On a beautiful sunny day at 25 degrees the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport has achieved a new world record for production cars Landspeed, based on test Volkswagen Group in Ehra-less (near its headquarters in Wolfsburg). In the presence of the German Technical Inspection Agency (TÜV) and a representative of Guinness Book of Records the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport has achieved an average top speed of 431 km / h.
Saturday, 14:00 - Pierre Henry Pilot Bugatti Officiel Raphanel puts his helmet and gloves, remove the belt line, while the engineers to review the event one last time: tire pressure, temperature, all systems go. Then the orange black Bugatti Veyron Super Sport crosses the light barrier, the time from now will be taken within an hour the car has to drive from south to north and then in the opposite direction. Anyone but the driver is allowed to touch the car during this time. Tension rises. In just minutes you can hear the sound from the left side of a jumbo jet approaching departure towards us. First we see the headlights of the Veyron, then we can recognize the shape of the car, a strong wooosh .... Raphanel and scripts for maximum speed before us. GPS tachometer stops at 427, 933 km / h. Now the same procedure from the opposite direction. This time the car reaches 434,211 km / h. Since the average velocity of the representatives of "TUV" Guinness and generate a value of 431.072 kmh (268 mph). That even the touch of Bugatti's engineering team by surprise.
Bugatti Veyron Super Sport (2011).
Saturday, 14:00 - Pierre Henry Pilot Bugatti Officiel Raphanel puts his helmet and gloves, remove the belt line, while the engineers to review the event one last time: tire pressure, temperature, all systems go. Then the orange black Bugatti Veyron Super Sport crosses the light barrier, the time from now will be taken within an hour the car has to drive from south to north and then in the opposite direction. Anyone but the driver is allowed to touch the car during this time. Tension rises. In just minutes you can hear the sound from the left side of a jumbo jet approaching departure towards us. First we see the headlights of the Veyron, then we can recognize the shape of the car, a strong wooosh .... Raphanel and scripts for maximum speed before us. GPS tachometer stops at 427, 933 km / h. Now the same procedure from the opposite direction. This time the car reaches 434,211 km / h. Since the average velocity of the representatives of "TUV" Guinness and generate a value of 431.072 kmh (268 mph). That even the touch of Bugatti's engineering team by surprise.
Bugatti Veyron Super Sport (2011).