Back in 2019 after absolutely destroying the production car top speed world record with the Chiron Super Sport, the first car to hit the 300-mph mark, then-president of the brand Stephan Winkelmann ...
Bugatti has restored the Veyron 16.4 Super Sport prototype that set the production-car land speed world record in 2010, ...
Two years later, Bugatti set a new record by blasting through Ehra-Lessien at 253.81 mph. An additional 200 horsepower sent the Veyron Super Sport all the way to an average of 267.856 mph in 2010, but ...
In case you haven’t heard, Bugatti recently broke the 300-miles-per-hour barrier with a tweaked Chiron, hitting precisely 304.773 mph at Germany’s Ehra-Lessien test track. Bugatti then promptly ...
Back in 2010, a de-restricted Bugatti Veyron SuperSport raised the production car speed record to 268 miles per hour after a two-way run at parent company VAG’s Ehra-Lessien test track. Ehra-Lessien ...
A 42 year old Brazilian test driver working for Volkswagen died on the premises of the company's Ehra-Lessien testing site, flensburg-online.de reported. Another test driver, a 27 year-old German test ...
From the August 2012 issue of Car and Driver. For automakers set on the glory that comes from breaking records, going fast has become a very serious business. Speed-obsessed manufacturers get bragging ...
Soon after co-pilot Pierre-Henri Raphanel waved his hand signaling me to level off, no more speed, we were comfortably cruising between 210 and 212 miles per hour. It was a cold, bright afternoon and, ...
Bugatti made history last month with a record high-speed run on Volkswagen's secluded Ehra-Lessien test track in Germany, achieving a top speed of 304.773 mph on the track's 5.4-mile straight with ...
The Bugatti Veyron SuperSport has set a new production car land speed record, hitting 267mph at VW's Ehra-Lessien proving ground. 267mph. Well, 267.91mph to be precise, or 431.072km/h, thrashing the ...