Dubai seems to be the area with the highest density of Bugatti Veyron’s in the world. I just arrived back at my apartment block and saw one performing a three point turn in the car park, an Emirati had come to pick up his girlfriend who lives in the tower.
The car is truly amazing as is the price at $1.6m, that’s around £1m Great British pounds, and for that you get over 1180 horses under the bonnet and a top speed of over 250mph.
Impressive car, impressive money, impressive way to transport a lady on a date. But do you know what the most impressive thing I learnt today after seeing a Bugatti Veyron for the first time?
I called out the security guard and told him about the amazing Bugatti Veyron, how this motor was like Concorde a truly fantastic piece of engineering. But the Bangladeshi guard was unmoved. He showed no emotion at the car unlike me, I probed away and discovered that he has not been paid since the start of this year. This is the guy who works 12 hours per night, every day of the week, guarding the property whilst the tenants enjoy a restful sleep. And for his efforts he’s been denied
his rewards, this is the ugly side of Dubai.
I then understand fully why he was not at all impressed by the Veyron, and realised that you can only enjoy the wealth and materialism in Dubai if you walk around with blinkers on.
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