This video is now 7 years old so I'm not expecting any response, but I just wanted to say that I've always had an interest in cars, but it was this channel and your wonderful enthusiasm and descriptive commentary that really turned my interest into a passion!
What I like about this is Harry makes the car normal. Most Bugatti videos are all "OMG, I hope I wreck the car and kill a thousand people in this unmanageable monster!!!" Harry just drives it around, pokes it through villages, zooms some twisties like he was... driving a car. Good on y', Harry.
Bugatti must really like Harry to let him drive a Vitesse for 1000 miles like a regular car! Thats certainly why i like his videos, always using amazing cars and putting then to the test in great adventures!
The M. M. is just the place to show off that car. Almost everyone who is participating is the exact demographic that they want to market to. In my opinion the Vitesse being the mechanical marvel that it is, ends up almost dead last in style, and spirit of the Mille Miglia.
Well, Cristian; this is what it looks like to see a man that put in his time in the trenches and is now reaping the benefits of having well-connected and wealthy friends who want to have ‘the most interesting man in Britain’ show off their cars.
Harry and Tiff, my two favorite presenters. They're the best at describing the actual qualities of a car, instead of rambling on about flappy paddles and boot-space. Harry, if you read this, please invite Tiff on a drive and post it up asap. I'd enjoy it if you both just romped around in a Honda S2000.
I believe this is my favorite video yet from your channel. The hand held camera and brutal noises from the Veyron make for a visceral experience!! Thanks Harry!
Remember driving around Tuscany - this very area in fact - in a Volvo V40 Turbo about two decades ago (around the time of the earthquake in Assisi). Would highly recommend it - the drive not the car!!
@@Chuck-gd9rr naaah. almost every brit ive ever talked to had some sort of british accent. taken from my experience (young) germans are the best at speaking english without any accent at all.
An amazing combination of speed, more of that than any other production-car! Ever! And comfort, heaps of that too. And, and a service-interval of 10,000mls!!! Like any ordinary car! Making it utterly fuss-free, unheard of even for a car with half this amount of power. Bauhaus 1930`s design outside, and retro "steam-punk" luxury perfection inside. Quite incredible that those qualities are combined in one car. A phenomenal combination. I very much doubt that any manufacturer will ever do anything like approach that.
Sensational video Harry. Reminds me of the segment on Top Gear with the Bugatti. This had 1/1000 the budget, but was 1000x better. It put you there in the car, and that’s what a car video should do.
9:58 the lightning quick 58-94 in just 4s with I'm guessing a high gear too. If the gear was lower, I can only imagine how many laws you would've broken haha! Stupidly crazy Bugatti are.
I know this was uploaded almost 2 years ago & I don't think anyone will be responding to this but I have to ask. What have been the 4 cars that Mr.Metcalfe has gone to the Mille Miglia with? 2010-???? 2011-Ferrari 550 Barchetta 2012-Alfa Romeo 2013-Bugatti Veyron Vitesse Thank you to anyone who can answer this.
what a fantastic video, I didnt know i could feel this jealous before. Doing the mile Miglia in a car that isn't even yours is way better than owning it. 14:11 holy shit the sound is glorious, plane like
one of my first cars was a fifties VW in Munich with the small rear window. You learned to drive by leaning slightly forward for better visibility.Harry does the same here. The A posts on this car are not my cup of tea. (Porsche 914 removable roof is still the best).
For such an incredible machine you'd think they'd at least make the engine sound half decent. Compared to awesome sound of that BMW toward the end, no comparison.
3:56 For all of you wonderful poor people who were appalled by the sinister and cynical way Bugatti chooses their customers, will be happy to know that Dr.Stefan Brungs, who our lovely host is referring to, has been fired from the position of Bugatti Marketing Director and currently serves in the position of General Manager for the Swiss division of Hilding Anders company, the mattresses and beds manufacturer.
It's no different to how Ferrari chose the owners of a limited edition Ferrari is it, Ferrari want you to have owned (or still own) a variety of there halo cars Bugatti want a certain net worth.
@@Bryan-fg3ey Ferrari wants costumers that are loyal to the brand, regardless of quantities and owning every model, there are quite a few stories of Ferrari declining cars to vary important/rich/relevant (ex Ferrari drivers, etc) in favour or true Ferrari enthusiasts that might had to scrap some coins to get that halo, but they always were not only faithful but fairly good costumers or friends.
back in the day when people actually drove long distances in the hypercars, don't see very many laF, p1, Chiron doing whole gumball 3000 like Enzo, CGT, SLR use to do... just ambling around Monaco & London high streets
I can honestly say that after watching this video a would never want a Veyron, the noise levels in that cabin are just ridiculous, what enjoyment can there be in that, none for me I'm afraid. I will now look down on those in a Veyron and think you're ego has ruined your decision making skills. Not for me. Great video as usual and a real insite into a car I will never be able to afford, but now I know if I could I wouldn't 😭
Harry how have you managed to get younger with age? Are you sponsored by Clinique for men.... going back 5 years and you look older! Content is still just as good!
If Bugatti (or whomever the current parent company is) is losing money on every Veyron sold, then they would do well to at least break even, considering the fact that they've already sold a reasonable quantity of the model. Boy that Harry really was in luck when he was invited to drive that car!
Watching the Harry Mille videos in order, very cool. Not sure a Veyron is the best support vehicle. No Ferrari factory drive through for the Veyron! Love to see the Elan do the Mille Miglia though not sure if it qualifies.
I can't think of anything worse than been surrounded by a load of arrogant billionaires, sounds very boring and tedious, dont know how Harry does it, he seems a top bloke
The Michelin tires,,,tyres....are good for 2500 miles and cost $35-40,000 US Dollars.and cannot be installed by any old tire business. You don't want to know the cost of maintenance and insurance and property tax.
so... a thousand miles... a standard measure we inherited from imperial Rome... the Roman mile was so many paces for Roman soldiers marching along the roads they built across Europe.. I'm not sure if this race uses the old Roman measure... or the statute mile... a British improvement and a little longer than the original, by act of Parliament... a mile is the length of a furrow one man and a team of oxen can plow in one day... presumably without a lunch break... but I don't know... 😁
Not having the means, I'll never be in the market for such a car but, even if I was lucky enough to afford one, I can't really see the attraction. In the first place, it's a fortune of money that could be spent on something useful rather than a toy but, even if one had not one egalitarian bone in one's body, I think the fuss of ownership would be somewhat sapping. Years ago, I worked freelance as a mechanic and got to drive all sorts of exotic machinery and, though it was always a treat, it wasn't necessarily always fun. I now have a very slow second hand car and still enjoy my driving with none of the pressures. There's a lot to be said for simple motoring and just blending into the background. Having said that, I'm currently re-engineering and re-bodying an MG Midget; it will be both a bit different and un-ostentatious.... and with only 100 horses, not that fast either. It will however be fun, practical and a bit different.
Same as you - same as Harry - same as anyone: social media and the comments sections that accompany the posts are for opinion and comment. I doubt anyone cares a fig about my opinion; oh wait, you do - you don't agree - fair enough.
+john marsh you're absolutely right of course, such achievements are admirable and often have implications for the designs of future mass market cars and, indeed, other applications. I'm in awe of the engineering though lacking the desire ever to own such a machine. For me the joy of motoring is no longer attached to speed - and if it were I'd probably be a danger to others anyway.
I'm with you, I now own a 2015gtc, it's quite powerful and lots of torque, but even that is to refined to be fun. Fun is a bad word, as it is fun. But you need to be pushing it quite hard to get to the limit. Jump in an old Peugeot 105, and you can have lots of fun at speeds that won't get you in trouble. You'll probably want a 205gti, but even that is underpowered on comparison to today's variants. I like the refinement of modern cars, but always enjoy riding it old hatchbacks, even the crappy one.
This video is now 7 years old so I'm not expecting any response, but I just wanted to say that I've always had an interest in cars, but it was this channel and your wonderful enthusiasm and descriptive commentary that really turned my interest into a passion!
What I like about this is Harry makes the car normal. Most Bugatti videos are all "OMG, I hope I wreck the car and kill a thousand people in this unmanageable monster!!!" Harry just drives it around, pokes it through villages, zooms some twisties like he was... driving a car. Good on y', Harry.
Bugatti must really like Harry to let him drive a Vitesse for 1000 miles like a regular car! Thats certainly why i like his videos, always using amazing cars and putting then to the test in great adventures!
The M. M. is just the place to show off that car. Almost everyone who is participating is the exact demographic that they want to market to. In my opinion the Vitesse being the mechanical marvel that it is, ends up almost dead last in style, and spirit of the Mille Miglia.
Well, Cristian; this is what it looks like to see a man that put in his time in the trenches and is now reaping the benefits of having well-connected and wealthy friends who want to have ‘the most interesting man in Britain’ show off their cars.
Harry and Tiff, my two favorite presenters. They're the best at describing the actual qualities of a car, instead of rambling on about flappy paddles and boot-space. Harry, if you read this, please invite Tiff on a drive and post it up asap. I'd enjoy it if you both just romped around in a Honda S2000.
I believe this is my favorite video yet from your channel. The hand held camera and brutal noises from the Veyron make for a visceral experience!! Thanks Harry!
Tiff & Harry are my kind of people.
Hate Tiff.
tiff is god.
Dr Chunky Biscuit What possible reason could you have for hating Tiff? I know you are probably some bs troll, but just in case not I really wonder.
true
Tiff is a great racing driver, not a car expert. Harry isn't a racing driver but definitely a car expert.
Remember driving around Tuscany - this very area in fact - in a Volvo V40 Turbo about two decades ago (around the time of the earthquake in Assisi). Would highly recommend it - the drive not the car!!
Harry is fabulous - his boyish enthusiasm is addictive...
Every time I watch one of Harry's video's, I have another item to add to my bucket list
Gonna need a big bucket.
I like these cars. Indeed, I'm giving serious consideration to part exing my Peugeot 106d for one....
Bib The Boulder dont think youll get that far
Bib The Boulder Don’t let them low ball you on the trade in.
Feeling you Bib... ✊🏻
What colour will you have ? 😂
@@paulhiggins4007 Sadly the dealers valuation was a few million lower than I expected.....
why so little views for an excellent vid
Only so many people can withstand the British accent.
Ironically, Brits are the only people that (usually) don’t have an accent when speaking English.
@@Chuck-gd9rr
naaah. almost every brit ive ever talked to had some sort of british accent.
taken from my experience (young) germans are the best at speaking english without any accent at all.
Not even Harry's brilliance is immune from the Tiff Needell effect.
Billionaire problems
An amazing combination of speed, more of that than any other production-car! Ever! And comfort, heaps of that too. And, and a service-interval of 10,000mls!!! Like any ordinary car! Making it utterly fuss-free, unheard of even for a car with half this amount of power. Bauhaus 1930`s design outside, and retro "steam-punk" luxury perfection inside. Quite incredible that those qualities are combined in one car. A phenomenal combination. I very much doubt that any manufacturer will ever do anything like approach that.
To combine all this together means it weighs two tons of course, but I think that makes it all the better. "Planted" it certainly is!
I love the idea you can have the ownership experience, without the grief and expense of actually owning one.
Absolute dream this Bugatti Veyron Grand Vitesse in kind of blue black. Very lucky Harry..Like this a lot! Impressive drive!
Beautiful scenery...thanks Harry.
13:25 it sounds amazing
No matter how quickly an electric car can go, it will never arouse the passions like a performance petrol does.
Sensational video Harry. Reminds me of the segment on Top Gear with the Bugatti. This had 1/1000 the budget, but was 1000x better. It put you there in the car, and that’s what a car video should do.
Wow Tiff Needell!! I can tell from his voice, he is my one of my favourites. Wow he is a friend of Harry!!
What a lovely car and really enjoyed the video thanks.
Gosh that engine sounds like a living breathing thing under heavy load. what a wonderful car
that unknown model BMW towards the end does make a nice sound.
9:58 the lightning quick 58-94 in just 4s with I'm guessing a high gear too. If the gear was lower, I can only imagine how many laws you would've broken haha! Stupidly crazy Bugatti are.
Harry must be a super high profile man, to have access to such cars.. Very nice of you to show us them!
How Moss (and others) managed to average such a high speed over those roads in 1960s is incredible!
Love revisiting old Harry's Garage
"Well that is odd if we're in the lead, how have we managed that?" - It's clearly down to the extra 200bhp from the high octane fuel Harry!
I can't believe snobs hate on the Bugatti's engine note. It sounds like a crazy professor's evil machine! A symphony of awesome.
I was in Pisa the day the MM rolled through in 2014. What a spectacle!
Sounds like darth vader scuba diving! Did like the comment about best steering for a VW group product...
Really made me laugh when Tiff ran up to your Vitesse just as you were talking about him.
And so what everytime when you want to put out the roof you have to call to the Buggati's headquarter for a personell to do that?
I know this was uploaded almost 2 years ago & I don't think anyone will be responding to this but I have to ask.
What have been the 4 cars that Mr.Metcalfe has gone to the Mille Miglia with?
2010-????
2011-Ferrari 550 Barchetta
2012-Alfa Romeo
2013-Bugatti Veyron Vitesse
Thank you to anyone who can answer this.
I did 2010 Mille Miglia in a Jaguar C-Type but this was before we did videos. Story appeared in evo Magazine. Thanks for watching..
Holy shit, 2 years old and he responded. That is dedication Harry.
Thank you so much for the response. Yeah Jaguar designs are great. Shame about the C-X75 not going into production.
Love this content so much, surprised I have not seen this before!
Hehe, filling up with 98 “otherwise we’ll lose two hundred horsepower”. Oh my, then it’s down to a mere thousand hp? Can’t have that!
i'll be sure to remember!
what a fantastic video, I didnt know i could feel this jealous before. Doing the mile Miglia in a car that isn't even yours is way better than owning it. 14:11 holy shit the sound is glorious, plane like
it sounds like a train, so smooth
Beautiful car and beautiful scenery would love to drive around there
one of my first cars was a fifties VW in Munich with the small rear window. You learned to drive by leaning slightly forward for better visibility.Harry does the same here. The A posts on this car are not my cup of tea. (Porsche 914 removable roof is still the best).
Harry, as you wrapped up the video in the dark, you looked really tired. Thanks for going through all of that for us. We appreciate it.
Fantastic ! Thank You !
Jeezus, all I can hear is just an orchestra of turbocompresser whine from that thing. Sounds like KITT from Knightrider. Very unique sound.
really nice glimpse into the race and the car
The fiat 500 had 500 , 600 and 750 cc motors :) S'Marino is an independent State, a financial Paradise
with low tax. :)
One of the nice things about Harry is that he does not have an ego
I like you're video's Harry, keep it up 👍
What an exciting video, a really good one Harry.
Veyron is like Hulk dressed in a suit
All 'FINE & DANDY' it seems, apart from the noise.
tiff, harry and vic for top gear what a show that would be.
Ian Miller 2 of them have already done top gear. 2 of them are the reason we got new top gear.
Was I the only one who was holding his breath when he drove through that arch at 12:37? Must've been quite narrow.
RIP Stirling Moss
that whiny noise in the Veyron would drive me nuts! Dont care how good it was ...
Sounds great!
For such an incredible machine you'd think they'd at least make the engine sound half decent. Compared to awesome sound of that BMW toward the end, no comparison.
There he is! Tiff ya legend. (its like being around the best of old friends, and iv never even met these people lol)
3:56 For all of you wonderful poor people who were appalled by the sinister and cynical way Bugatti chooses their customers, will be happy to know that Dr.Stefan Brungs, who our lovely host is referring to, has been fired from the position of Bugatti Marketing Director and currently serves in the position of General Manager for the Swiss division of Hilding Anders company, the mattresses and beds manufacturer.
It's no different to how Ferrari chose the owners of a limited edition Ferrari is it,
Ferrari want you to have owned (or still own) a variety of there halo cars
Bugatti want a certain net worth.
I see no problem with that.
@@Bryan-fg3ey Ferrari wants costumers that are loyal to the brand, regardless of quantities and owning every model, there are quite a few stories of Ferrari declining cars to vary important/rich/relevant (ex Ferrari drivers, etc) in favour or true Ferrari enthusiasts that might had to scrap some coins to get that halo, but they always were not only faithful but fairly good costumers or friends.
On his CV it says - You make your bed and you gotta lie on it.
I wish Tiff would present Top Gear again.
Very nice channel Harry,keep it up :o)
You and Tiff should do a tv show together !
Some of the drivers don't seem to worry much about crossing the centreline.
Very cool video thanks for sharing
back in the day when people actually drove long distances in the hypercars, don't see very many laF, p1, Chiron doing whole gumball 3000 like Enzo, CGT, SLR use to do... just ambling around Monaco & London high streets
I can honestly say that after watching this video a would never want a Veyron, the noise levels in that cabin are just ridiculous, what enjoyment can there be in that, none for me I'm afraid.
I will now look down on those in a Veyron and think you're ego has ruined your decision making skills.
Not for me.
Great video as usual and a real insite into a car I will never be able to afford, but now I know if I could I wouldn't 😭
They had the roof off for half the video....
Harry how have you managed to get younger with age? Are you sponsored by Clinique for men.... going back 5 years and you look older! Content is still just as good!
Great video!
13:22 wow that's awesome
Great vid. Veyron sounds swishy
If Bugatti (or whomever the current parent company is) is losing money on every Veyron sold, then they would do well to at least break even, considering the fact that they've already sold a reasonable quantity of the model.
Boy that Harry really was in luck when he was invited to drive that car!
Reverend Eslam What I think is crazy that you can't get billionaires to pay enough for the car to make a profit.
Eric Kelsey The problem is that most billionaires are old fuddy-duddies who would prefer a Roller or Bentley.
1.7 mill and you get an umbrella for a roof .If MG or any other lesser car mark come out with that they would have the s#it ripped out of them
I guess the van and man is included in the purchase price to carry the roof when you buy one.
If my Veyron didn't come with at least two slaves, I would be pretty disgusted.
id love to take my car down there ;-) great video harry, keep um coming
I would say the same thing but both my sports cars (Toyota MR2 and Porsche 911) have been sold :(
More power to you Harry!
LOL, Ferrari is intimidated by the Bugatti.
How outrageous is that Veyron !
Media Veyron > News Chopper. :D
Watching the Harry Mille videos in order, very cool. Not sure a Veyron is the best support vehicle. No Ferrari factory drive through for the Veyron! Love to see the Elan do the Mille Miglia though not sure if it qualifies.
Certainly, as grand as the Veyron is, it still followed a Ferrari.
Love your videos. You should invest in a wireless microphone to pin to your collar and ditch the camera mics.
14:05 the fun begins...
What a car!
I've always had fun with small cars...this looks like fun
Loved it harry
Ah well Harry it looks as if i'm not going to get an invitation into the Bugatti customers club then ?
I suspect more people have reviewed the Bugattis then actually own one.
Bugattis are like boats: It's best when driving someone else's.
It sounds like, what I imagine sitting inside of a jet engine sounds like
More like working in a steel factory.
This man did a 1000 miles in a veyron vitesse...
When they started screaming i was like o shyt 😭😭
If you get a gimbal for your mobile/camera it'll look so much greater for your driving shots to avoid so much shake
must be difficult to follow behind this FIAT 1100 Coupe from 1947 with 40 something hp when the Bugatti has over thousand of them .
That sounds like a fire breathing dragon. A real animal, and you wonder why your always the first car. 🤣
I can't think of anything worse than been surrounded by a load of arrogant billionaires, sounds very boring and tedious, dont know how Harry does it, he seems a top bloke
Most share the same craziness for cars in a similar way of his.
What is a 1970's MGB doing in the Mille Miglia?
The Michelin tires,,,tyres....are good for 2500 miles and cost $35-40,000 US Dollars.and cannot be installed by any old tire business. You don't want to know the cost of maintenance and insurance and property tax.
million dollar maintenance.
Having trouble overtaking the fiat , Harry , lol ...
OOH LOVELY!
TIFF Needell! Fantastic. I guess HARRY being the kind of Aristo that he is, is likely to be pals with some legends!
so... a thousand miles... a standard measure we inherited from imperial Rome... the Roman mile was so many paces for Roman soldiers marching along the roads they built across Europe.. I'm not sure if this race uses the old Roman measure... or the statute mile... a British improvement and a little longer than the original, by act of Parliament... a mile is the length of a furrow one man and a team of oxen can plow in one day... presumably without a lunch break... but I don't know... 😁
TIFF!
what's this "EVO TV" of which Mr. Metcalfe speaks?
Evo magazine
@@barrybritcher right. But Evo >>TV
I love your volkswagen Harry
Not having the means, I'll never be in the market for such a car but, even if I was lucky enough to afford one, I can't really see the attraction. In the first place, it's a fortune of money that could be spent on something useful rather than a toy but, even if one had not one egalitarian bone in one's body, I think the fuss of ownership would be somewhat sapping. Years ago, I worked freelance as a mechanic and got to drive all sorts of exotic machinery and, though it was always a treat, it wasn't necessarily always fun. I now have a very slow second hand car and still enjoy my driving with none of the pressures. There's a lot to be said for simple motoring and just blending into the background. Having said that, I'm currently re-engineering and re-bodying an MG Midget; it will be both a bit different and un-ostentatious.... and with only 100 horses, not that fast either. It will however be fun, practical and a bit different.
Nick Nakorn uhm ok..
+Nick Nakorn Why do you feel the need to pontificate your opinion? Why should anyone care what you really think?
Same as you - same as Harry - same as anyone: social media and the comments sections that accompany the posts are for opinion and comment. I doubt anyone cares a fig about my opinion; oh wait, you do - you don't agree - fair enough.
+john marsh you're absolutely right of course, such achievements are admirable and often have implications for the designs of future mass market cars and, indeed, other applications. I'm in awe of the engineering though lacking the desire ever to own such a machine. For me the joy of motoring is no longer attached to speed - and if it were I'd probably be a danger to others anyway.
I'm with you, I now own a 2015gtc, it's quite powerful and lots of torque, but even that is to refined to be fun. Fun is a bad word, as it is fun. But you need to be pushing it quite hard to get to the limit.
Jump in an old Peugeot 105, and you can have lots of fun at speeds that won't get you in trouble. You'll probably want a 205gti, but even that is underpowered on comparison to today's variants.
I like the refinement of modern cars, but always enjoy riding it old hatchbacks, even the crappy one.
Love the two of these guys, both Harry and Tiff.