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.

Bugatti proved it still has an insatiable need for speed when the W16 Mistral became the world’s fastest open-top car earlier this month. Not content with the latest feather in its cap, Bugatti CEO Mate Rimac has already set his sights on even loftier goals,

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.

In two decades of Bugatti's W16 engine, the marque has produced the Veyron, Chiron, Divo, Centodieci, Mistral and Bolide. Here they are, in order of top speed.

The special W16 Mistral joined the rest of Bugatti's World Record Cars in a unique private collection in India

Bugatti's Mistral roadster combines powerful performance and design to achieve a new open-top speed world record.