Installed in a customer’s Mistral, the marvelous engine helped the roofless Chiron become the fastest open-top production car in history. Bugatti also misspoke about the Mistral’s top speed.

During an organised record attempt at the Papenburg test track in Germany, the Bugatti W16 Mistral reached a maximum speed of 453.91kph. That translates into an astonishing 282mph, making the W16 ...

Few cars portray a leap of faith in engineering such as did the Bugatti Veyron. Born in an era of engineering provenance driven by the late VW CEO Ferdinand Piëch, the rebirth of Bugatti was the ...