Bugatti's Mistral roadster combines powerful performance and design to achieve a new open-top speed world record. The supercar was driven by Andy Wallace, a race car driver with a history of setting speed records.

The Bugatti Mistral now holds the top speed world record for an open top car after having reached a whopping 453.91km/h.

In case you’re keeping score, the Mistral wrenches the open-top record from the Hennessey Venom GT Spyder, which clocked 427.44kph way back in 2016...which wrenched it from the 1,183hp Veyron Vitesse, which recorded a 254mph run before that.

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

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,

The Bugatti Mistral has finally dethroned the previous record speed for an open-top car set by Hennessey's Venom GT Spyder in 2016.

If you thought the Bugatti Mistralwasn't capable of dethroning the current open-top world record holder, you might want to think again.

T he Bugatti W16 Mistral has officially achieved its goal of becoming the fastest open-top car in the world, setting a new top-speed world record for an open-top car of 282.04 mph