http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2010/07/06/worlds-fastest-car-crowned-mph/
The 0-62 mph sprint still takes about 2.5 seconds but 0-124 mph comes up in just 7.3 seconds and 186 mph passes in just 15 seconds. However, the number everyone wants to know is how fast will it go? Bugatti and its test driver Pierre-Henri Raphanel have already taken care of this, posting top speeds of 265.9 mph and 269.8 mph in a Guinness world record attempt. The final number for the record books was 268 mph, a figure that even hit Bugatti’s engineering team by surprise.
If there was a straight shot lane from here to work, this car could do it in 6 minutes. My normal commute is closer to 50.
-the Centaur
UPDATE: A friend pointed out that at top speed the car would run out of gas in 13 minutes. That’s there and back to work, right? Surely, a friend asked, one tank for a round trip to work … that’s green enough, right? Anthony can handle that guilt, no?
Uh … no. For the record, my Prius gets approximately 48 miles per gallon, with the average often approaching 50. That’s closer to 20 trips to and from work. Much more green for my taste, and much less green out of my wallet.
Of course, if I had $1.8 million to drop on a car, my fuel prices would be the last of my worries. That having been said, a $1.8 million would buy me a house in Mountain View with a solar roof and a Tesla, so this Bugatti STILL wouldn’t be my next car.
