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Remember when the Bugatti company announced that it no longer chasing records? Well, that turned out to be a lie. The era of the W-16 is coming to an end, but not before the last hurray for the 8.0-liter turbocharged four-cylinder monster.
Installed in the customer's Mistral, this remarkable engine helped the roofless Chiron become the fastest open-top production car in history. This is reported by Motor1.
Bugatti also negotiated the top speed of the Mistral. The luxury hypercar was initially claimed to reach 420 kilometers per hour, which is already higher than the 409 kilometers per hour achieved by the Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport Vitesse in 2013. As it turns out, Chiron's swan song is 34 kilometers per hour faster than originally thought. On the test track in Papenburg in Germany he developed 454 kilometers per hour. That's about 35 kilometers per hour slower than the Chiron coupe it's based on.
Driving the record-breaking Mistral was none other than Bugatti test driver Andy Wallace. The Le Mans winner also drove the Chiron Super Sport 300+, which set the top speed record for closed cars in 2019 at 490.4 kilometers per hour. A total of 99 Mistrals were produced, and this record-breaking car is one of a kind. Its vibrant jet orange accents echo both of the record-breaking Veyron cars – the 16.4 Super Sport and the aforementioned Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport Vitesse. The Chiron also had a black and orange theme. By the way, the owner of Mistral also owns three other record-breaking cars.
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Mistral dethroned Hennessey's Venom GT Spyder, which in 2016 developed 427.4 kilometers per hour. Bugatti organized a successful race on November 9 in the presence of the proud owner of the car, as well as Mate Rimac, CEO of Bugatti Rimac. It will be recalled that he owns 37% of Rimac Group shares, followed by Porsche with 24%, Hyundai with 12% and other investors with 27%. Rimac Group owns 55% of Bugatti Rimac, the other 45% belongs to Porsche. “Bugatti presented the fastest convertible in the world: how fast it accelerates” />
It is interesting that such a structure of shareholders has a lot to do with Bugatti's decision to hold a speed test in Papenburg, and not in Era-Lessien. According to Top Gear, Bugatti simply did not have access to this facility, as it belongs to the Volkswagen Group. It's the same place where the Veyron and Chiron made history.
Hennessy claims the Venom F5 Roadster can hit 300 miles per hour, but we'll believe it when we see it. The Koenigsegg Jesko Absolut has yet to reach top speed either, so for now the Mistral is the undisputed king of open-top speed.