Bugatti has once again demonstrated its engineering dominance by shattering the open-top speed record. At a test track in Germany, the W16 Mistral, a breathtakingly powerful hypercar, achieved an incredible one-way speed of 453.

When Bugatti set its last record, it did so at the Ehra-Lessien Proving Grounds, owned by the Volkswagen Group. The high-speed circuit there has a 5.6-mile-long straightaway with banked corners allowing high speeds leading up to the straight. James May used this track when he hit 253 mph in a Veyron back in 2007.

It marks a return for the French hypercar marque in the hunt for land speed records, a practice that was abandoned under former chief Stephan Winkelmann, after a Chiron Super Sport 300+ reached 304.773 mph in 2019, making it the first production car to go past the 300-mph mark.

Mate Rimac hinted at a new record-breaking attempt, suggesting that the advancements in tire technology could make it possible