Bugatti Veyron: Top speed tested on Volkswagen's super secret test track

We found some information how the Bugatti Veyron was tested for top speed on Volkswagen's super secret test track in Ehra-Lessien. You can see the track in Google Earth!

The BBC’s Top Gear program recently took the Bugatti Veyron for a quick test drive — a very quick test drive1. James May was asked to test the car’s top speed, and there was apparently only one place in the world it could be done — Volkswagen’s super-secret test facility in Germany, Ehra-Lessien.

Why? Because Ehra-Lessien has an unbroken straight 9 kilometres in length, which you can see running along the top of our thumbnails. It’s so long, that if you stood on one side of the straight, you wouldn’t be able to see the other end due to the curvature of the Earth.

Related news: GermanCarBlog, P4MR, Bugatti Veyron

Source: Google Earth Sightseeing

Watch more TV. The German Car TV.

Read more