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Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse world speed record: Video

We hoped that tease might be for something really interesting and new – perhaps the much rumoured 1600bhp Veyron or even the Galibier –  but it was simply a new world record for an open-topped production car. Impressive, of course, but just more of what we expect from Bugatti, rather than something new and innovative. The new world record for the Vitesse was set at the VW facility at Ehra-Lessien where Chinese driver Anthony Liu took the Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse to 254mph, creating a new world record for an open-topped production car and, more importantly for Bugatti, an excuse to produce a limited run of the Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse WRC Edition with a black and orange paint job for €1.99 million each.

Interior Motives Design Awards 2004 announces judging panel

Interior Motives magazine has announced its judging panel for the 2004 Interior Motives Design Awards. This year's judges include some of the world's most respected senior automotive designers and design managers from carmakers and interior suppliers. The judges are: - Olivier Boulay, Senior Executive Officer & Corporate General Manager, Product Design Office, Mitsubishi Motors Corp - Guy Burgoyne, Studio Chief Designer, Product Design, Volvo Cars - Simon Cox, Design Director, GM Advanced Design - UK - Bill Fluharty, Vice-President Industrial Design - North America, Johnson Controls Inc - Steve Lewis, Design Manager, Seat Cars - Justyn Norek, Design Manager, I.D.E.A Institute - Sarah Maynard, Interior Designer, Aston Martin - Roberto Piatti, Managing Director, Stile Bertone - Marek Reichman, Director Interior Strategy Product and Design Process, Ford Motor Company - Rus Shafer, Director, Industrial Design, Intier Automotive - Andreas Wlasak, Director of Industrial Design - Interior Systems, Faurecia This year's awards - which will take place during the Paris Motor Show on 24 September 2004 - have attracted almost 200 registrations from students of transportation and industrial design from 20 countries.

Games Galore: Video games are the one growth industry in the car business

If the movie industry was the entertainment king of the 20th century, the video-gaming industry is where disposable income is headed for the 21st century. Nowhere was this more apparent than the Electronic Entertainment Expo--E3 for short--going on right now in Los Angeles. True, the vast majority of the games at E3 involved vixens and/or steroid-shot musclemen shooting and/or chainsawing bad guys and/or zombies.