The record was held until September 2005 when the long awaited Bugatti Veyron broke the record again at, proven by Car and Driver and BBC Top Gear.

* Top Gear-Award 2010-The Agera becomes BBCs Top Gear Hypercar of the Year, beating cars such as the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport ( It's spelled Koenigsiginssegiesgsegg on the lap time board due to confusion and the company being in its early stages )

With its improvement in traction, particularly in adverse weather conditions, four-wheel drive is no longer uncommon in high-powered sports cars, e. g. Porsche, Lamborghini, and the Bugatti Veyron.

For the Bugatti Veyron, which has a 16-cylinder W engine configuration, all the four camshafts are driving a total of 64 valves.

W16 engine | W16 petrol engine of the Bugatti Veyron

This time beat the € 1, 100, 000 (£ 899, 000 /$ 1, 550, 000 ), 1001 hp Bugatti Veyron.

Needell says his highlight to date is " accidentally, ahem, ignoring the strict instructions Ferrari issued about not touching the traction control on their half million pound Enzo ..." He has also done this on Fifth Gear while reviewing the Bugatti Veyron as well as the Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren, joking that his finger slipped after showing viewers the letter from Mercedes-Benz requesting he leave the traction control on.

Compare with the Ferrari Enzo at 434 hp / ton ( 314 kW / tonne ) ( 4. 6 lb / hp ), the Bugatti Veyron at 530. 2 hp / ton ( 395 kW / tonne ) ( 4. 1 lb / hp ), and the SSC Ultimate Aero TT with 904 hp / ton ( 674 kW / tonne ) ( 2. 2 lb / hp ).

The overall drag coefficient on the standard McLaren F1 is 0. 32, compared with 0. 36 for the faster Bugatti Veyron, and 0. 357 for the SSC Ultimate Aero TT, which was the fastest production car from 2007 to 2010.

The F1 remains as of 2011 one of the fastest production cars ever made ; as of July 2010 it is succeeded by very few cars including the Koenigsegg CCR, the Bugatti Veyron, the SSC Ultimate Aero TT, and the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport.

A W16 engine from the Bugatti Veyron

A quad-turbocharged version of this engine went into production in 2005 powering the Bugatti Veyron EB16. 4.

In 2006, the Volkswagen Group-owned Bugatti produced the Bugatti Veyron EB16. 4 ; with an 8. 0 litre W16 engine.

Finished Symphony was used when Jeremy Clarkson, in a Bugatti Veyron, raced James May and Richard Hammond, in a light aircraft, across Europe ( Series 7, Episode 5 ), whilst " Formula Of Fear " was featured in Series 14, in the Maserati / Porsche / Aston Martin segment.

For his 38th birthday, it was reported that Anzhi Makhachkala owner, Suleyman Kerimov, bought him a Bugatti Veyron.

He owns a 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO, two Ferrari 250 Testa Rossas, three 1996 McLaren F1s ( one of them an ultra-rare F1 LM ), a Mercedes 300SL Gullwing, a 1929 Blower Bentley, one Bugatti Type 57SC Atlantic, a Porsche 997 GT3 RS, a Bugatti Veyron, a 1930 Mercedes-Benz CountTrossi SSK ( aka " The Black Prince ") a 1938 Alfa Romeo 8C 2900B Mille Miglia., a Lamborghini Reventón and the rare Reventón Roadster.

His wife is driving among others a Bugatti Veyron, which was bought from the " stolen " money.

It briefly held the world speed record for a production car and is currently the fourth fastest production car in the world, behind the Bugatti Veyron, SSC Ultimate Aero and the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport.

* October 16 – Rembrandt Bugatti, Italian sculptor ( d. 1916 )

It beat the Bugatti EB 16. 4 Veyron and the Pagani Zonda Roadster F in lap times around the Top Gear test track.

This has been bettered by the Bugatti Veyron 16. 4, and the SSC Ultimate Aero TT.

The Volkswagen Group W16 engine as configured for the Bugatti Veyron EB16. 4 is a 16 cylinder quad-turbocharged engine with four valves per cylinder.

A modern, quad-turbocharged W16 engine was used in the EB 16 / 4 Veyron built by the new Volkswagen-owned Bugatti in the 2000s.

Rembrandt Bugatti ( 16 October 1884 – 8 January 1916 ) was an Italian sculptor, known primarily for his bronze sculptures of wildlife subjects.

The Arosa was designed by the same man who designed the Bugatti Veyron 16. 4, Jozef Kabaň.

In 2008 he owned one of the 30 models of the Bugatti Veyron 16. 4 sports car ( estimated at 1, 100, 000 euros ) and a Maserati MC 12 at 700, 000 euros.

The Zonda Roadster F Clubsport was tested by Top Gear's The Stig and James May and achieved a lap time around their test track of 1: 17. 8, beating the Bugatti Veyron 16. 4 tested during the same episode, but lost in a quarter mile drag race against the Veyron by nearly 2. 5 seconds.

* Bugatti Veyron EB 16. 4 ( developed by Ricardo rather than Borg Warner )

it: Bugatti Tipo 16 e Tipo 18

Bugatti presented several concept cars between 1998 and 2000 before commencing development of its first production model, the Veyron 16. 4.

Bugatti Veyron | Veyron 16. 4 Grand Sport

In late 2001, Bugatti announced that the car, officially called the " Bugatti Veyron 16. 4 ", would go into production in 2003.

At Volkswagen, he directed Bugatti Automobiles SAS to reengineer the Bugatti Veyron 16. 4, delaying an expected launch.

The club also ran a one-off event at Joel Park, Northwood Hill, Middlesex, on June 22, 1935, which was won by Richard Shuttleworth, on a Bugatti, in a time of 30. 16 sec.

There were some sweet machines other than women: an old Bugatti, a lean Farina coachwork on an American chassis, a Swallow, a type A40-AjK Mercedes and lots more.

The first race in 1929, was organised by Anthony Noghès under the auspices of the " Automobile Club de Monaco ", and was won by William Grover-Williams driving a Bugatti.

The leading Maserati and Alfa Romeo drivers decided not to compete but Bugatti was well represented.

However, Chiron did compete the following year, when he was beaten by René Dreyfus and his Bugatti and finished second, and took victory in the 1931 race driving a Bugatti.

* 1909 – Jean Bugatti, German-born automobile designer ( d. 1939 )

The smaller is the Bugatti Circuit ( named after Ettore Bugatti, founder of the car company bearing his name ), a relatively short permanent circuit which is used for racing throughout the year.

The fastest time ever around the full Gesamtstrecke was by Louis Chiron, at an average speed of 112. 31 km / h ( 72 mph ) in his Bugatti.

* 1884 – Rembrandt Bugatti, Italian sculptor ( d. 1916 )

* 1881 – Ettore Bugatti, Italian-French businessman, founded Bugatti ( d. 1947 )

* August 11 – Jean Bugatti, German automobile designer ( b. 1909 )

* January 8 – Rembrandt Bugatti, Italian sculptor ( b. 1884 )

* September 15 – Ettore Bugatti, Italian Car Designer, Founder of Bugatti Automobiles ( d. 1947 )

At the start of 1934, Nuvolari entered the Monaco Grand Prix in a privately owned Bugatti.

In 1991 the company helped construct the revolutionary chassis of the Bugatti EB110 Supercar.

Cars such as the Bugatti Type 35 were almost equally at home in Grands Prix and endurance events, but specialisation gradually started to differentiate the sports-racer from the Grand Prix car.

A more famous name, Ettore Bugatti, designed the new four-cylinder Bébé of 1912.