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.

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

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,

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.

Bugatti Mistral claims land speed record for a production open-top car Record car is a one-off example costing $14.7 million Mistral production capped at 99 units Bugatti's Mistral roadster has been taken to a top speed of 282 mph, and in the process has ...

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

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

Behind the wheel of the record-breaking Mistral was none other than Bugatti test driver Andy Wallace. The Le Mans winner also drove the Chiron Super Sport 300+ to a closed-car top