Worlds fastest - Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport @ 431km/h
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Worlds fastest - Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport @ 431km/h
JEZ SPINK
July 6, 2010 - 10:13AM
The Age
Bugatti has set a new land speed record for production cars with an even faster version of its $3.5 million Veyron supercar.
The French marque's Veyron 16.4 Super Sport clocked an average top speed of 431km/h at parent company Volkswagen's Ehra-Lessien proving ground in Germany to book a page in the Guinness Book of Records.
Representatives from the famous tome of feats were on site to verify Bugatti's record-breaking run, which surpasses the original Veyron's 408.3km/h run and reclaims a title it lost to the Shelby Ultimate Aero (412.3km/h) in 2007.
The Super Sport features the same quad-turbocharged 8.0-litre 16-cylinder as the standard Veyron but gains larger turbos and intercoolers to boost power and torque outputs to 882kW and 1500Nm respectively.
Engineers have revised the suspension - including firmer springs, uprated dampers and larger anti-roll bars - to improve both high-speed stability and cornering grip.
Bugatti has also improved aerodynamics and reduced the all-wheel-drive Veyron's weight by using a lighter fibre construction for the carbon-fibre body.
Production of the Veyron 16.4 Super Sport beings later this year, with numbers expected to be limited to just 30.
The first five Super Sports will be called the World Record Edition and feature the same two-tone colour scheme - orange and exposed black carbon-fibre - as the record-breaking Bugatti.
Bugatti has sold nearly 300 Veyrons since the supercar launched in 2005, 35 of which are the Gran Sport open-roof version.
The Super Sport is expected to be the last version of the Veyron 16.4.
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Wow ... viola! and there we have another 200hp sir, oh and that will be another 2Million $ please.
You can pick up base version Veyrons here for 600k£, tuners must be drooling to copy this versions components.
Would be awesome having a ride in one though.
431km/h thats 133 yds per second.... ferk
You can pick up base version Veyrons here for 600k£, tuners must be drooling to copy this versions components.
Would be awesome having a ride in one though.
431km/h thats 133 yds per second.... ferk
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I remember them saying that if you floor the regular Bugatti Veyron, you would run out of fuel in 15 minutes and tires would go in 12 minutes.... I wonder how fast the gas tank would run out in this Super Sport version
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I don't remember the exact figures but that is indeed very close to being correct.
The factory can monitor every car remotely at any time to see things like tire pressure.
The tires need replacing every 2500 miles and the wheels themselves every 5000 miles.
You need two keys to achieve max speed as well.....
There are quite a few neat facts about this vehicle.
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Speaking of which,
I forgot I found these earlier -
High res pics and some more info
http://www.6speedonline.com/forums/f...67-81-mph.html
I forgot I found these earlier -
High res pics and some more info
http://www.6speedonline.com/forums/f...67-81-mph.html
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