Extreme performance: 8 production car records that fell in 2019

The extreme performance car business is a brutal one. Whatever ludicrous benchmark you manage to set simply becomes a target for the lunatic engineers working for your competitors. When the Bugatti Veyron, the world’s first true hypercar, debuted in 2005, its 1,000-horsepower motor and 431-km/h (268 mph) top speed were unthinkable extravagances in a road car, figures so extreme and extraordinary that they looked unassailable.

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