- Bugatti Mistral claims land velocity report for a manufacturing open-top automobile
- Document automobile is a one-off instance costing $14.7 million
- Mistral manufacturing capped at 99 items
Bugatti’s Mistral roadster has been taken to a high velocity of 282 mph, and within the course of has claimed the world land velocity report for a manufacturing open-top automobile.
The run occurred on Nov. 9 on the ATP Automotive Testing Papenburg web site in Germany, with Bugatti chief check driver Andy Wallace behind the wheel.
Bugatti Mistral World Document Automotive hits 282 mph – Nov. 2024
The brand new velocity smashes the earlier report of 265.6 mph, set by Hennessey’s Venom GT Spyder in 2016. Bugatti’s Chiron Tremendous Sport 300+ remains to be the quickest manufacturing automobile, having hit 304 mph in 2019.
Wallace drove a one-off instance of the Mistral often called the Mistral World Document Automotive to the report velocity. In keeping with Bugatti, the automobile’s proprietor was current to witness the run.
Bugatti Mistral World Document Automotive hits 282 mph – Nov. 2024
The automobile price its proprietor 14 million euros (roughly $14.7 million), as a substitute of the 5 million euros ($5.3 million) that the common Mistral prices, and it options the signature naked carbon and orange livery that Bugatti reserves for particular World Document Version automobiles, named as a result of all of them established new land velocity data of their day.
Earlier examples embrace the Veyron Tremendous Sport World Document Version, Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse World Document Version, and Chiron Tremendous Sport 300+, and an instance of every can also be owned by the proprietor of the Mistral World Document Automotive, Bugatti mentioned.
Bugatti Mistral World Document Automotive hits 282 mph – Nov. 2024
Bugatti introduced the Mistral for the primary time throughout 2022 Monterey Automotive Week as a celebration of the quad-turbocharged 8.0-liter W-16 engine that first debuted within the Veyron 20 years in the past. Bugatti’s subsequent hypercar, the Tourbillon, incorporates a plug-in hybrid powertrain with a newly developed 8.3-liter V-16 engine as its internal-combustion part.
The engine within the Mistral is rated at 1,578 hp, and Bugatti has by no means revealed any extra efficiency metrics aside from the automobile having a high velocity larger than the ruled 261 mph of the Chiron, whose platform the Mistral shares.
Bugatti Mistral wind tunnel testing
Bugatti by no means supposed to launch an open-top automobile on the Chiron’s platform, making the event of the Mistral tougher than most convertibles. Along with modifying the Chiron’s carbon-fiber tub to ship sufficient rigidity with out the roof, engineers additionally needed to work on the aerodynamics to make sure stability at record-breaking speeds.
Bugatti has confirmed it is going to solely construct 99 Mistrals, and all construct slots have already been claimed.
