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Bugatti have been stripped of the World's fastest Production car title after Guinness World Records voided the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport after it had been revealed that the speed limiter had been deactivated during the very top speed runs. Under rules of the Guinness World records, for a vehicle to be able to hold the fastest production car on Earth accolade, it has to achieve the high speed in exactly the same specification that customers would receive.
The Bugatti Veyron Super Sport 1,200 horsepower, 8.0 litre, quad-turbocharged W16 engine model took the crown of World's fastest Production car in 2010 after recording average speeds of 267.8 miles per hour at Volkswagen's high speed test track Ehra-Lessien.
The standard road car however is fitted with an electronic speed limiter, which actually caps the maximum speed at 258 miles per hour, this is to protect the tyres of the vehicle from wearing away. Therefore due to recent questions regarding this and the Unlimited Hennessey Venom GT's 265.7 miles per hour run, has seen Guinness World Record officialls revoking the Bugatti Veyron's status.
The Bugatti Veyron Super Sport model displaced the World's fastest car, with a 256.18 miles per hour record, the SSC Ultimate Aero TT, which had achieved the record in two runs in opposite directions, which are the World Record required rules. Though now the Bugatti has been knocked off the top spot of the fastest production cars, this does not mean that the Ultimate Aero TT model automatically goes back to it's original title either.
At this moment, according to the Guinness World Records, there actually isn't a fastest production car in the World. So it is expected that there will be a sudden flurry of super tuners and hypercar manufacturers as a result of this, especially Hennessy, who's Venom GT has only achieved the 265 miles per hour run in one direction so far.
Bugatti is disputing the Guinness World Record decision, saying that the limeter is only there for safety reasons and the team had known at the time that the electronic restriction for the car had been disabled.