The Bugatti W16 Mistral has set a new top-speed world record for an open-top car, reaching a speed of 453.91 km/h at the ATP Automotive Testing track in Papenburg, Germany. The landmark achievement follows several other world-record runs in the past 14 years.

Bugatti's Mistral roadster combines powerful performance and design to achieve a new open-top speed world record. The supercar was driven by Andy Wallace, a race car driver with a history of setting speed records.

Bugatti Mistral sets a new open-top road car speed record of 453.9 km/h (282.04 mph) at Papenburg, driven by Le Mans winner Andy Wallace.

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

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 latest feat on the list: another top speed run, this time set by the open-top Mistral clad in the brand's traditional record-setting livery of orange and black. That Mistral is now the fastest open-top car ever,

T he Bugatti W16 Mistral has officially achieved its goal of becoming the fastest open-top car in the world, setting a new top-speed world record for an open-top car of 282.04 mph

Earlier this summer, Mate Rimac told The Drive that Bugatti would start chasing speed records again. At the time, it was easy to file the comment under “Things Automaker Executives Say.” But now I realize that he wasn’t just blowing some up our butts,