Top Gear - Bugatti Veyron

Top Gear presenter James May pushes the world's fastest production car to it's limit. With a top Speed of 407 km/h (253 mph) it is much faster than a Formula 1 car. The 1001 horsepower engine needs 10 (!) radiators to cool. The Bugatti Veyron costs 840,000 GBP = $1,600,000 US!

The Bugatti Veyron 16.4 is currently the fastest, most powerful, and most expensive street-legal full production car in the world, with a proven top speed of over 400 km/h (407.5 km/h or 253.2 mph), though several faster or more expensive vehicles have been produced on a limited basis. It reached full production in September 2005. The car is built by Volkswagen AG subsidiary Bugatti Automobiles SAS in its Molsheim (Alsace, France) factory and is sold under the legendary Italian/French Bugatti marque. It is named after French racing driver Pierre Veyron, who won the 24 hours of Le Mans in 1939 while racing for the original Bugatti firm. It is also the world's second, modern, supercar with 16 cylinders, after the Cizeta Moroder V16T.

Bugatti Veyron - Fastest Car By Top Gear

Bugatti Veyron

Bugatti Veyron doing 407Kmph - Look at it go...
James May doing 407 Kmph (approx 253mph) in a Bugatti Veyron at VW's test track in Germany. @400kmph: the tires will only last for about 15 minutes, but that's ok because the fuel will run out in 12 minutes