Meet the fastest open-top car in the world – the Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse. Sure, it may be a familiar shape, but it’s a good shape that was specifically engineered to make it go fast – really fast. In the beginning of April, Chinese racing driver Anthony Liu clocked 408.84 km/h or 255.53 mph at the wheel of the black and orange open-hypercar of sorts, with its top down, of course.
Now, Bugatti has released a short promo shot on the day the record was set. The location chosen was Volkswagen’s Ehra-Lessien high-speed test track facility, which basically means the Bugatti was going around a big corner at over 400 km/h. However, as we’ve come to understand, the big Veyron is a supremely stable machine, which was engineered from the get-go with crazy speeds in mind.
They just up the power a bit whenever some small company tries to challenge their supremacy – Grand Sport Vitesse has around 200 more horsepower than the first Veyron 16.4 launched in 2005, which was famous for having 1,001 PS – the figure is usually not translated into actual brake-horsepower, because it would equate to a meaningless 987 of them.
If an updated car from more than seven years ago can still cut it today, imagine what they could come up with when an all-new Veyron makes its appearance…
By Andrei Nedelea
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