Orange County Register

As a car lover, this is something you just cringe at the thought of: A Bugatti Veyron, one of the world’s most expensive and fastest production cars, going out of control and landing in the thick muck of a lagoon.

This was the sad case on Wednesday in Texas when such a car, valued at $2 million, went off an interstate near Omega Bay and ended up in a saltwater lagoon.

According to the Galveston County News, the male driver of the 16-cylinder, 1,001-horsepower supercar was looking for real estate in Galveston when “a low-flying pelican distracted him.”

From  there the driver, who did not identify himself (would you?) “jerked the wheel, dropped his cell phone, and the car’s front tire left the frontage road and entered a muddy patch, which foiled his attempt to maneuver away from the lagoon,” reports the County News.

The real kicker for us car nuts is this sentence in the article: The Veyron’s powerful engine gurgled like an outboard motor for about 15 minutes before it died.

Oi.

While the driver was not hurt, the precious car had to be towed out of the lagoon. We can’t even imagine the damage done to this automotive wonder.

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