200 mph aint enough for ya? Try.....

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253 mph in a 1,000 hp Bugatti EB 16/4 Veyron worth.....a cool $1 million!

The editor of Car and Driver magazine sure got brass balls enough to take the car for a spin at VW's test track in Germany. He got the car up to 253 mph before the computer cut off all the fun on him.

http://www.caranddriver.com/article.asp?section_id=19&article_id=10108&page_number=1

I barely touched the car's top-speed governor that was set at 253 mph (407.5 kilometers per hour) on that first lap, but on the second I held the car there for at least three of the back straight's five miles. The combination of driveline noise, tire noise, and hurricane-force winds rushing over the car must have been deafening, but I don't remember it, as I concentrated on keeping the gently meandering car within the center of the track's three lanes.

The Top Ten fastest factory-built cars ever with the Bugatti as top dog:

10 Fastest Production Cars Ever

Model Year Vehicle Top Speed Source
(mph)
2005 Bugatti Veyron 16.4 253 Car and Driver
2005 Koenigsegg CCR 241 241 independent observer
1998 McLaren F1 240 240 independent observer
2003 Saleen S7 223 223 at 6500-rpm redline
2004 Ferrari Enzo 220 220 Auto Motor und Sport
1993 Jaguar XJ220 212 212 independent observer
1992 Bugatti EB110 GT 212 212 Autocar
2002 Pagani Zonda S 208 Sport Auto
2004 Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren 207 Auto Motor und Sport
2004 Porsche Carrera GT 207 207 Auto Motor und Sport
and take a gander at the guy and the car that broke both the McLaren and Koenigsegg CC8's top-speed record for factory-made cars...


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chicken shit

wow... in a car!
oh boy!
i try to hit 180 every day on rt 50.
i have hit 245 at booneville on a supercharged nitro injected cbr xx1100...on took a shot at the top speed record for a 2 streamlined harley but failed.. i only hit 312.23...a good 10 mph slower :tears:

but good for the guy in a car :laugh2:


for all the money someone will spend on that peice of crap...and never take it to the top speed,or drive it like a race car.. the can buy a 1978 ferrari gtb...yes the one on magnam pi, and hook up an electro magnectic super charger with some nitro and get a driveable and reliable car. that boogi will need tune ups once a month from not being driven like a race car....just like most ferraris and hi end super cars.

so.. if i ever get a car it will be a gtb.. i wish for a 63 gto.. i just have 7 million bucks.
 
yeah I read about that in the magazine few weeks ago at my work, that car insaneously fast! 1,000 hp strapped to your seat, geez!
 
waste of money

all that money spent just meet the o to 60 and 0 to 100 mph of a 1986 honda vfr 700. what a joke . you buy any used sport bike and throw a supercharger on it a meet that car for top speed and blow it away everywhere else.....and still spend under $7000 bucks :mrgreen:
 
Yeah sequoias, agreed insane fast! Lucky for Csere (the guy driving the car) that he didn't wreck it! I can't imagine him having to fork over the $1 million to VW if he happened to send the poor Bugatti to the junkyard!

Pischetsrieder, the president of VW (the owners of Bugatti AND Lamborghini) once wrecked a McLaren F1 at 240 mph on the autobahn when he was the head of BMW 10 or so years ago. Lucky for him he walked away from the wrecked McLaren 'cause the car was strongly built like a race car.
 
sablescort said:
Yeah sequoias, agreed insane fast! Lucky for Csere (the guy driving the car) that he didn't wreck it! I can't imagine him having to fork over the $1 million to VW if he happened to send the poor Bugatti to the junkyard!

Pischetsrieder, the president of VW (the owners of Bugatti AND Lamborghini) once wrecked a McLaren F1 at 240 mph on the autobahn when he was the head of BMW 10 or so years ago. Lucky for him he walked away from the wrecked McLaren 'cause the car was strongly built like a race car.

Hell yeah! He's really lucky he didn't even crash that $1 million dollar car, I didn't know about the guy crashed the McLaren F1 and walked away from it...240 mph is still insane!

I ain't going that fast on a motorcycle, hell no! Good luck losing a limb from a terrible wreck with a motorcycle. A motorcycle is really dangerous at insaneously high speeds!
 
quad-turbocharged? Shit.
7-speed manual!?!?
253 mph = 3 mpg Good luck for gas.
 
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