Because the road is straight and he don't have to put too much effort into it. Try going half that speed on your average road, you will be freaking out too.
@Deidra-V also he concentrates on what he's doing he doesn't try play for the viewer but seriously 258 mph in a straight line one little sneeze cough blink to much and that car will be obliterated when it hits the tree your 2 miles away from
@@JetFalcon710 Dunno, there's also Smokey Nagata a veteran of doing over 300 kmh on track and public roads and he seems to be the owner of Top Secret tuning shop. He travels worldwide to set records on tracks and public roads.
Anyone noticed that captain slow at 4:24 when slowing down (still driving 300+) looking in the backview mirror for .... for what actually? a bloody tailgating van?
+DiZh0 that's better then me. I would have had either a heart attack or shit my pants, which ever came first.... we know what happens to the car and driver after that.
+DiZh0 Probably just out of habit. A lot of the Stars in the Reasonably Priced Car comment that they keep checking the mirrors even though there's no one else on the track.
Habit, but I also reason that perhaps he was half expecting tires and engine bits to be flying around back there considering the speed he had just done. After all, the tires barely last more than 15mins at top speed. Hell, I know I check for stuff behind me after crazy shenanigans in my own car lol
The way this top speed run was done made it feel like James was pushing the known boundaries of what a car could do, and he was. Every minute of this film puts you on the edge of your seat, even if you’ve seen it a thousand times since it first aired. There’s a feel to it that new Top Gear simply cannot accomplish. Only they could make a 261mph Chiron run look boring
Don't forget, Bugattis are famous for being so incredibly well built and engineered, that even at high speeds there's no rattling, crackling, crazy wind noise, steering wheel feeling like u have to hold onto it for dear life etc. So it's not a scary cabin to sit in even doing 200+ mph.
@@ninjapants7688 in the air you don't realize how fast you are as you are not passing stationary objects that are close to you. In a car, however. You do. You see the landscape pass around you. Its an entirely different experience, even though airplanes are usually a lot faster (although the chiron does actually get the one-up on the majority of small planes. It's just that fast)
The bugatti creates around 5.9tonnes of drag at 430km/h at 1013hpa, a Boeing 777 creates 7.4 tonnes of drag at 800km/h ground speed at 307.4hpa, if the air density at 0m is same as 30,000 feet, the car is actually doing a 637.8km/h or 0.58mach. Despite how inefficient, how big the engine is, how much fuel it needed, it's still an awesome car. It still able to do a 1:16.8 at top gear track. It worth the price tag.
Fantastic car, fantastic drive, but I'm afraid you've got your sums wrong there. Generating 5.9 tonnes of tractive force is too much for first gear, let alone top gear.
The true hero here is the tires. Congrats to the manufacturer. People dont realize how difficult it is to create tires that wont shred at such speeds. Let's get real. The tires are very very important, most would say the most important study in this video was the tires. The veyron is just a tool used to show off the capabilities of the tires. Tires.
Indeed, I remember someone saying ( I think it was Bugatti or someone else ) that the problem with going fast is not power, but tyres. Going at high speed puts a lot of heat and stress on the tyres, so being able to hold up at such high speeds is remarkable really
@@doabarrellroll69 If Polly Motorsport new about it, their 1980s Trans Am wouldn't have gone 407kph. No engineers, no waiting for optimal temp, no custom made tires. Just aftermarket parts and a bloke who tinkered 80s car together.
Dobrica Cvetinovic you saw it too, trust me shows how shit the new top gear is. Also bro do you have any idea who the driver was in that new top gear video?😂😂 they literally stole a random school teacher
Tanveer Khan literally no idea who the driver is, top gear will never be the same, in my opinion Matt Watson from carwow could save it but it won’t happen...
Moi MacArt In the actual episode James actually mentioned that he thought the car has stopped and wanted to open the door and get out, it was still doing 80.
267 MPH, Two Hundred And Sixty Seven Miles an Hour. In a road car, Wow that’s astonishing. As James says its a Concord moment. Top Gear. Was the best motoring program on TV, still miss it to this day.
This report says a lot about James May's driving skills, by the way. Even on a pro track and with the help of top class tires, a team of engineers and nothing left to chance, driving at that speed AND commenting it for your TV show is crazy. And he almost hit the top speed.
Top Gear was a much bigger show when the Veyron SS came out than it was back when the original Veyron was new. Top Gear in the early years was a far cry from the global sensation that it would later grow into.
@@Emptiness_Machine_2001 The Veyron was still in the top four/five - no small accomplishment for a luxury grand tourer going up against purpose-built track cars. Dissing the Veyron for its lap time there is like dissing a weightlifter for entering the Olympic 400-meter race and ONLY getting bronze.
As a former speed demon, every 10mph above 130 is a whole new game. Everything is different at those speeds. My maximum was almost 190mph and I promise you I never want to do it again! I remember because when I got off that bike I said out loud "I never want to do that again!" Going that fast completely cured me of my penchant for speed. It's strange...everything is happening so fast yet so slow at the same time. It's hard to describe. When I slowed to 70mph the reality of what I had just done for the last 25 miles set in and it scared the piss out of me. It was like I was a drug addict who finally realized that it was time to stop this behavior or I would hurt someone else or die. I'm very fortunate neither happened. I don't want to hurt anyone. I just had a speed problem. I am now fully cured.
I remember watching this when it first came out as a kid. There was something always special about the rare moments when james got to preview a hypercar, it was so peaceful & entertaining watching him hit high speeds but exhilarating at the same time.
***** You're right actually. "Ironic" can mean "coincidental" or "unexpected". I just thought either of those two or maybe "fitting" would be a better word for it due to their primary meaning being so.
The bugatti veyron is my favorite car. I don't really care for the Hennessey venom gt. I also love some other super cars, like koenigsegg agera r, pagani zonda/huayra, lamborghini aventador, lamborghini veneno, mclaren p1, ferrari enzo, and much much more, but bugatti veyron will always be my favorite car. Even the badass futuristic looking lamborghini veneno is nothing compared to a bugatti in my opinion
And it continues. A keyword to consider - *stability*...even at those insane speeds. I am yet to hear of another machine that can emulate this even as it hits 431 kph (approx. 268 mph).
That's an absolutely amazing car, the regular Veyron and the Super Sport. Not to mention the Chiron. Bugatti 100% made one of the most iconic cars ever built. Will always be forever the king of the automotive world.
I will correct you a little bit. They have made THE MOST ICONIC cars ever built. I don't care about Hennessey or anything else that might be slightly faster, these hypercars are the epitome of speed and will forever be the best. And they are too heavy as well.
Even if there are (as of 2014) a few faster top-speed "production" cars (Hennessey Venom, probably the Koenigsegg One:1), when you consider the supercars the Veyron SS beat around the Top Gear test track, *and* the top speed of the car, and that it is still a very comfortable, luxurious GT car, the Veyron is still in a class all its own. Only 5 cars have gone faster around the Top Gear test track than the Bugatti Super Sport: the Pagani Huayra, BAC Mono, Ariel Atom 500 V8, McLaren MP4-12C, and Lamborghini Aventador -- much lighter cars all, with better power to weight ratios. To give perspective, the Veyron SS was almost *three seconds* faster than the agile Ferrari 458 Italia and the Porsche 997 GT2! I'm looking forward to seeing what the purportedly redesigned 2015/16 Veyron will be like -- even more horsepower than the SS? 1500 hp? Lighter? Even better aerodynamics? Whatever the case, it will still be in a class all its own. (Yes, I'm a Bugatti "fan" but I love all the great supercars -- love Lambos, and Ferraris, the mighty McLarens, the Porsche 918 Spyder, and am a huge fan of the cars of Christian Koenigsegg. His new One:1 is mind-blowing!) But the Bugatti SS deserves respect as one of the greatest achievements in automobile engineering.
You can't even count those 5 cars though because they had different drivers behind the wheel. The new stig is noticeably faster than the old one. Frankly it's insane how much time the new stig is able to shave off laps at the top gear track. He must be a former F1 driver instead of just a touring car driving like Ben Collins because the lap times have proven he's miles better than ben Perfect example is the Mp4-12c. At many tracks, the 458 italia is FASTER. Yet at the top gear track, the Mp4 was over 3 seconds faster. How can that be? Clearly it's because the 458 was driven by Ben Collins, and the MP4 was driven by the super stig
Hugo Stiglitz I remember Ben Collins also mentioned Bugatti Veyron SS lap time could be faster on Top Gear track. Imagine the new Stig repeating it with a near two tons high speed luxury GT. It is no wonder Veyron is still the benchmark hard to duplicate by the competition without compromise.
Hugo Stiglitz Well and the Top Gear track is where McLaren tests their vehicles so the Mp4-12c is somewhat at home on that track. Completely agree though that the new Stig is much better than Ben.
i managed to get my car up to 120 on the highway here in the states. i was thinking about going a little faster since my cars top speed on paper is 134 miles an hour. but i was running low on gas. this probably saved my life since about a day later i found out that my tires arent rated to go above 120....
I think there are segments of the Autobahn that could be converted to a plane landing strip, and considering it doesn't have a speed limit, you could max it out there.
1:15 How dare you use stock sounds top gear? I know that sound from HL2! You've lied to us all! Appearantly a key turning inside of an ignition is the same as loading a shell into a spas-12.
you got´to really think about that for a second. in the 1920 the Speed RECORD was about (if i remember correctly) 200 kph. in something undrivable. 400 kph was reached much later in something you wouldnt even get inside nowadays. seriously at some Point they said its a 50/50 Chance if its gonna explode or not. and now? look at this beautiful Piece of Engineering reaching 350+ i a wink and 414 in not much of a struggle...
The pinnacle of the internal combustion engine it was never going to get better than this I mean the chiron is nice but I think the veyron put bugatti on the map
1:17 hey wait, that's the sound effect for reloading the shotgun in Half-Life², I know because that gun in that game is why I'm a gun enthusiast and used to listen to the reload non-stop.
@@zackaryhorne3289 yeah the man is correct. SSC was faked. They eventually even admitted it themselves after enough professionals called them out on it.
It's boring to see ssc fans face now because it was fake speed and not because of an error but because they want to claim the title from bugatti. Sadly no one can
Iam watching this in 2024 and I still cant believe that he went that fast!! Richard or Jeremy wouldn't be a suprise but out of all people it had to be James!!
I am not a biggest fan of big and heavy cars, even when they have crap ton of power, but Veyron and Chiron are exception, those cars combine such a brutal top speed with incredible luxury and extremely clever engineering.
I love how Richard and Jeremy always freak out when a car is going real fast but James isn't even screaming
Because the road is straight and he don't have to put too much effort into it. Try going half that speed on your average road, you will be freaking out too.
He is called captain slow because everything is slow to him
@Deidra-V also he concentrates on what he's doing he doesn't try play for the viewer but seriously 258 mph in a straight line one little sneeze cough blink to much and that car will be obliterated when it hits the tree your 2 miles away from
man flies planes hes got nerves cold as steel
Probably cause Jeremy is relatively excited going fast.
My favorite line ever: 'Godspeed, captain slow!'
He is now captain fast when he said that line
Lol
@@machahitheshkumarreddy4334 u stupid
buffeting
as i read this i paused at the same time as he said that
Can’t believe this car is 15 years old makes me feel old
The car is not 15 year old it's 10 or 11 years old
@@sabelogama9522 He meant the 2005 veyron
@@arteonyx he should have said the grandsport instead
@@sabelogama9522 stfu
Same
Well, realistically, James is probably one of the few who will ever take that car to that speed
There's some moron, who reached 417 kmh at Autobahn. I kinda respect that moron.
@@MJ-uk6lu How in flak does someone manage that?
@@JetFalcon710 Dunno, there's also Smokey Nagata a veteran of doing over 300 kmh on track and public roads and he seems to be the owner of Top Secret tuning shop. He travels worldwide to set records on tracks and public roads.
@@MJ-uk6lu Incredible
@@MJ-uk6lu yea but nowhere close to this
this is topgear at its best
Yea, before it's gone to utter shit
Now with cris Evans it's awful
word is that chris is leaving as he and matt don't get on, the bbc need matt more.
Update, now Matt Le Blanc is leaving too. Lol
@@SF-li9kh are they getting anyone else in, or wrapping it all up?
5:36
- What was his average?
- 431km/h.
Silence.
- In miles?
- 267.
Wooooooooooooooooooooow.
Retard units...
big boss and yet they still use it on a British television shows and one of the biggest countries on Earth uses it.
@@yammmit 17 countries use mph and 179 don't
Vaidas Spu and that probably won’t change.
3:11 what does it say in english?
Anyone noticed that captain slow at 4:24 when slowing down (still driving 300+) looking in the backview mirror for .... for what actually? a bloody tailgating van?
+DiZh0 that's better then me. I would have had either a heart attack or shit my pants, which ever came first.... we know what happens to the car and driver after that.
+DiZh0 Probably just out of habit. A lot of the Stars in the Reasonably Priced Car comment that they keep checking the mirrors even though there's no one else on the track.
+DiZh0 he's just worried a trailer couldnt match his braking power..
Habit, but I also reason that perhaps he was half expecting tires and engine bits to be flying around back there considering the speed he had just done. After all, the tires barely last more than 15mins at top speed. Hell, I know I check for stuff behind me after crazy shenanigans in my own car lol
Clarkson did once say that the Transit van is unofficially the world's fastest vehicle!
The way this top speed run was done made it feel like James was pushing the known boundaries of what a car could do, and he was. Every minute of this film puts you on the edge of your seat, even if you’ve seen it a thousand times since it first aired. There’s a feel to it that new Top Gear simply cannot accomplish. Only they could make a 261mph Chiron run look boring
I drove the Agera RS and got it to 285mph....
Then I turned off my Xbox cuz I had to go to sleep.
Woah it has a built in Xbox and bed!?
Yeh sounds like something I would do 😂😂
@@sunnyjim981 hahahahahaaha.
@@sunnyjim981 😆 Nice one
Firemarioflower thx man😂
I am seriously impressed by Captain Slow, he was so normal and relaxed even at that speed. This guy is special!
He flies planes, this kind of speed shouldn't bother him.
@@ninjapants7688 its different in the air
Don't forget, Bugattis are famous for being so incredibly well built and engineered, that even at high speeds there's no rattling, crackling, crazy wind noise, steering wheel feeling like u have to hold onto it for dear life etc. So it's not a scary cabin to sit in even doing 200+ mph.
@@ninjapants7688 in the air you don't realize how fast you are as you are not passing stationary objects that are close to you. In a car, however. You do. You see the landscape pass around you. Its an entirely different experience, even though airplanes are usually a lot faster (although the chiron does actually get the one-up on the majority of small planes. It's just that fast)
The bugatti creates around 5.9tonnes of drag at 430km/h at 1013hpa, a Boeing 777 creates 7.4 tonnes of drag at 800km/h ground speed at 307.4hpa, if the air density at 0m is same as 30,000 feet, the car is actually doing a 637.8km/h or 0.58mach. Despite how inefficient, how big the engine is, how much fuel it needed, it's still an awesome car. It still able to do a 1:16.8 at top gear track. It worth the price tag.
stop taking drugs...
@@nickdemondares 🤣
Price tag is irrelevant if you make 1 million a month
Fantastic car, fantastic drive, but I'm afraid you've got your sums wrong there. Generating 5.9 tonnes of tractive force is too much for first gear, let alone top gear.
6 tons of drag? Holy shit
The true hero here is the tires. Congrats to the manufacturer. People dont realize how difficult it is to create tires that wont shred at such speeds. Let's get real. The tires are very very important, most would say the most important study in this video was the tires. The veyron is just a tool used to show off the capabilities of the tires. Tires.
Indeed, I remember someone saying ( I think it was Bugatti or someone else ) that the problem with going fast is not power, but tyres. Going at high speed puts a lot of heat and stress on the tyres, so being able to hold up at such high speeds is remarkable really
Finally someone who understands cars properly
@@doabarrellroll69 If Polly Motorsport new about it, their 1980s Trans Am wouldn't have gone 407kph.
No engineers, no waiting for optimal temp, no custom made tires. Just aftermarket parts and a bloke who tinkered 80s car together.
Ya tire'd mate?
I tried calling Bugatti to get tire specs for my Accord V6. They hung up on me. Rude.
Captain slow went over 400 kph.....
Let's just sink that in
Luthadie coke?
Fanta please.
Ill take a Dr. Pepper if you have it
you got any coke zero? if not dr.pepper is fine thanks
Yeah he’s living the parallel unoverse
"Godspeed, Captain Slow"
If bugatti wash captian slow wai chan he go to 431 then
Koenigsegg 457 km/h
@@danox4755 Chrion 490km/h!!!!
@@Firemarioflower dudo que la velocidad maxima de un auto pase de aproximadamente 420 a 490, ni existen pruebas de eso.
best quote ever
Today new top gear released chiron sport run and they got to 423 but it was so boring.......
Dobrica Cvetinovic you saw it too, trust me shows how shit the new top gear is.
Also bro do you have any idea who the driver was in that new top gear video?😂😂 they literally stole a random school teacher
Yeah I saw that. And only 3mph faster. Lol
The ss went faster than the Chiron. Bugatti tf
Same here! Had to get my old and only Top gear fix LOL at 5:25
Tanveer Khan literally no idea who the driver is, top gear will never be the same, in my opinion Matt Watson from carwow could save it but it won’t happen...
Even after all these years, this vehicle still stands among the best of the best. The Bugatti Veyron SS is a LEGEND that never dies.
At that speed when you slow down to 200 km/h you feel like you're stopped.
You just want to open the door and walk out. lol
Moi MacArt lol my car wouldn't even make it to 200 km/h i get to 120 km/h and my car will fall apart :(
rebekadunn Welcome to the club :( When I get to 80km/h I am like it is alive
That made me LOL. Cause i imagined someone actually doing that.
lol
Moi MacArt In the actual episode James actually mentioned that he thought the car has stopped and wanted to open the door and get out, it was still doing 80.
He wears a helmet because that will save your life when you crash at 420 km/h
The bugatti ks made from carbond fiber, same as an f1 car, only 100km/h faster. I think he would have a chance to live
Talk with bicocchi, test driver on that circuit with that car.
@@Svilly12 Lol, i think you're right. But you shpupd't go that hard on them
It’s a start, better than nothing
It's not to save your life it's too keep your head relatively intact so they can put it in a casket.
267 MPH, Two Hundred And Sixty Seven Miles an Hour. In a road car, Wow that’s astonishing. As James says its a Concord moment.
Top Gear. Was the best motoring program on TV, still miss it to this day.
Original and best.
Polly Trans Am: laughs.
Well now thats quite normal for hypercars
Grand tour my dude.
road car HAHAH
This report says a lot about James May's driving skills, by the way. Even on a pro track and with the help of top class tires, a team of engineers and nothing left to chance, driving at that speed AND commenting it for your TV show is crazy. And he almost hit the top speed.
did he actually look at the camera for a micro second there, at 414kmh!
Yes...
3:56
he looked away from the road for about half a second, during which time he traveled approx. 190 feet (about two-thirds of an American football field)
@@MunworthCrowell what is it in meters
@@akugdlek About 60m
Did anyone else see top gears new video today? This is WAAAAY better
agreed
Loll i am here after the Buggati Chiron hit the 300 mph
James May FTW
@@jokersherri8110 yes
Sometimes I feel a bit rebellious and send my Toyota Camry up to 71mph
on a highway
Ahah Toyota. Are you in the US. 65 mph limits right?
+TheCatOnWallStreet Oh that ain't nothing, i once got my Corsa B 1,7L Diesel to 54mph on a long ass freeway on a windy day.
+GhettoMist california, the most overrated, populated state in usa is 80 mph on freeways.. so... no 65 mph limit.
+TheCatOnWallStreet I read that in Jeremy Clarksons voice like when he says "The fastest car... IN THE WORLD!".
+TheCatOnWallStreet I read that in Jeremy Clarksons voice like when he says "The fastest car... IN THE WORLD!".
Imagine this headline
Captain Slow: The fastest man on earth.
So... Bugatti won't give the Stig a Veyron, but he's allowed to have a Super-Sport???
Because they knew the Super sport would do better on the track, whilst the regular wasn't that refined and would had a lot of "embarrasing" understeer
They did eventually, it wasnt even the quickest round the track and was beaten by a Zonda F Roadster
@@peterroberts1132 Not too much of a surprise considering the thing weighs so much
Top Gear was a much bigger show when the Veyron SS came out than it was back when the original Veyron was new. Top Gear in the early years was a far cry from the global sensation that it would later grow into.
@@Emptiness_Machine_2001 The Veyron was still in the top four/five - no small accomplishment for a luxury grand tourer going up against purpose-built track cars. Dissing the Veyron for its lap time there is like dissing a weightlifter for entering the Olympic 400-meter race and ONLY getting bronze.
4:17 That flyby always gives me goosebumps
To me it’s this dramatized 4:13
Strange how the speed is also 4:17
I got my Veyron up to 265 on a freeway
then I woke up
+Liltrainer xD
+Mike Wall He was talking about his dream.
I got my Bugatti eb110 on Forza horizon 2 to 275 mph
xD good one
Trainer I saw my younger brother get his mclaren up to 400km and then I relished it was a game
As a former speed demon, every 10mph above 130 is a whole new game. Everything is different at those speeds. My maximum was almost 190mph and I promise you I never want to do it again! I remember because when I got off that bike I said out loud "I never want to do that again!" Going that fast completely cured me of my penchant for speed.
It's strange...everything is happening so fast yet so slow at the same time. It's hard to describe. When I slowed to 70mph the reality of what I had just done for the last 25 miles set in and it scared the piss out of me. It was like I was a drug addict who finally realized that it was time to stop this behavior or I would hurt someone else or die. I'm very fortunate neither happened. I don't want to hurt anyone. I just had a speed problem. I am now fully cured.
I’m the same I hit 200+ mph on my Suzuki Hayabusa crazy I’ll never again see them speeds out of the bikes now paramotor flying is 1000% better
Who’s here after the Chiron finally broke 300+?
Kavitt me
Kavitt me
Me
Meeeeeeeeeee
Me...
1:16 for Halo 1 shotgun shell sound.
+MrGlorifiedCake dont get it
All of the sounds from Halo 1 are public domain.*****
Half life 2 more like
Nope half life 2
@@johnyguitar258 R/whooosh
5:25 I like James' congratulations.
I remember watching this when it first came out as a kid. There was something always special about the rare moments when james got to preview a hypercar, it was so peaceful & entertaining watching him hit high speeds but exhilarating at the same time.
Its ironic at 4:17 the car is going 417 km...
+ChickenWithABeard That's coincidence
+ChickenWithABeard illuminati confirmed
That's not what ironic means.
***** You're right actually. "Ironic" can mean "coincidental" or "unexpected". I just thought either of those two or maybe "fitting" would be a better word for it due to their primary meaning being so.
+ChickenWithABeard illuminati
Captain Slow at over 400 kilometers per hour xDD
That wasn't really miles it was kilometers (Miles & Kilometers are different)
Cock Imagen, if he was going 400 MP/H... this car would just go if it hits the smallest bumb in the road! :D
Cock
oops sorry :/
*****
xD
U mean 400KMH
The most amazing thing to me is how stable it is at that speed. That is this car's top trump, not how fast it goes, but how easy it makes it look.
4:03 When the driver go over speed and suddenly he watch his way to straight heaven... RIP
The bugatti veyron is my favorite car. I don't really care for the Hennessey venom gt. I also love some other super cars, like koenigsegg agera r, pagani zonda/huayra, lamborghini aventador, lamborghini veneno, mclaren p1, ferrari enzo, and much much more, but bugatti veyron will always be my favorite car. Even the badass futuristic looking lamborghini veneno is nothing compared to a bugatti in my opinion
damn true!!
What about its successor, Chiron?
@@dbclass4075 I commented this 8 years ago likely before the Chiron came out
@@Rumblefan Now it is out now, did you like it? How does it compare to Veyron?
4:04 When you reach 420 km/h.
At over 9000 RPM
404, 420
690 next
BREAKING NEWS BUGATTI CREATES THE BUGATTI CHIRON 690+ pro max super sport light weight with 7 EXTRA camera’s!
Or it would be a quad supercharger
And it continues. A keyword to consider - *stability*...even at those insane speeds. I am yet to hear of another machine that can emulate this even as it hits 431 kph (approx. 268 mph).
***** That's the funny part. I'm american too.
Not all Americans are delusional enough to think a Corvette is as stable as a 2 million dollar Veyron
The camera work, sounds and pictures of BBC Top Gear is still amazing. Kudos !!!
Do I hear the Half Life 2 Shotgun reloading at 1:16?
You heard that as well ?
Fear Loathing Yeah, mate!
+ClayRanger143 You are right :D
My reaction was exactly the same :D
ClayRanger143 no its mor like halo shotgun
"Damn him!" So solid XD
This piece is why I love TopGear. The music and everything, just gives me chills.
That's an absolutely amazing car, the regular Veyron and the Super Sport. Not to mention the Chiron. Bugatti 100% made one of the most iconic cars ever built. Will always be forever the king of the automotive world.
I will correct you a little bit. They have made THE MOST ICONIC cars ever built. I don't care about Hennessey or anything else that might be slightly faster, these hypercars are the epitome of speed and will forever be the best. And they are too heavy as well.
Even if there are (as of 2014) a few faster top-speed "production" cars (Hennessey Venom, probably the Koenigsegg One:1), when you consider the supercars the Veyron SS beat around the Top Gear test track, *and* the top speed of the car, and that it is still a very comfortable, luxurious GT car, the Veyron is still in a class all its own. Only 5 cars have gone faster around the Top Gear test track than the Bugatti Super Sport: the Pagani Huayra, BAC Mono, Ariel Atom 500 V8, McLaren MP4-12C, and Lamborghini Aventador -- much lighter cars all, with better power to weight ratios. To give perspective, the Veyron SS was almost *three seconds* faster than the agile Ferrari 458 Italia and the Porsche 997 GT2! I'm looking forward to seeing what the purportedly redesigned 2015/16 Veyron will be like -- even more horsepower than the SS? 1500 hp? Lighter? Even better aerodynamics? Whatever the case, it will still be in a class all its own. (Yes, I'm a Bugatti "fan" but I love all the great supercars -- love Lambos, and Ferraris, the mighty McLarens, the Porsche 918 Spyder, and am a huge fan of the cars of Christian Koenigsegg. His new One:1 is mind-blowing!) But the Bugatti SS deserves respect as one of the greatest achievements in automobile engineering.
You can't even count those 5 cars though because they had different drivers behind the wheel.
The new stig is noticeably faster than the old one. Frankly it's insane how much time the new stig is able to shave off laps at the top gear track. He must be a former F1 driver instead of just a touring car driving like Ben Collins because the lap times have proven he's miles better than ben
Perfect example is the Mp4-12c. At many tracks, the 458 italia is FASTER. Yet at the top gear track, the Mp4 was over 3 seconds faster. How can that be? Clearly it's because the 458 was driven by Ben Collins, and the MP4 was driven by the super stig
Hugo Stiglitz
I remember Ben Collins also mentioned Bugatti Veyron SS lap time could be faster on Top Gear track. Imagine the new Stig repeating it with a near two tons high speed luxury GT. It is no wonder Veyron is still the benchmark hard to duplicate by the competition without compromise.
Hugo Stiglitz Well and the Top Gear track is where McLaren tests their vehicles so the Mp4-12c is somewhat at home on that track. Completely agree though that the new Stig is much better than Ben.
The New 2016 Buggati isn't a Veyron, it`s the Chiron. 286 MPH!!.
RichardFeynmanRules you are naming tin car rubbish
so captain slow is actually fast huh
Kevin Hanandi Captain Fast. Hmm...
the fastest in top gear
What happens when the world's slowest driver meets the world's fastest car
Nothing will ever beat the timeless beauty of Veyron. MAGNIFICENT
Each to their own, but I think a McLaren is far better looking.
@@christopherdean1326 which the mclaren f1?
@@rblxplays8541 This one;
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Yep
It's the ugliest supercar, ever.
The fact that it showed 417km/h at 4:17 is pure wizardy
Hard to believe James May was the fastest person in the world in a production car for a certain amount of time until the test driver beat him :D
1:17 Half-Life 2 Shotgun shell sound
YEAH MATE I NOTICED LOL
I think thats actually copy and pasted
It's royalty free, like a lot of sound effects in games, movies and tv shows.
431km/h is also the max speed of the Shanghai maglev. I've been on that and the thought of doing the same speed in a car is quite terrifying.
The old Top Gear nostalgia feels amazing ❤
5:17 SMOKE WEED EVERYDAY
hhhhhhh from libya
Aha, yeah, 420 km/h. 4/20
😂
000
I had goosebumps watching this again, such a beast of a car
i managed to get my car up to 120 on the highway here in the states. i was thinking about going a little faster since my cars top speed on paper is 134 miles an hour. but i was running low on gas. this probably saved my life since about a day later i found out that my tires arent rated to go above 120....
Top speed 113 stock ford 500 pushing 5500 rpm and i decided to back off XD I need my engine
Daniel Diaz lier
Coward
3:16 It's Unbelievable Look How Fast Everything's Going Fast
going past*
This is one of the greatest videos in the history of the automobile. Legendary.
This car is not just a car it is an engineering masterpiece.
I feel like a badass when I send my station wagon up to 60 mph
lol
+Kyle Tidrick Thats 100kms in metric.........*LOL* badass.......
+Kyle Tidrick what's a station wagon?
tot tota I know...and thanks for showing your TRUE COLORS with that comment.
The "station wagon" is an American way of saying....the English way of saying "estate wagon"....
Helicopter: No cars can beat my speed record.
Buggati: hold my beer
Every country needs a 5 mile straight to 'safely max out' your cars top speed! 😁👌
I think there are segments of the Autobahn that could be converted to a plane landing strip, and considering it doesn't have a speed limit, you could max it out there.
I got my 1985 Cutlass Ciera to 132 kph....
once...
+Crazy Buttboarding Guy you should do a video
i got my corolla up to 160kmph. once
+Saif AlBarwani na, it just made a weird sound, other than that, it surprisingly didnt shake at all
I once got my Proton Gen 2 to 140 kph....
until the traffic comes up.
And then it exploded.
Some say he's no longer captain slow
rp some say..
Or "Mr. Slowly," as the Italians call him
And no longer gets lost in an oval.
Ты живой ?😁
4:06 One of the greatest moment in automotive history
Captain slow come and save us from the chiron video 😩😩😩
who's here after watching James May say how easy the Veyron is?
Dave Howard yeah I forgot about Top Gear after being in Grand Tour zone
From drivetribe?
How convenient of yt to recommend me this vid after watching that vid.
me
Yip
"Damn Him" is my reaction to when someone does better than me.
0:06, Fever Ray- 'If I Had A Heart' . Two years before Vikings !!! Bazinga!!!
I can't believe that Bugatti gave Captain Slow the rarest Veyron that they had which only had five of the Black & Orange ones in existance!
They didn’t give it to him they just let him drive it
1:15 How dare you use stock sounds top gear?
I know that sound from HL2! You've lied to us all!
Appearantly a key turning inside of an ignition is the same as loading a shell into a spas-12.
+Big Macintosh. Hahaha, gem of a comment
"I added my own congratulations afterwards." "...Damn him!"
That's funny. XD
Brings me back to my childhood. Coming to school on the Monday morning & talking with your friends about it!
And he is supposed to be 'Captain Slow'.
You thont ifen no hesh 1 awh the fastest cars in the world
Or "Mr. Slowly," as the Italians call him.
@@acetrainerarjun821 "Capitán pisa-huevos" in spanish. Wich means step balls captain
you got´to really think about that for a second. in the 1920 the Speed RECORD was about (if i remember correctly) 200 kph. in something undrivable. 400 kph was reached much later in something you wouldnt even get inside nowadays. seriously at some Point they said its a 50/50 Chance if its gonna explode or not. and now? look at this beautiful Piece of Engineering reaching 350+ i a wink and 414 in not much of a struggle...
James May really going down in history as one of very few people to have driven a Bugatti at top speed. Twice.
Top Notch production quality, specially for 14+ years ago.
Damn Top Gear will probably remain one of the best if not THE best auto show ever made.
15 years old and this car is still absolutely insane.
The pinnacle of the internal combustion engine it was never going to get better than this I mean the chiron is nice but I think the veyron put bugatti on the map
0:35 its going so fast the camera didnt even catch it
Fun fact: He yells 417 at 4 minutes and 17 seconds into the vid.
Top Gear will never be the same...what a show!!
1:17 hey wait, that's the sound effect for reloading the shotgun in Half-Life², I know because that gun in that game is why I'm a gun enthusiast and used to listen to the reload non-stop.
At some point in time captain slow was the fastest man on earth. Thank you for putting your life on the line for us James May ❤
Imagine if they let James drive the ssc when it hit 331 mph
The record that ssc set was fake (There was an error in their system) and plus Bugatti has now made the Bugatti Bolide wich can go 312 mph...
@@flables2308 Really??????
@@zackaryhorne3289 yes
@@zackaryhorne3289 yeah the man is correct. SSC was faked. They eventually even admitted it themselves after enough professionals called them out on it.
It's boring to see ssc fans face now because it was fake speed and not because of an error but because they want to claim the title from bugatti. Sadly no one can
Iam watching this in 2024 and I still cant believe that he went that fast!! Richard or Jeremy wouldn't be a suprise but out of all people it had to be James!!
I give James credit. It takes some balls driving that fast, no matter how advanced the car is.
Back to the Future, with James May
he checked the mirror.... doing 350km/h what did he expected to see there??? the Stig???
He probably wanted to see what it looked like at 350km/h, wouldn't you?
hahaha
back when bugatti was popular and id always watch top gear on dave. sick times
Yo at 3:58 I literally just blink and I didn’t see the car pass by 😂
5:51 'That's staggering'
Bugatti, 9 years later: How about 304mph?
ya know that bugatti only called it the 300mph challenge cos they couldnt reach their original goal of 500kph
@@geordiebbq8024 they could but they ran out of track
5:45 always the same recorded "whoaaa", It's like the Wilhelm scream! XD
I got my VW polo up to the blistering speed of 105mph last night, i can't imagine what it feels like to go 240+ mph
I'm going to miss these guys
even a decade later, the veyron is still one of the coolest cars in the world
Soon 2020 and im still watching old top gear... Old but Gold
2024 anyone?
Yessir
Of course
Yeah buddy
Szzz
Still here
epic..love this, and james just made it so much better...along with this SS VEYRON.
Now remember this: That is the speed of the winds inside an EF5 tornado...
I am not a biggest fan of big and heavy cars, even when they have crap ton of power, but Veyron and Chiron are exception, those cars combine such a brutal top speed with incredible luxury and extremely clever engineering.
Bugatti Veyron 2015
Bugatti chiron 2017
Bugatti divo 2019
And yet the Veyron is the fastest
What? The veyron SS is meant to be 2011...
@@oliverchilds9453 The Chiron is theoretically faster, they limited the top speed. It should go 280+.
Veyron is from 2005 or 2006 i think
@@Ben-cx5qp it can go faster then 280 but they limited those babies 4 safety