo - even worse, on the back of the car the owner had his initials stencilled in large orange script... Nice to know you still can't buy taste, no matter how rich you are.

Personally we'd rather have one of these (parked a couple of blocks away).