The Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport Vitesse has just set a world speed record for open top production car at the Volkswagen testing grounds in Ehra-Lessein. Hopefully, this will put to rest some of the controversy started by Hennessey when they asserted that the Hennessey Venom GT was the fastest production car in the world by pointing out the Bugatti did not have a speed limiter. This technicality in turn caused Guinness to strip Bugatti of the title of world’s fastest production car which they had held since 2010.
As the Bugatti site states:
It is now official: the world’s fastest roadster is a Bugatti. Following the spectacular record-breaking drive of the Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport in 2010, during which the coupé achieved a top speed of 431.072 km/h, witnessed and officially confirmed by the renowned independent German organisation for Technical Inspection and Certification TÜV, an impressive speed that remains unparalleled to this day, Bugatti has added yet another milestone. The open top version of the 1,200 PS sports car, the Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport Vitesse, now also officially holds the world record. In the presence of TÜV, the open-top super car reached a maximum speed of 408.84 km/h (254.04 mph) at the Volkswagen Group’s proving grounds in Ehra-Lessien, making it the fastest open-top production sports car in the world
It looks like the gauntlet has been thrown down, so for us sports cars enthusiasts, it looks like 2013 will be a great year !
Check out this great video on the Bugatti from the Wall Street Journal here :
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