James May does 259.11 MPH in the Bugatti Veyron SS.

Captain Slow, as his colleagues like to call him, has managed to take the Veyron SuperSport to 259 MPH crushing his previous top speed of 253 MPH that he set in the standard Bugatti.

The Bugatti Supersport however, reached a top speed of 267.81 MPH at the hands of a professional test driver making this the fastest the Bugatti has ever gone.

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Bugatti Galibier 16C

Bugatti Galibier 16C press release: As the climax of its centenary celebration ceremonies, Bugatti Automobiles S.A.S. presented customers and opinion-makers with the Bugatti 16 C Galibier concept, intended to be the most exclusive, elegant, and powerful four door automobile in the world last weekend in Molsheim. At the historic site where Ettore Bugatti once laid the cornerstone of his company, Bugatti’s current president, Dr. Ing. Franz-Josef Paefgen emphasised that the Galibier is one of several concept studies with which the company is considering for the future of the Bugatti marque.

Art – Forme – Technique: those are the brand values to which Ettore Bugatti and his son Jean oriented themselves in order to develop even more powerful engines and even more noble body designs for each new model, which were without equal in quality, handling, speed and elegance. In the process, they experimented again and again without compromise with new materials; thus was Bugatti one of the first manufacturers to use aluminium parts for bodies, engine blocks and wheels.

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