Bugatti Hits 248mph, Waits for Validation of Fastest Production Car Claim
If a supercar hits 248.5mph in Germany but the folks at Guiness don’t see it, is it still the fastest production car ever The answer is, sort of. A stock Bugatti Veyron recently hit that top speed during several passes on a Volkswagen test track in Ehra-Lessien — breaking a previous record of 241mph set by a Koenigsegg CCR. The Veyron’s speed was measured by the German Homologation Authority, T
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ddeutschland, though to be named world’s fastest production car, performance must be validated by the Guiness Book of World Records. We’d tend to go ahead and trust a team of German scientists wielding precision chronometric instruments, rather than wait for a beer company to chime in. But we’re silly like that.
The Bugatti Veyron tops 400 Km/h [Classic Driver]
