Tag: landspeed record

“It is absolutely clackers!”

Post author By Liam
Post date 25 October, 2010
2 Comments on “It is absolutely clackers!”

Well, with 1200 horsepower, 1500 Newton metres of torque and costing around Â£2,000,000 what else would you expect him to say?

Him is Steve Sutcliffe from Autocar and the car is the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport. Yep, that’s the one that set a new landspeed record back in June. The magic number then was 431km/h and that stands as the fastest speed set by a production vehicle.

In case you haven’t already done the sums, the Aussie dollar conversion is around $3.2 million.

Check out Sutcliffe’s review after the break. Lucky sod!

Tags 431km/h, autocar, Bugatti, landspeed record, Review, Veyron, Veyron Super Sport

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Veyron Super Sport sets new Top Gear track record

Post author By Liam
Post date 28 July, 2010
2 Comments on Veyron Super Sport sets new Top Gear track record

The 1200bhp Bugatti Veyron Super Sport recently set a new world record for the fastest production car ever made. The average top speed recorded during the record run was an astounding 431km/h. But what is it like around the Top Gear track? Watch the clip from episode 15×05 below and see just how the Super Sport claimed another prized record; it now sits atop the Top Gear Power Lap board.

James May also returned to the driver’s seat of the Veyron to experience the “Bloody Nora” speeds all for himself.

Tags 15x05, 431km/h, Bugatti, James May, landspeed record, Power lap, Stig, Top Gear, Veyron, Veyron Super Sport

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Bugatti Veyron Super Sport sets new landspeed record

Post author By Liam
Post date 6 July, 2010
13 Comments on Bugatti Veyron Super Sport sets new landspeed record

On 26 June 2010 this lairy orange and black Bugatti Veyron Super Sport, with 1200hp (882kW) if you don’t mind, set a new landspeed record for production vehicles. The bar has now been set at 431km/h. Astonishing!

Following normal protocols for such records the top speed is calculated as an average of two runs in opposite directions set within a one hour time limit. In its first pass the Super Sport logged a top speed of 427.933km/h. The second was recorded at 434.211km/h.

“We took it that we would reach an average value of 425 km/h,” explains Bugatti’s chief engineer Dr Wolfgang Schreiber, “but the conditions today were perfect and allowed even more.”

The record was set by Bugatti’s chief test driver Pierre Henri Raphanel at Volkwagen Group’s Ehra-Lessien proving grounds, near Wolfsburg. The new mark has been verified by the German Technical Inspection Agency (TÃœV) and the Guinness Book of Records.

More after the break.

Tags 431km/h, Bugatti, landspeed record, Veyron, Veyron Super Sport