Guinness World Record, Bugatti Veyron 2011 Super Sport

Landspeed worldrecord with Sport Bugatti Veyron 16.4 super
New Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport requires production sports car to a new dimension

Wolfsburg / Molsheim, July 4, 2010 - on a beautiful sunny day at 25 degrees Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport Landspeed achieve a new world record for production cars, the proving grounds of the Volkswagen Group in Ehra-Lessien (near its headquarters in Wolfsburg). In the presence of representatives of the German Technical Inspection Agency (TÜV) and representatives from the Guinness Book of Records Super Sport achieve an average top speed of 431 km / hour.

Saturday, 2 pm - Pierre Pilote Officiel Bugatti that Henri Raphanel put helmet and gloves, pulled the seat belt tight while engineers inspect the car the last time: tire pressure, temperature, all systems have been checked with the full. Then the orange-black Super Sport cars across the barrier of light, from now on time will be taken, within an hour the car had to drive from South to North and then turned in the opposite direction.

No one but the driver is allowed to touch the car during this time. Tensions rose. A few minutes later we could hear voices from the left side of the jumbo jet started coming toward us. First we saw the lights Veyron, then we can recognize the shape of a car, a loud wooosh .... and Raphanel strips on top speed past us. GPS-tachometer stops at 427, 933 km / hour.

Now with the same procedure from the opposite direction. This time the Veyron reaches 434 cars, 211 km / h. As the average top speed of representatives of the "TÜV" and Guinness value 431, 072 km / h (268 mph). It even beat the Bugatti engineering team with a surprise.

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