The 5 fastest street-legal cars money can buy

For $1.6 million new, it sure better look good.

Creating a successor to a car like the Bugatti Veyron is not easy, but at the Geneva Motor Show just earlier this month, it looked like Bugatti completely nailed it.

The Chiron is a car that has nearly 1,500 horsepower, can go from zero to 60 in 2.5 seconds, and has a limited top speed of 261 MPH.

Limited!

That means Bugatti probably has even more up their sleeve.

I guess we'll just have to wait and see how far they can really push the Chiron. For now, I think 261 MPH will do.

If you have $2.6 million to spare.

Sure, the Bugatti Veyron isn't what it used to be, but being able to reach 268 MPH is still absolutely bonkers.

There aren't really too many other words you can use to describe a 268 MPH top speed.

To see that insane number, the Veyron SuperSport makes 1,200 horsepower from a huge quad-turbocharged W16 motor.

I just wonder how fast thing would go if it didn't weight about 4,000 lbs. Too bad I didn't have $2.42 million to buy one new from the factory.

Only 40 Veyron Super Sports were made.

It's amazing how Hennessey is able to create a 270 MPH car out of a lowly Lotus Exige.

You'd have to be insane to consider stuffing a massive, twin-turbocharged V8 motor in the back of an Exige.

I guess 'insane' is actually a pretty good word to describe tune-master John Hennessey, now that I think about it.

Come to think of it, most $1.2 million cars aren't.

How do you make a $2.85 million hypercar — or megacar, as Koenigsegg prefers — that's capable of reaching 273MPH?

Well, if you break it down, Koenigsegg's formula is pretty simple.

1. You need lots of power. Like 1,340 BHP of power.

2. You need it to be relatively light. Think just about 3,000 lbs.

3. Put the power and weight together and make sure you have a perfect ratio. The One:One is actually named the One:One because it has a perfect horsepower to kilogram ratio.

If you've made it that far, you're pretty much set.

Only six One:Ones were sold.