Land speed records are hardly a new phenomenon; the first such mark of 39.34 miles per hour was set by Frenchman Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat in an electric Jeantaud Duc carriage way back in 1898. That ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The supercar was driven by Andy Wallace, a race car driver with a history of setting speed records. Wallace previously set a ...

Bugatti has announced a new speed record, this time set by the W16 Mistral. The Chiron-based roadster reached a top speed of 453.91 km/h (282 mph), becoming the fastest open-top car in the world. Andy ...

Bugatti took a step back from top speed records in 2019 when it cracked the 300-mph barrier. Then CEO Stephan Winkelmann said that the goal was to hit 300 mph with the Chiron, but immediately after, ...

The unusual Bugatti W16 engine is a marvelous combination of compact size and prodigious power output. The largest, most complex version of the Volkswagen Group's W8/W12/W16 engine family, the W16 was ...

When Bugatti pulled back the curtain on the Mistral in the summer of 2022, it made clear the car was going to be important. Not only would the first Chiron-era roadster be the final model to feature ...

“An incredible speed. It’s inconceivable that a car would be capable of this,” stated test driver Andy Wallace after piloting a Bugatti hypercar to a speed of 304.773 mph at Germany’s Ehra-Lessien ...

The Bugatti Chiron Super Sport is one of the most remarkable performance cars ever designed and is the only production car to top the fabled 300 mph (483 km/h) mark. It also has a seven-figure price ...