SSC Ultimate Aero II aiming for 275mph world record top speed

Wasn't that very obvious in the first place? Even a five year old can figure out the fact that a garage company can barely compete with one of the world's finest and most traditional automotive marques. There's no need to rub it all over their faces like so many people here seem to enjoy doing. SSC well knows what they're aiming for and so far they've delivered on that front. So, as you say, props to them. And I mean it.

wait, using 4 turbos and a massive 16cylinder 8liter engine to produce 1200hp is considered fine engineering? people blame the weight on the veyron do to the "luxury" interior, but have you ever seen it? It's quite plain, expensive yes, but very lacking in amenities that would actually add weight. The veyron is simply fat because they put an excessively large engine into it. Imo, the veyron is NOT fine engineering. As to tradition... VW bought Buggatti, destroyed the company and threw together a new one years later, their is no tradition beyond the name.

@ Joe Limon : the weight isn't raised so much by the interior features. The body of the Veyron with all of it's components add to that weight. But instead, like Clarkson would say, you don't have the feeling that everything is falling apart when you're doing +400kmh. If you close your eyes at that speed it would feel like standing still. :)) And also the car meets some standards of safety, and the engine will not catch fire after 1000 km...things like that. That's what makes the Veyron so special. And the engine is that big because it's old. And to develop a new engine for the SuperSport would have been too expensive. I bet that with today's VAG technology they could make a smaller, lighter, more fuel efficient and more powerfull engine than the one on the SSC Ultimate Aero 2. :P

how exactly is the Veyron engine older then the Ultimate aero's engine? The ultimate Aero started with the small block chevy engine, modified the block and all of the components, so in a way... the Aero has the "older" engine. And I like how you can make claims over reliability and ride over vehicles you probably never even seen before, let alone driven, or for that matter driven at those limits. Oh but do go on, live in your pink sunglasses world. It's made by vw! it has to be off the hook! (/sarcasm)