The Bugatti Veyron is a mid-engined sports car, which designed and developed by the Volkswagen Group and manufactured in Molsheim, France by Bugatti Automobiles S.A.S.
The original model has a top speed of 408.47 km/h (253.81 mph). The latest version is the Super Sport version that has been proven the fastest street-legal production car in the world, with a top speed of 431.072 km/h (267.856 mph). From 2000-2009 it was named Car of the Decade by the BBC television programme Top Gear. In particular, The standard Bugatti Veyron won Top Gear's Best Car Driven All Year award in 2005.
On 6 April 2013, Bugatti set the record for having the highest top speed of any roadster in the world with the Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse, reaching on average a top speed of 408.84 km/h (254.04 mph).
The Veyron's chief designer was Hartmut Warkuss, and the exterior was designed by Jozef Kabaň of Volkswagen, with much of the engineering work being conducted under the guidance of engineering chief Wolfgang Schreiber.
A number of special variants have been produced. In December 2010, Bugatti began offering prospective buyers the ability to customize exterior and interiors colours by using the Veyron 16.4 Configurator application on the marque's official website. The standard price of Bugatti Veyron is 1.4 million Euro excluding delivery and taxes.
(Wikepidia, 2014, "Bugatti Veyron", <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugatti_Veyron> )
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