{"id":78017,"date":"2013-04-13T18:11:11","date_gmt":"2013-04-14T01:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=78017"},"modified":"2013-04-13T18:11:11","modified_gmt":"2013-04-14T01:11:11","slug":"sports-car-video-210-mph-in-a-bugatti-for-a-long-long-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=78017","title":{"rendered":"Sports Car Video &#8211; 210 MPH in a Bugatti, for a Long, Long Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">SOON AFTER CO-PILOT Pierre-Henri Raphanel waved his hand signaling me to level off, no more speed, we were comfortably cruising between 210 and 212 miles per hour. It was a cold, bright afternoon and, like many convertible drivers in sun-starved Germany last week, we had the top down. The surrounding forest blew past in a tumult, and ahead, as far as I could see, was flat, perfect asphalt, about 60 feet wide, the 5-mile schnellstrasse of Volkswagen&#8217;s VOW3.XE -3.30%Ehra-Lessien test track.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport Vitesse\u00e2\u20ac\u201dhow&#8217;s that for a name?\u00e2\u20ac\u201dbarely trembled, the suede-wrapped steering wheel as still as an anvil. Mr. Raphanel and I engaged our seat heaters, got comfortable and took a look around\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424127887324050304578412810487535682.html?mod=wsj_valetbottom_email\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"512\" height=\"288\" src=\"http:\/\/live.wsj.com\/public\/page\/embed-1089D37C_398E_49F8_9C32_02CC2214185A.html\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SOON AFTER CO-PILOT Pierre-Henri Raphanel waved his hand signaling me to level off, no more speed, we were comfortably cruising between 210 and 212 miles per hour. It was a cold, bright afternoon and, like many convertible drivers in sun-starved Germany last week, we had the top down. The surrounding forest blew past in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-sports-car"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78017"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78021,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78017\/revisions\/78021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}