The Picasso of India just bought himself a Bentley. Yes, M F Husain, the Qatari artist of Indian origin walked into a Bentley showroom, chose a car and wanted to take it home right away. What about the payment? He just swiped his credit card.M F Husain, the man who dares to walk barefoot has bought the car. He already has an extensive and expensive lineup of cars. He has a Bentley, two Jaguars, a Mercedes, a Ferrari and Rolls Royce. If you’re thinking the most important car has been missed out, hold on. We just want to emphasize a little more on that special car. Yes, the Bugatti Veyron, which is very much a part of the artist’s garage, hasn’t been forgotten. Only five rich and famous people in the Middle East own a Bugatti Veyron and M F Husain is one among them.
The artist had bought the spanking Bugatti Veyron in Dubai. He has been on exile and is constantly travelling between London and Dubai. This car, however, seems to have been purchased for his son. The million dollar Bugatti Veyron EB 16.4 is the fastest production car in the world. It features an 8.0 litre W16 engine. It has sixteen cylinders in two banks of eight cylinders, or something like two narrow angle V8 engines mated in a W configuration. Each cylinder has four valves for a total of sixty four, but the narrowly spread out eight configuration allows two overhead camshafts to drive two banks of cylinders. So, only four camshafts are needed. The engine is fed by four turbochargers.
The Bugatti Veyron is strapped with a dual clutch Direct-Shift Gearbox that is computer controlled and automatic with seven gear ratios and a shift time of less than 150 milliseconds. The Veyron can be driven in either semi-automatic or fully automatic mode. The car also has a permanent four-wheel-drive feature. It uses special Michelin PAX run flat tyres, designed specifically for the Veyron to accommodate its top speed. The tyres can only be removed from the rims in France. Kerb weight of the car is 2,034.8 kilograms. The final production Veyron engine produces 987 bhp and generates 1,250 Nm of torque.
On the whole, buying a Bugatti Veyron is a very luxurious and unimaginably expensive affair. M F Husain had bought the car for his son. He got it personalized too. The headrests on the seats of the car carry Maqbool Fida Hussain's initials, MFH. Till date 220 Veyrons have been built and delivered. Ralph Lauren, Simon Cowell, Tom Cruise, Tom Brady, Scott Storch and Tim Cahill all own a Bugatti Veyron.
Coming back to the Bentley that M F Husain just bought, the managers at the showroom were awe-struck. They rushed out of their cabins to see who was buying the car. Even the rich sheikhs of Arabia pay for such cars only in installments. How did this man manage the task? The artist is wealthy. He also owns forty horses. A single painting of India’s highest paid artist brings him a couple of million dollars. If this man can’t afford the car this way, who can?
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