Bugatti made headlines in 2019 when a specially modified Chiron Super Sport 300+ became the first hypercar to break the 300-mph barrier, achieving 304.7 mph (490.5 km/h) during a record-setting run at ...
Land speed records are hardly a new phenomenon; the first such mark of 39.34 miles per hour was set by Frenchman Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat in an electric Jeantaud Duc carriage way back in 1898. That ...
Bugatti took a step back from top speed records in 2019 when it cracked the 300-mph barrier. Then CEO Stephan Winkelmann said that the goal was to hit 300 mph with the Chiron, but immediately after, ...
“An incredible speed. It’s inconceivable that a car would be capable of this,” stated test driver Andy Wallace after piloting a Bugatti hypercar to a speed of 304.773 mph at Germany’s Ehra-Lessien ...