It fired a final shot across the bow towards the Hennessey Venom GT Spyder with a ... The claimed top speed figure is 277 mph, but who's to say Bugatti won't push it even higher?

In July 2010, a Bugatti Veyron Super Sport (propelled by a 1,200 horsepower quad-turbo 16-cylinder engine) attained a speed of 267.8 mph- 2.1 mph faster than the Venom GT. However, the top speed ...

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 ... own Venom GT to run.

Even though Bugatti said it was done chasing records for the time being, that apparently wasn't the case with the Mistral. The epic Bugatti Mistral just set a new top-speed world record for an ...