Fastest production car in the world.

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Oh, I agree on the weight. I've got a excel table at home that lists how much HP I'll need to hit a specific speed for my TransAm. The table calculates to about 300mph even though I doubt my car is going to crack 180 if ever, let alone be able to even attempt 180mph. Course the table only calculates how much power is needed to push said shape through the air, and doesn't calculate rolling resistance, mass, or much else so its only mildly accurate.

But my problem is with how bulbous it is. If it were a better shape, it would be much faster. The veyron started out as a concept car with little real though given to aerodynamics. It was built to look "sleek" but no real work was done in that area. Then when Bugatti later announced that it would build said car, and it would do 250mph they had the fun task of making said concept car actually go that fast which is why the veyron needs all 1,000hp it has and not less like the S7 which has 750 and passes 250mph without any active aerodynamic devices.

So Gordon Murray, and Steve Saleen had a vision in their head of a car that could do these things and proceeded with the thought that Form follows function. Where as the veyron is built the other way around.

For me, the lighter I can make a car the better. Weight is free downforce, but its also every race cars enemy. So the Veyron is fine where it is, but if someone tries to tell me its a race car I'll laugh in their faces. Its fast, but only in a straight line. This is the car that crashed at Laguna Seca with a professional driver on its exhibition day showing off its amazing handling.

Bugatti could have done much better had they consulted the engineers before they finalized the shell of the car.