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The Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport World Record Edition – formerly the fastest road legal production car attaining a top speed of 431 km/h (268 mph) Rear 3/4 view The Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport is a faster, more powerful version of the Bugatti Veyron 16.4.
Examples of the difficulties faced were highlighted in a two-week long dispute regarding Bugatti's record set in 2010, and Hennessey's 2013 claim that their own top speed run – slower than Bugatti's, lacking the required two-way average, and lacking the minimum 25 car production run – was the real record, due to an issue regarding ...
On April 29, 2005, the Veyron 16.4 reached a top speed of 253.81 mph—but the French marque had more in store. 15 Years Ago, Bugatti Set the Speed Record. How Hitting 253 MPH Changed the Marque ...
At the Paris, Geneva, and Detroit auto shows, Bugatti presented the EB 16/4 Veyron concept car, an all-wheel-drive 16-cylinder car with an engine output of 1,001 PS (736 kW; 987 hp). The EB 16/4 Veyron has an 8.0-liter engine with four turbochargers. It reached a top speed of 407 km/h (253 mph).
Notably, the top speeds of the Veyron and the McLaren F1 were recorded along this straight. In Episode 2 of Season 9, aired on 4 February 2007 on BBC Two's Top Gear, presenter James May reached 407.5 km/h (253.2 mph) in a Bugatti Veyron thus breaking the world land speed record for a road legal vehicle. [2]
Bugatti Veyron: 2005 736 kW (987 hp; 1,001 PS) Internal combustion: Fastest road car in 2005 Ferrari SF90 Stradale: 2020 735 kW (986 hp; 1,000 PS) Plug-in hybrid: Up to 2000 units per year planned. [42] [43] Denza Z9/Z9 GT BEV 2024 710 kW (952 hp; 965 PS) Electric: LaFerrari: 2013 708 kW (949 hp; 963 PS) Hybrid electric: 710+ units produced. [44]
Three decades later, as CEO of Volkswagen Group, Piëch championed the development of the extraordinarily ambitious Bugatti Veyron, featuring a turbocharged W16-cylinder engine with 1,001 horsepower (746 kW) and a top speed of 407 km/h (253 mph). Although some of these specifications do not exceed those of the Porsche 917/30, they are still ...
This speed record has since been beaten by the Bugatti Veyron at Volkswagen Group's private Ehra-Lessien straight line test track in Germany, and hence the CCR only holds the speed record for the Nardò Ring. In the process of fighting a turn as needed when going faster than the neutral speed quite a bit of potential top speed is lost and hence ...