The Bugatti Veyron at top speed March 29th, 2007
For all you gear heads out there.
Pictures from: http://www.bugatti-cars.de/bugatti/index.html
Bugatti Veyron test ... 407 km/h...!!!... 257 miles per hour.
I wonder what Mark Tapscott thinks?
I looked up the car at Answers.com:
The Bugatti Veyron 16.4 is currently the fastest, most powerful, and most expensive street-legal production car in the world, with a proven top speed of over 400 km/h (407.5 km/h or 253.2 mph).[1] It reached full production in September 2005. The car is built by Volkswagen AG subsidiary Bugatti Automobiles SAS in its Molsheim (
Lots more information click here: Bugatti Veyron
Top speed was initially promised to be 252 mph (406 km/h), but test versions were unstable at that speed, forcing a redesign of the aerodynamics. In May 2005, a prototype Veyron tested at a Volkswagen track near Wolfsburg, Germany, and recorded an electronically limited top speed of 400 km/h (249 mph). In October, 2005, Car and Driver magazine's editor Csaba Csere test drove the final production version of the Veyron for the November 2005 issue. This test, at Volkswagen's Ehra-Lessien test track, reached a top speed of 253.2 mph (407.5 km/h). The top speed was verified once again by James May on Top Gear, again at Volkswagen's private test track. During the test he said "At this speed the tires will last for 15 minutes, but that's not a problem as the fuel only lasts for 12". He also gave an indication of the power requirements, at ~150mph the Veyron was using approximately 270BHP, but to get to its rated 253mph top speed required almost the full 1000BHP the engine can produce, due to exponential increases in drag at high speeds.
Now watch the video…
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x157l2_bugatti-veyron-at-top-speed
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