The banked corner before the main straightaway at Papenburg allowed Wallace to enter the 2.5-mile straight at roughly 300 kph (186 mph). With his foot hard down on the accelerator, the Mistral’s ...

Bugatti set another top speed record for open-top cars despite withdrawing from the hunt in 2019. The Bugatti W16 Mistral reached 453.91 km/h (282 mph) with Andy Wallace behind the wheel.

While in 2016 it looked like Hennessey’s Venom GT Spyder had snatched the record away from the Bugatti (with a top speed of 265.6 mph), that speed was only achieved in a single direction ...

Andy Wallace has just set a new world speed record for a roofless car: 453.91kph (282.04mph). Polite applause ripples from ...

Swedish carmaker Koenigsegg has smashed the production car speed record with its Agera RS hypercar, stealing the title from the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport. During a test run in Nevada, the ...

This is a nice win for Bugatti on top of the news last week that the Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse also set a record for the fastest open-top production car with a speed of 254.04 mph. That record ...

The Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport Vitesse has set the world speed record for open-top production sports cars at the Volkswagen Group's proving grounds in Ehra-Lessien where TÜV, the renowned ...

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The Bugatti Mistral recently set a world record, reaching an eye-watering 282 mph top speed with the roof off. This is an incredible achievement for many reasons, as the open top adds a considerable ...