World Fastest Car
Bugatti Veyron Super Sport 267.8mph/430.9kph(certified)
The Veyron Super Sport broke the record for the world’s fastest production car on July 4 2010 on Volkswagen’s high-speed Ehra-Lessien test track in Germany, with the time verified by officials from Guinness World Records. It averaged the speed during laps in both directions of the oval track, as required by the rule book. The car sold to customers is electrically limited to 258mph/415kph to stop the tyres exploding — which has led to Bugatti’s official title being disputed in the past. In April 2013, its Guinness Record status was taken away because Guinness decided that the speed limiter meant it had been ‘modified’, which is not allowed under their definition of a ‘production car’. The Ultimate Aero TT (at the time the world’s second fastest car) at that point claimed the record. But just days later Guinness did a bizarre U-turn and decided limiting the top speed was not an actual modification as it “does not alter the fundamental design of the car or its engine”. Some may beg to differ with this, and we can see why. But anyway, the Super Sport’s official Guinness title of fastest car in the world holds today. It does 0-60 in 2.4 seconds, has an 8.0 liter W16 engine producing 1,200bhp and costs an astonishing $2,400,000.
You can see James May from British television show Top Gear reaching 259.4mph/417.6kph in the Super Sport and a test driver doing 267mph/431kph here
