The Bugatti Mistral has claimed the title of the world's fastest car without a roof, posting with an absurd top speed

The Bugatti W16 has shattered the world record for fastest speed in an open-top road car, clocking a staggering 282 mph. Read more!

Andy Wallace unleashed the bespoke Bugatti W16 Mistral at Papenburg in Germany, clocking a little over 282 mph and setting a new top speed record for drop-tops

The Bugatti Mistral, powered by the iconic 8.0-litre quad-turbocharged W16 engine with 1,578 hp, has achieved a record-breaking top speed of 454 km/h for

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.

A Mistral in one-off ‘World Record Edition’ spec has just clocked an independently verified top speed of 453.9kph at the Papenburg test track in northern Germany. Prefer old-school units? That’s 282.04mph. With no roof.

A swansong for Bugatti’s W16, the Mistral has now joined the Veyron and Chiron with a record-breaking top speed of its own

Bugatti can add another top-speed record to its list of accomplishments. The French marque announced Thursday that the Mistral had achieved its goal of becoming the world’s fastest open-top road car.

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

Basically a Chiron with the roof chopped off, the 1578-hp Mistral made good on Bugatti's promise that it'd be the fastest roadster in the world.

The W16-powered Bugatti Mistral has set a new record for top speed for open-top production cars, reaching 282 miles per hour in testing.