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

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.

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

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.

The Bugatti Mistral has made history, becoming the world's fastest roofless car by reaching an extraordinary top speed of 282 mph. The record-breaking run took place on November 9 at Germany’s ATP Automotive Testing Facility in Papenburg,

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 has finally dethroned the previous record speed for an open-top car set by Hennessey's Venom GT Spyder in 2016.

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.

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,