New land speed record broken by Bugatti
Posted by creative | Posted in Supercar News | Posted on 05-07-2010-05-2008
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Bugatti has put an end to the brief, corrupt reign of Shelby SuperCars’ Aero SSC TT as the fastest production car in the world.
On June 26, Bugatti test driver Pierre Henri Raphanel drove an orange-and-black Veyron 16.4 Super Sport to an average top speed of 268 mph (431 kph) at VW Group’s test facility at Ehra-Leissien. Representatives of Guinness World Records and the German Technical Inspection Agency – the keeper of such things in Deutschland – were on hand to verify the result.
Picture courtesy of The Wall Street Journal