Bugatti Veyron Top Speed Test - Top Gear - BBC By Top Gear

As I'm sure you know, James May is the slowest man in the entire world. By the time he sets off anywhere. Normally his hair has grown another inch. So plainly, he was the ideal man to try and Max the fastest car in the world lad. The Impaled is back last year the mighty Bugatti Aaron starred in our greatest Top Gear challenge ever when it raised an airplane across the continent. In that film Jeremy talked endlessly about the Barons ferocious power and its incredible top speed, but because he was on public roads, he had to stick to the speed limit, but today we're not going to talk about it.

We're going to do it we're going to take the fastest production car in the world up to its top speed that top speed is 253 miles per hour, much faster than a Formula One car, and when you think that the Aaron has airbags air conditioning a stereo, a boot and all the other stuff f1 cars aren't burdened with you realize what an incredible machine this is. The Aaron is about pushing the outside of the envelope. It's about doing things that people said just were not possible. This car is a sort of Concorde moment. Getting your car to do 155 miles per hour, friendly, isn't really very difficult.

The Aaron needs just a piffling 270 horsepower to reach that speed, but 253. Thank you, but faster you go. The more mother nature tries to hold you back so to do the next hundred miles per hour. The hundred life rather takes you up to two hundred and fifty meet another 730 horsepower. So what you end up with is a sixty-cylinder engine with four turbochargers producing 1,001 horsepower and a lot of truth.

That's why your car has a one radiator and this car has the engineers really were in uncharted territory with this here's an example when they wanted to sort out the high speed aerodynamics. They went to this saga f1 team, but they said: do you mind awfully if we use your wind tunnel, and they said terribly sorry, but we don't go up to those speeds. In fact, cracking 253 miles per hour caused nightmare after nightmare, but Bugatti insist that this 850 thousand pound car can. Does it mind you actually testing? Their bold claim is a bit of a pal lava. This is erred unless I'm Volkswagen's maximum security test track in Germany when it was built during the Cold War.

It was deliberately sited in a no-fly zone near the East German border in order to stop prying eyes from seeing secret prototypes. It has over 60 miles of private track, but the bit we're interested in is the main straight, which is a whopping five and a half miles long, although it is technically a flat and level road. If you stand here, you can't actually see the other end and that's because it's following the curvature of the earth, but even when you've sorted the venue, you can't just jump in the car and gun Germany. There are procedures to go through I, like procedures, you have to insert a special key into a slot by the door and when you do the diffuser flaps close the rear, spoiler retracts and the whole car hunkers down to become as slippery as possible. The telemetry box we're using to record the speed measures in kilometers an hour, so the magic number we're looking for is 407 Dead Island.

Here we go I'm approaching the banking at the top of the circuit. I have to do this at 200 kilometers an hour. That's about 120 around the banking. Look for my acceleration point then give it the beans down the Straits seen see in the car settled fourth gear: 5000 draft various, but wine from 200 to 300 kilometers an hour was over in just nine point four seconds: seventy that's 230 miles per hour. I was now leaving f1 cars behind, which means that I'm pretty confident that's as fast as I'm ever going to go in a car incredible.

That is my eyes. Water. Okay thing is, though, okay, you know when you take a Ferrari or a Lamborghini, or particularly a K?nigsberg to its top speed. No, no! Actually you wouldn't! But anyway, when you do they fizz, and they buzz, and it feels like all the body panels are peeling away because you're right on the edge of what's physically and technically possible, really I didn't get any of that. With this, to be honest, the only thing I got was at the end of the straight had to touch the brake.

So you see the spoiler come up down, you've got a sort of, and that's it yeah just so it's kind of safe and relaxing, even at 250 miles an hour, absolutely yeah. It's its totally undramatic buddies, but I would give you a bit of a warning which is its a bit disorientating doing that sort of speed, because after I come off the banking or slowing down to stop. You know you get a bit impatient. They got I'll just open the door. Fortunately, I looked back at the speed, and I was still doing 70.

Okay, so we've established that this is faster across Europe than your light aircraft. Yep we've established that it really will do 250 miles an hour, but we've never been able to find out how fast it'll go round our track. Now the problem is: is Bugatti a happy for us to have won here, they're happy for you to go and do that, but they won't lend the Sting one. So really! This is an appeal: if you've got a Aaron, and you'd like to lend it to us, we are prepared to pay anything up to 30 pounds. You.

Source : Top Gear