Back in March, Bugatti unveiled their latest supercar at the annual Geneva Motor Show.

The La Voiture Noire is the most expensive car ever commissioned, and it honours one of the most beautiful cars of all time, the 1938 Bugatti Type 57 Atlantic.

The La Voiture Noire is just one of the jewels in Bugatti’s crown for 2019, and the luxury carmaker is having a very good year.

Over to The Huffington Post for their latest achievement:

A pre-production version of the Bugatti Chiron smashed through the 300-mile-per-hour speed barrier last month, setting a world record.

The car topped out at 304.77mph during the Aug. 2 run at a test track at Ehra-Lessien, Germany.

The Chiron is a street-legal vehicle produced for sale — starting at just under $3 million — but the one that broke the record was heavily modified, according to German broadcaster Deutsche Welle.

That’s 482,8 kilometres an hour, people. You don’t have to know much about cars to know that that is very, very fast.

“An incredible speed,” test driver and Le Mans winner Andy Wallace, who drove the vehicle, said in a news release. “It’s inconceivable that a car would be capable of this.”

When you watch the video of the record-breaking drive below, make sure you don’t blink – you’ll miss it:

Wallace had more to say about his nailbiting experience.

Wallace told Car and Driver of a spot where resurfaced track switches to the old pavement.

“I got to calling this ‘the jump,’” he said. It’s a bump that you’d barely notice in a normal car, but at those speeds it feels huge . . . If you go over that and land and there’s a bit of a sidewind, then you can lose feeling and suddenly lose confidence.”

He added: “Any crash at that sort of speed is likely to hurt.”

Bugatti has said over and over again that they make the fastest cars in the world.

Now they have proof.

[source:huffpost]