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The Bugatti Veyron Super Sport has once again put the Volkswagen Group's French marque back at the top of the fastest production car charts with its recent 268-mph record, but within days Shelby Supercars (SSC) announced it would be once again gunning to top Bugatti. We already know that SSC's new model will be revealed this month, and now an image of what could possibly the world's next fastest production car has been leaked.

SSC was quietly building some of the most extreme vehicles on earth until it leapt onto the global stage by topping the original Bugatti Veyron's record-setting top-speed with a scorching 255.83-mph run, 3.11 mph faster than the Veyron, in its first generation Ultimate Aero pictured in the gallery below. That record stood for nearly two years until the Veyron Super Sport smashed it with a 268-mph averaged run last month.

But SSC won't be content to let that stand, and the second-gen Ultimate Aero, rumored to be unveiled at Boeing's Museum of Flight later this month, will be the car that will attempt to reclaim the record. This time around, the car gets its curves from famed designer Jason Castriota, the architect of the Maserati Birdcage and Gran Turismo as well as the more recent Bertone Mantide. 

No specs or figures on the new car are out yet, and the unveiling will only reveal the "full-scale design model," but we expect the car to be packing significantly more than the 1,183 horsepower of the previous record-holding Ultimate Aero TT, along with some much-improved aerodynamics. At least, that's what it's going to take to top the Veyron Super Sport's 1,200 horsepower and NACA-ducted package.

The leaked shot reveals a much more aerodynamic design than the first generation Ultimate Aero, as well as clear influences from the Mantide.

The only official word is that the new car will be “upping the ante on all fronts.”

Stay tuned for an update.

[Jalopnik]


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  1. fb_100000275684479 avatar Michael Escobar Posted: 7/24/2010 1:07am PDT

    The current car isn't a looker, but I hope Castriota doesn't pen anything like the horrid Mantide. So now we're talking about 270mph road cars. I never really thought anyone would top McLaren's 240mph. SSC should just set the goal at 300mph and be done with it. The Bug will always have more class and provenance, but 300mph would be an enormous publicity coup. Given the choice, I'd still take a Mac F1 over any of them.
     
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  2. By Jon Rossi Posted: 8/18/2010 5:24am PDT

    My question is will the SSC do all this while providing stereo and AC while at 250+ MPH. The neat thing about the Veyron is that it doesn't seem to sacrifice comforts for the sake of performance.
     
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  3. fb_100000079225802 avatar Samuel Choi Posted: 9/6/2010 6:41pm PDT

    @ Michael: like making a car that is already superfast faster is easy.
     
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  4. joebaroch avatar joebaroch Posted: 9/6/2010 10:40pm PDT

    what a car and I just thinking the same in my dream and I like that car a lot.. Everything is just perfect..
     
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  5. By Craig Posted: 9/7/2010 12:50am PDT

    "Volkswagen Group's French marque back at the top of the fastest production car charts" Err VW is German.....
     
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  6. By hasse_04 Posted: 9/7/2010 1:53am PDT

    VW is german. But Bugatti is french
     
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  7. By UltraMagnus0001 Posted: 9/7/2010 6:50am PDT

    Bugatti is a VW with a few VR6 engines mated together.
     
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  8. By Buyck Posted: 9/7/2010 7:53am PDT

    Bugatti will downgrade that car in the coming years whit a new model. I think by two years!
     
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  9. By Edward Posted: 9/7/2010 12:34pm PDT

    What happened to the traditional horseshoe grill typical of the marque?
     
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  10. By Craig Posted: 9/7/2010 4:33pm PDT

    No Buggati is Italian
     
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  11. By SuperSkyline89 Posted: 9/7/2010 9:50pm PDT

    Bugatti is NOT Italian, it's FRENCH.
     
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  12. By  Best Products Posted: 9/8/2010 10:10am PDT

    The "Supercars second-gen Ultimate Aero" looks more like a space car than a sports car
     
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  13. By Mr.Corvette Posted: 9/17/2010 8:24pm PDT

    this car has 1350 bhp, not 1183. and micheal there is a car called the dagger gt that is comin out in 2011 i think. it goes 300 mph with 2000 bhp. i saw a side view of the SSC and it looks like a pagani. i'm sure bugatti has something up their sleeve to top all these cars.
     
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  14. By Mr.Corvette Posted: 9/17/2010 8:27pm PDT

    Ettore Bugatti is an italian that immigrated to france. VW (German)is currently the owner of bugatti. Bugatti is being made in france.
     
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