I'll drink to that!

no in cockpit shots???

It's not much of a victory, since the Aero doesn't blow my mind like the Bugatti does. It actually bores me.

Go USA, nonetheless!

@Fitty7lax: Here is the only one available at what is claimed to be their exclusive, US dealer: [www.motorcarslv.com]

Still, I'm shocked they even have one for sale.

I know the question is continuously tossed around, but I have not yet seen an answer: How exactly is this a production car?

I mean, back in the day Ferrari knew the right people to get around the 50-car homologation rules for the GTO, but doesn't the impramateur of the Guinness book suggest that there are some guidelines to call a car "production"? or not?

Didn't James May say the SSC wasn't "slippery enough" to be the world's fastest production car on TopGear last season? Shows what Cap'n Slow knows.

And I still don't care. The Bugatti is a technological marvel, this is a tube frame chassis with a twin turbo V8, and at this point, it essentially looks like a one-off to me.

Funny how the camera speed is too slow for cars at this speed.

Brown field...car in middle of brown field frame...brown field.

ChunkChunkChunk...

How many Veyrons have been made? If a factory sells just a few cars, to me it qualifies as a production car. It's not like there's gonna be a half-million of any 200+ mph car out there.

At least this isn't someone else's car with a turbo slapped on it. That's cheating, in my opinion.

@dculberson: So you dont think that Rüf, 9ff and Evolution qualify as "production" vehicles?

I would tend to agree that 9ff and Evolution do not qualify as production, but Rüf to me qualifies as a production house (and it also qualifies according to the German government)

@DCULBERSON Last I saw, 70 had been sold last year around this time.

@Elwood. Yup. The bugatti is about more then just top speed, just as the McLaren F1 was. The only reason the Bugatti isn't achieving faster then 254.23423423 MPH is because it's governed at that speed. I'm curious just how long it took that fugly car to hit 256.19.

Also, having spent serious time in WA, I must say wahoo. I love those freeways! So long, so empty, so just waiting for you to test your newly chipped and de-governed car :D.

@Speedie: To me it depends on the level of work they do to the vehicles. Ruf does some crazy shit to their cars, so I don't have a problem with them. But someone taking an existing car, making minor modifications, and trying to claim they're a 'manufacturer' just bugs me. Of course, that's opinion.

I don't know enough about 9ff or Evolution to judge with my jaded eye..

Ruggels: But god dammit, I don't think anyone see this as a direct competition
to the Bugatti veyron, it's more in the league of Koenigsegg. Except that this car looks like a kit car while the c-dingz from Koenigsegg looks like something alien designed, in bad way.

The competition with the Veyron is pretty irrelevant actually. Everyone knows that top speed is meaningless except for manufacturer "bragging rights." Even people fortunate enough to own hypercars and drive them in places like Germany say they never take them past 200. It just isn't safe or practical. People want to buy cars like these for several reasons, image, appreciation for design and engineering, status, racing heritage, thrills, fun etc... The thrill of taking a car to it's limits is something a lot of people consider fun but top speed is just one aspect of this. Cars that focus on top speed alone are lame and that is why the SSC is not in the same league as the veyron etc...

Am I the only one who noticed that the driver here is 71? And who says seniors can't drive? Rock on sir, rawk ON!

Winner, but it's such a hideous beast to look at. Looks like a kitcar.
Veyron FTW!

Well, it's really cool that someone has a new record for the fastest production cars in the world. But what this world, especially the US, needs is a mass transit that could go faster that the speed of sound! Or just faster than this car. Imagine if you had a train or a super-bus that went 200MPH or more...I could get drunk in Las Vegas and come home to LA that night without worrying about getting a DUI!

Aye, and if my grandmother had wheels she'd be a wagon.

Brilliant! Aw, c'mon, somebody had to say it.

Someone should sell a couple turnkey top fuel dragsters and then claim the world production car speed record. Or does "production" imply "street legal"?

U-S-A!
Way to go.

The question I really want to know is when is someone gonna go after the 300 MPH mark? I meen 276 mph is almost there. Just wondering really.

@HDC: That's what first hit me; hooning at 71. Go for it gramps!