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The Bugatti Chiron is already four years old. It sounds like we were getting poetic about the hypercar’s breakneck top speed of 261 mph (420 km / h) yesterday, but it debuted in March 2016 at the Geneva Motor Show. Since then, we’ve seen a lot of videos showing the car in action, but actually, we’ve seen very few clips of the car hitting its top speed.
It is true that there are very few places in the world where a legal car on the street can reach such speeds, but Bugatti has a new series of videos on YouTube that reminds us how fast this car is. Naturally, that includes a high-speed race, which is featured in the video above.
This is actually the fifth episode in a series called Andy Wallace: How … ChironAnd as you can probably guess, legendary Bugatti race car driver and test pilot Andy Wallace directs the series of shorts. All five episodes were released today, starting with an introduction to the car followed by an inside look, drive modes, and launch control. As cool as Chiron is, those themes have been featured extensively in her four-year model life. So we skipped to episode five, which focuses on the speed key.
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Like the Veyron before, the Chiron requires a special key to enter full speed mode. The video shows us the key, with Wallace narrating some of the system checks Chiron goes through before allowing the driver to start. At that point, we enjoyed some artfully ingenious flyby camera angles mixed in with interior shots as the Chiron runs at 261 mph in a decidedly effortless way.
The sprint doesn’t take place in real time, but we know that the car can reach 249 mph in just 32 seconds. Reaching the additional 12 mph doesn’t take much longer; We don’t know the exact time, but seeing the speedometer going up gain when you touch the speed limiter tells us everything we need to know about the four-turbo W16 behind the driver.
With the speed limiter removed and with some additional aerodynamic adjustments to the rear, we know the Chiron can top 300 mph. That is, prototyped anyway: The custom Chiron Longtail hit 304 mph (490 km / h) last year, but the production version called the Chiron Super Sport 300+ will be electronically limited to only 273 mph (440 km / h).
