Auto Trader has announced that its car of the decade is the Bugatti Veyron.

Volkswagen’s announcement that it was to build the fastest production car on the planet was met with contempt from most of the auto world, according to the magazine.

But the German manufacturer slowly turned the dream into a reality – with fifty engineers taking five years to make the gearbox perfect.

The model was first released in 2005 complete with a 16-cylinder 8-litre W16 engine capable of producing 1,001 bhp.

It is capable of accelerating from stand still to 62 mph in 2.5 seconds using four-wheel drive, and has a top speed of 253 mph. At the time it was the fastest street-legal car in the world.

The magazine described the car as "our car of the decade because it is the best engineered and most iconic motor produced in the last ten years".

An American motorist recently claimed a low-flying pelican was to blame for a crash which sent a £600,000 Bugatti flying into a lake.

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