Bugatti has broken the 300mph barrier

I'm not sure what record they have here. There have already been multiple road-legal 300 mph cars as well as a stock road-legal 300 mph car for sale (Koenigsegg Jesko).

The article says that this is the first from a series manufacturer. Why does Koenigsegg not count, or was this the first?

Re: Bugatti has broken the 300mph barrier

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Post by tus88 » Mon, Sep 02, 2019, 8:17 AM UTC

vinay427 wrote: post #4

I'm not sure what record they have here. There have already been multiple road-legal 300 mph cars as well as a stock road-legal 300 mph car for sale (Koenigsegg Jesko). The article says that this is the first from a series manufacturer. Why does Koenigsegg not count, or was this the first?

> Andy and the prototype Chiron supersede previous really, really fast runs from SSC (256.18mph two-way average, 2007), Hennessey (270.49mph two-way average, 2013) and Koenigsegg (284.55 vmax, 277.87 two-way average, 2017)

Re: Bugatti has broken the 300mph barrier

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Post by trymas » Mon, Sep 02, 2019, 8:18 AM UTC

In the video the car accelerates from 300 to 400 kmh in around 10 seconds. It says "raw footage" at the bottom.

Remarkably quick.

Re: Bugatti has broken the 300mph barrier

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Post by rgallagher27 » Mon, Sep 02, 2019, 8:18 AM UTC

vinay427 wrote: post #4

I'm not sure what record they have here. There have already been multiple road-legal 300 mph cars as well as a stock road-legal 300 mph car for sale (Koenigsegg Jesko). The article says that this is the first from a series manufacturer. Why does Koenigsegg not count, or was this the first?

Those are theoretical limits from simulations. This is the first to actually record a real 300mph run

Re: Bugatti has broken the 300mph barrier

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Post by kijin » Mon, Sep 02, 2019, 8:20 AM UTC

steve_taylor wrote: post #3

jdnenej wrote: post #2

That's 482km/h for those using modern units.

It’s 490.48 km/h (304.77 mph).

Why is the "300mph barrier" even a thing when we're talking about a French-turned-Italian-turned-German automaker doing test runs in Germany? They only barrier they need to care about is the metric one at 500km/h.

Re: Bugatti has broken the 300mph barrier

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Post by CaptainDecisive » Mon, Sep 02, 2019, 8:21 AM UTC

steve_taylor wrote: post #3

jdnenej wrote: post #2

That's 482km/h for those using modern units.

It’s 490.48 km/h (304.77 mph).

So really we should be asking when a car is going to break the mythical 500 km/h barrier and not some also-ran number ;-)

Although apparently that barrier was broken in 1937 by Thunderbolt, so I'm not sure what record we're actually talking about here.

Re: Bugatti has broken the 300mph barrier

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Post by dang » Mon, Sep 02, 2019, 8:21 AM UTC

jdnenej wrote: post #2

That's 482km/h for those using modern units.

Information is fine but please keep the flamebait away.