Presenting the new Bugatti Veyron Super Sports: the World's Fastest Car

by Noah Joseph (RSS feed)
Jul 5th 2010 at 6:01PM

Feast your eyes, ladies and gentlemen, on the new Bugatti Veyron Super Sport. Now we know what you're thinking: Bugatti's rolled out dozens of special editions of its iconic supercar over the past few years. But this is a different kettle of fish altogether.

For the long-anticipated Veyron Super Sports – which follows in the tire tracks of upgraded Super Sports models from the marque's history – Bugatti has tweaked the engine to produce an extra 200 horsepower over the "standard" model's 1000. The resulting 1200-horse output, combined with revised aerodynamics, was enough for Bugatti to claim the land speed record at 267.81 miles per hour, achieved at parent company Volkswagen's proprietary Ehra-Lessian test track in the presence of officials from the Guiness Book of World Records and the German Technical Inspection Agency, making it official.

The Veyron Super Sports will be unveiled officially next month at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, after which full details of customer availability will be announced. For now we know that the first five production models will be painted the same black and neon orange paint scheme as the test vehicle you see here.

Tags: bugatti, bugatti veyron, bugatti veyron 16.4 super sport, bugatti veyron super sport, guiness book of world records, land speed record, record, veyron, veyron super sport

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elijah mumford jr Jul 6th 2010 4:39AM

Why do I HAVE TOO KEEP READING ABOUT SUPER RICH ...GUYS WHO DON"T ..KNOW WHAT TO WITH THEIR..$$$...M-ON-I-E-S..why not spend that wasted $$$money over in the "GHETTO..BUILD SOME RECREATIONAL ..CENTERS AND BASKETBALL..CLINICS..GET THE KIDS OFF T/STREETS(
(O.I.C.) opportunities Industrializations Centers..HELP..T/REV.
LEON SULLIVAN DREAM...live on THANK YOU...

turtle7913 Jul 7th 2010 3:33PM

Why are you reading anything about extremely costly items if you don't think wealthy folks should have these things? Of course most of the people who can afford products such as these automobiles have worked very hard and effectively for their money and feel they are entilted to spend it as they wish. Perhaps, if most adults stopped getting the free handouts, they would be forced to be productive and self supportive themselves.

Kensai Jul 6th 2010 7:17AM

What a fantastic supercar. Bugatti sets again the limit of automotive engineering.

Spectacular Bid Jul 6th 2010 11:18AM

To "elijah mumford jr" why visit a website called Luxist if you don't like to read about often excessively indulgent goods and services? It seems incredibly silly to rail against conspicuous consumption on this website.

mark.burgess Jul 19th 2010 9:21AM

Where did you get your SN ,if you dont mind me askin

mark.burgess Jul 19th 2010 9:32AM

Indeed. Also,who's going to just give away that much $$, for nothing ? Not many people.

reallytorkedoff Jul 6th 2010 6:28PM

Sorry guys, the "World's Fastest Car" is the ThrustSSC at an OFFICIAL speed of 763 mph (1228 kph).

Perhaps you need to add some qualifiers like "road-legal" or "production" provided this car is both road-legal and actually makes it to production.

I admit this car will look GREAT on YouTube when some guy gets distracted and drives it into a lake.

Let us not forget that the previous champ for wheel-driven road-legal cars, the SSC Ultimate Aero set its speed record on an actual road, not a test track.

Of course, if you just want to say "wheel-driven", funny cars can blow the doors off these things in only a quarter-mile (

Srmhomer Jul 7th 2010 8:25AM

The SSC Ultimate Aero is a shoddily made piece of crap. Just saying.

reallytorkedoff Jul 7th 2010 3:08PM

I've never driven one. Maybe you're right.

mark.burgess Jul 19th 2010 9:29AM

Check this one. Quarter mile in 6.7 seconds. Sweet
http://www.gmotors.ie/blog/dagger-gt-new-american-supercar-with-2000-hp/

reallytorkedoff Jul 19th 2010 10:49PM

Nice try, but until they actually build and race the car for time, it's just another pretty picture and the internet is full of those.

John F.C. Taylor Jul 7th 2010 7:49AM

Orange and black? Was this vehicle conceived on Halloween?

Capwhan Jul 7th 2010 10:17AM

Not conceived but born on Halloween.

wow642 Jul 29th 2010 7:54AM

Lets see if ThrustSSC could do it with piston engine, its a jet

reallytorkedoff Jul 7th 2010 3:14PM

That's where the qualifiers come in.

Funny cars (with piston engines) regularly exceed 300 mph, but they're neither production or road-legal.

BudMax77 Jul 7th 2010 8:01PM

It's cool, but for the price, I'll take a yaht anytime.

ttrexxx Jul 7th 2010 9:04AM

new player for a batman movie or a new transformer bot or paint it like a cop car and freak out the noz boys,,lol

gaddy Jul 7th 2010 10:40AM

Fast but ugly.

lpbpierre Jul 8th 2010 12:09PM

Hey, it may be ugly to some but for entertainment sake it's badd azz. As far as what the rich should be spending
$s on thats their business. Hell I have a few auto toys but don"t dare drive them now while jobs and money is scarce. gotta keep the lights on. Hey who is hiring in the St. Louis area? I need a job payin about $15hr. thanks

reallytorkedoff Jul 11th 2010 2:37PM

The website is http://www.thrustssc.com/ and the builders are apparently working on something even faster.

It IS a car, and it has jet engines, but it doesn't fly. I doubt it's easy to park.

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