James May (Captain Slow) Takes the Bugatti Veyron to 259.11 MPH!
When Bugatti announced it had broken the production car land speed record with a 267mph run in Germany a couple of weekends back, Top Gear hinted – oh so very subtly – that TopGear might have been in some way involved.
And in the August issue of TopGear magazine, in the shops today, the full story is revealed.
Here is the video of his prior run. Captain Slow is given the task of driving the Bugatti at it's top speed - 253 miles per hour. Can the slowest driver in Britain do it? Click beneath the video to view in high quality, and visit for all the lastest news and car reviews.
Source: James May (Captain Slow) Takes the Bugatti Veyron to 259.11 MPH!
And in the August issue of TopGear magazine, in the shops today, the full story is revealed.
Here is the video of his prior run. Captain Slow is given the task of driving the Bugatti at it's top speed - 253 miles per hour. Can the slowest driver in Britain do it? Click beneath the video to view in high quality, and visit for all the lastest news and car reviews.
Source: James May (Captain Slow) Takes the Bugatti Veyron to 259.11 MPH!
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