Can’t believe this car is 15 years old makes me feel old

My favorite line ever: 'Godspeed, captain slow!'

I love how Richard and Jeremy always freak out when a car is going real fast but James isn't even screaming

Well, realistically, James is probably one of the few who will ever take that car to that speed

this is topgear at its best

5:36 - What was his average? - 431km/h. Silence. - In miles? - 267. Wooooooooooooooooooooow.

The true hero here is the tires. Congrats to the manufacturer. People dont realize how difficult it is to create tires that wont shred at such speeds. Let's get real. The tires are very very important, most would say the most important study in this video was the tires. The veyron is just a tool used to show off the capabilities of the tires. Tires.

I drove the Agera RS and got it to 285mph.... Then I turned off my Xbox cuz I had to go to sleep.

Anyone noticed that captain slow at 4:24 when slowing down (still driving 300+) looking in the backview mirror for .... for what actually? a bloody tailgating van?

"Godspeed, Captain Slow"

Today new top gear released chiron sport run and they got to 423 but it was so boring.......

I am seriously impressed by Captain Slow, he was so normal and relaxed even at that speed. This guy is special!

Captain slow went over 400 kph..... Let's just sink that in

At that speed when you slow down to 200 km/h you feel like you're stopped. You just want to open the door and walk out. lol

Did anyone else see top gears new video today? This is WAAAAY better

4:17 That flyby always gives me goosebumps

did he actually look at the camera for a micro second there, at 414kmh!

He wears a helmet because that will save your life when you crash at 420 km/h

The way this top speed run was done made it feel like James was pushing the known boundaries of what a car could do, and he was. Every minute of this film puts you on the edge of your seat, even if you’ve seen it a thousand times since it first aired. There’s a feel to it that new Top Gear simply cannot accomplish. Only they could make a 261mph Chiron run look boring

267 MPH, Two Hundred And Sixty Seven Miles an Hour. In a road car, Wow that’s astonishing. As James says its a Concord moment. Top Gear. Was the best motoring program on TV, still miss it to this day.

The bugatti creates around 5.9tonnes of drag at 430km/h at 1013hpa, a Boeing 777 creates 7.4 tonnes of drag at 800km/h ground speed at 307.4hpa, if the air density at 0m is same as 30,000 feet, the car is actually doing a 637.8km/h or 0.58mach. Despite how inefficient, how big the engine is, how much fuel it needed, it's still an awesome car. It still able to do a 1:16.8 at top gear track. It worth the price tag.

So... Bugatti won't give the Stig a Veyron, but he's allowed to have a Super-Sport???

Imagine this headline Captain Slow: The fastest man on earth.

This report says a lot about James May's driving skills, by the way. Even on a pro track and with the help of top class tires, a team of engineers and nothing left to chance, driving at that speed AND commenting it for your TV show is crazy. And he almost hit the top speed.

Sometimes I feel a bit rebellious and send my Toyota Camry up to 71mph on a highway

1:16 for Halo 1 shotgun shell sound.

Even after all these years, this vehicle still stands among the best of the best. The Bugatti Veyron SS is a LEGEND that never dies.

Who’s here after the Chiron finally broke 300+?

I got my Veyron up to 265 on a freeway then I woke up

5:25 I like James' congratulations.

As a former speed demon, every 10mph above 130 is a whole new game. Everything is different at those speeds. My maximum was almost 190mph and I promise you I never want to do it again! I remember because when I got off that bike I said out loud "I never want to do that again!" Going that fast completely cured me of my penchant for speed. It's strange...everything is happening so fast yet so slow at the same time. It's hard to describe. When I slowed to 70mph the reality of what I had just done for the last 25 miles set in and it scared the piss out of me. It was like I was a drug addict who finally realized that it was time to stop this behavior or I would hurt someone else or die. I'm very fortunate neither happened. I don't want to hurt anyone. I just had a speed problem. I am now fully cured.

2024 anyone?

And it continues. A keyword to consider - *stability*...even at those insane speeds. I am yet to hear of another machine that can emulate this even as it hits 431 kph (approx. 268 mph).

4:04 When you reach 420 km/h.

4:03 When the driver go over speed and suddenly he watch his way to straight heaven... RIP

3:16 It's Unbelievable Look How Fast Everything's Going Fast

so captain slow is actually fast huh

The bugatti veyron is my favorite car. I don't really care for the Hennessey venom gt. I also love some other super cars, like koenigsegg agera r, pagani zonda/huayra, lamborghini aventador, lamborghini veneno, mclaren p1, ferrari enzo, and much much more, but bugatti veyron will always be my favorite car. Even the badass futuristic looking lamborghini veneno is nothing compared to a bugatti in my opinion

I remember watching this when it first came out as a kid. There was something always special about the rare moments when james got to preview a hypercar, it was so peaceful & entertaining watching him hit high speeds but exhilarating at the same time.

431km/h is also the max speed of the Shanghai maglev. I've been on that and the thought of doing the same speed in a car is quite terrifying.

Its ironic at 4:17 the car is going 417 km...

Do I hear the Half Life 2 Shotgun reloading at 1:16?

4:06 One of the greatest moment in automotive history

The camera work, sounds and pictures of BBC Top Gear is still amazing. Kudos !!!

"Damn him!" So solid XD

Captain Slow at over 400 kilometers per hour xDD

back when bugatti was popular and id always watch top gear on dave. sick times

That's an absolutely amazing car, the regular Veyron and the Super Sport. Not to mention the Chiron. Bugatti 100% made one of the most iconic cars ever built. Will always be forever the king of the automotive world.

The most amazing thing to me is how stable it is at that speed. That is this car's top trump, not how fast it goes, but how easy it makes it look.

1:17 Half-Life 2 Shotgun shell sound

Nothing will ever beat the timeless beauty of Veyron. MAGNIFICENT

Fun fact: He yells 417 at 4 minutes and 17 seconds into the vid.

Even if there are (as of 2014) a few faster top-speed "production" cars (Hennessey Venom, probably the Koenigsegg One:1), when you consider the supercars the Veyron SS beat around the Top Gear test track, *and* the top speed of the car, and that it is still a very comfortable, luxurious GT car, the Veyron is still in a class all its own. Only 5 cars have gone faster around the Top Gear test track than the Bugatti Super Sport: the Pagani Huayra, BAC Mono, Ariel Atom 500 V8, McLaren MP4-12C, and Lamborghini Aventador -- much lighter cars all, with better power to weight ratios. To give perspective, the Veyron SS was almost *three seconds* faster than the agile Ferrari 458 Italia and the Porsche 997 GT2! I'm looking forward to seeing what the purportedly redesigned 2015/16 Veyron will be like -- even more horsepower than the SS? 1500 hp? Lighter? Even better aerodynamics? Whatever the case, it will still be in a class all its own. (Yes, I'm a Bugatti "fan" but I love all the great supercars -- love Lambos, and Ferraris, the mighty McLarens, the Porsche 918 Spyder, and am a huge fan of the cars of Christian Koenigsegg. His new One:1 is mind-blowing!) But the Bugatti SS deserves respect as one of the greatest achievements in automobile engineering.

i managed to get my car up to 120 on the highway here in the states. i was thinking about going a little faster since my cars top speed on paper is 134 miles an hour. but i was running low on gas. this probably saved my life since about a day later i found out that my tires arent rated to go above 120....

1:17 hey wait, that's the sound effect for reloading the shotgun in Half-Life², I know because that gun in that game is why I'm a gun enthusiast and used to listen to the reload non-stop.

The fact that it showed 417km/h at 4:17 is pure wizardy

he checked the mirror.... doing 350km/h what did he expected to see there??? the Stig???

Hard to believe James May was the fastest person in the world in a production car for a certain amount of time until the test driver beat him :D

0:06, Fever Ray- 'If I Had A Heart' . Two years before Vikings !!! Bazinga!!!

Top Gear will never be the same...what a show!!

Some say he's no longer captain slow

you got´to really think about that for a second. in the 1920 the Speed RECORD was about (if i remember correctly) 200 kph. in something undrivable. 400 kph was reached much later in something you wouldnt even get inside nowadays. seriously at some Point they said its a 50/50 Chance if its gonna explode or not. and now? look at this beautiful Piece of Engineering reaching 350+ i a wink and 414 in not much of a struggle...

“At it’s heart is the 13.5 mile long track which includes this 5.5 mile arrow straight . . . Straight” 😂

Captain slow come and save us from the chiron video 😩😩😩

I got my 1985 Cutlass Ciera to 132 kph.... once...

5:17 SMOKE WEED EVERYDAY

Imagine if they let James drive the ssc when it hit 331 mph

0:35 its going so fast the camera didnt even catch it

I had goosebumps watching this again, such a beast of a car

This piece is why I love TopGear. The music and everything, just gives me chills.

Top Notch production quality, specially for 14+ years ago. Damn Top Gear will probably remain one of the best if not THE best auto show ever made.

This is one of the greatest videos in the history of the automobile. Legendary.

"Damn Him" is my reaction to when someone does better than me.

I feel like a badass when I send my station wagon up to 60 mph

The first time I watched this on TV, I knew from the moment I saw that manic wheelspin off the line on the timed lap, that it was gonna top the leaderboard

Soon 2020 and im still watching old top gear... Old but Gold

5:45 always the same recorded "whoaaa", It's like the Wilhelm scream! XD

Every country needs a 5 mile straight to 'safely max out' your cars top speed! 😁👌

Brings me back to my childhood. Coming to school on the Monday morning & talking with your friends about it!

This car is not just a car it is an engineering masterpiece.

I can't believe that Bugatti gave Captain Slow the rarest Veyron that they had which only had five of the Black & Orange ones in existance!

intro song/background music being played at the beginning from 00:00 to 00:16 is "fever ray - if i had a heart" for anyone wondering

James May really going down in history as one of very few people to have driven a Bugatti at top speed. Twice.

notice how james hit the 417 km/h mark at exactly 4:17 into the video

I'd love to see an unedited video from the driver's point of view. What does travelling at 431 km/h look like for a driver?!

The way in which James and the test driver were holding the steering with one hand shows the level of engineering Bugatti has. Incredible... Wow.

1:05 OceanGate didnt know 💀

Helicopter: No cars can beat my speed record. Buggati: hold my beer

I got my VW polo up to the blistering speed of 105mph last night, i can't imagine what it feels like to go 240+ mph

I'm going to miss these guys

i like how the veyron is like a boss lvl in the car scene once you beat that you got another set of challengers

at 6:04 It reminds me The Stig got pulled over by rozzer of the Scottish

"I added my own congratulations afterwards." "...Damn him!" That's funny. XD

who's here after watching James May say how easy the Veyron is?

15 years old and this car is still absolutely insane.

5:51 'That's staggering' Bugatti, 9 years later: How about 304mph?

Back to the Future, with James May

1:15 How dare you use stock sounds top gear? I know that sound from HL2! You've lied to us all! Appearantly a key turning inside of an ignition is the same as loading a shell into a spas-12.

At some point in time captain slow was the fastest man on earth. Thank you for putting your life on the line for us James May ❤

Old vid but still thrilling to watch 😃 Anyone still questioning who is able to build the best car's?