Top Gear - Bugatti Veyron top speed test - BBC

Captain Slow is given the task of driving the Bugatti veyron at it's top speed - 253 miles per hour. Can the slowest driver in Britain do it? Find out in this free auto video from BBC Worldwide and Top Gear.

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[Nex Yxy]

Britain invented the imperial system and forced the colonies like america to adopt it.

So it is natural that they use it.

Your argument is invalid.

[dodgingdaniel]

The Imperial System was made in Britain

[Robert Mackintosh]

Remember Valid is from Romania. And ..... UH Clarkson & Vald? No poof there! Allegedly!



[Joseph Kalaj]

Das ist doof

[McLarenMercedes]

Where's the PROOF of this??

Back in 1987 Road & Track clocked a Ruf CTR (commonly referred to as the "Yellowbird") to a genuine 211mph. No other car at the time could break that, and had it been able to would've

Rudolf Caracciola drove 268mph on the German Autobahn in January 1938. Bernd Rosemeyer was doing 274mph but was killed on the return run thus Caracciola's record stood

Did I mention they achieved this 75 years ago, and unlike the supposed Sledgehammer run it was documented and filmed?

[Apidium]

I maxed my Veyron out to more than 280mph...

In GT5 :D

[75cadillacfleetwood]

1987 Callaway Sledgehammer Corvette can go 254 miles per hour. On a track that's not nearly as smooth as that, on a day that is not nearly as ideal as that. For only 400,000 dollars. With no special key or regulation or any of that. Did I mention it's rear wheel drive? Or that they did this over 25 years ago?

[shbly zaher]

240p... seriously? bbc?

[timothy patrick]

Ich möchte...

[KingofTamriel Smith]

Imagine a crash

[Rogers1977]

"Vlad the Impaler... is back." I love that.

[Bensalem Wissem]

stupid ass