Wait a little over a second for the boost to build, which you can monitor via the integrated boost gauge or simply by listening to the increasingly angry induction noise from behind your head. The engine will rev to about 3,000 rpm and hold. After that, press that LC button and immediately mash the gas pedal to the floor with your other foot.
To engage launch control in the Chiron, come to a complete stop, then press the brake pedal hard to the floor with your left foot.
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The real top speed of the Chiron has not yet been determined, but the Bugatti engineers and test drivers I spoke with are confident that it will absolutely shatter the 268 mph record set by the Veyron Super Sport. By default, the car will only go a paltry 236 mph, but slot a special key into the floor and the car hunkers down into top-speed mode, now willing to take you on up to the full 261 before cutting the power in the interest of keeping the tires from flinging themselves into countless tiny pieces. This pushes the top speed up to something beyond 261 mph. The equivalent American figure is a somewhat more clunky but no less impressive 1,479 hp. The Veyron got by with a whopping 1,000 hp, while the Chiron raises the bar to a nice, round 1,500 - if you count in European, metric horses.
But there is more of everything, starting of course with more horsepower. Andrew Hoyle/CNETÄ«ut now the Veyron is gone and its successor is here, and while the Chiron hasn't fallen too far from the family tree, it's more than just an upgrade.