GREAT and WONDERFULL... stupidity Very intersting you mignt "fly" more than 400 kph on an open road !!! Gather the bank notes !

The most significant developments in a technology tend to occur when that technology is in the twilight of its career. These toys for the boys will soon be gathering dust in museums, monuments to a sector of industry incapable of reading the writing on the wall.
No doubt Jeremy Clarkson will be wetting his knickers at the prospect of driving one. Fortunately he will be one of a very small number of people who will have such an opportunity, though with today's traffic conditions, where they will find room to take "advantage," if it can be described thus, of the car's specification is another matter.

"The previous record had been held by the Koennigsegg CCR which ran 387.87 km/h (241.01 mph) to take the record from the McLaren F1."
"The McLaren F1 had run 391 km/h (243 mph) with a naturally-aspirated car in 1998 and held the record for seven years."
Can someone explain how the Koenigsegn took the record by going slower?
Fact checking world prove the F1 ran 231mph and 240.1mph (rev limited and non rev limited) and the CCR ran a 241

Nice!

Guinness World Record officials recorded (all others records may or may not be true) 1993 - McLaren F1 - 231 mph (372 km/h) 3/31/98 - McLaren F1 - 240.1 mph (386.4 km/h) 2/28/05 - Koenigsegg CCR - 241 mph (388 km/h) 4/19/05 - Bugatti Veyron - 253.81 mph (408.47 km/h) 10/9/07 - SSC Ultimate Aero TT - 256.18 mph (412.28 km/h) 6/26/10 - Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport - 267.857 mph (431.074 km/h)

Fastest PRODUCTION Roadster.
Dr.Bonner Denton ran his front-wheel-drive 1959 Berkeley roadster at 311mph at Bonneville this past season.
There is also an open-top Triumph roadster running over 300mph at Bonneville,as well.
They go well over 250mph everytime they go out.
Those "Bugattis" may never see 200mph.
They are VWs- They are the antithesis of Ettore Bugatti's design philosophies.
He considered himself an artist as well as an engineer and and his art was VERY egalitarian.
He would never have approved of the extravagant wastefulness and complexity of the cars that now bare his name.
Look him and read about him and his work.
He once turned down a King as a customer because he said the man had no table manners.
Current Bugatti is all about the money.
$120,000 transmission? &25,000 for tires every 3,000 miles? $95,000 for rims&tires every 10,000 miles?
More money than brains, for sure.

Hmm Bugatty?
If they were so smart, how come they are not making an inline 2 seater, holds ONE big shopping trolley full of groceries, that gets 300Km to the liter at 100Kmh.....
And weighs under 80Kg.....

Mr Stiffy back with the scooter pushing. Veyrons are not made for fuel efficient trips to the supermarket in pleasant weather. They are made to be status symbols. Like multi-million dollar trophies to excess wealth. "Oh, so you have a Ferrari? One of those cheap toys? My Veyron proves I'm better than you because it is more expensive and goes faster. You can imagine how big a man I must be." That's what a Veyron is and anyone able to afford one has someone else take their scooter down to the supermarket to buy their groceries for them.

@Griffin - The first two vehicles you listed were not PRODUCED at specifications that allow the times and speeds attained at bonneville today.

what purpose does it serve? where the bloody hell can you drive a car at 253 friccking miles an hour? I drove my URQ at 130 on I5 between Seattle and Portland and in hindsight it was a BAD idea, err act, this is useless, much like the technology being pumped into new cars, hey Mr Stiffy, nice to see you here, no we are not dating URQ 196 aka Bill