with a two-way average time of 350.092 mph (563.418 km/h). Fast as that is, it was nowhere near the limits of the car's power. That speed was merely the fastest the tyres could withstand – Andy never even got the car into top gear. With the right tyres, he estimated it could ...
The ShelbySuperCars(SSC), an American private car company, makes its debut in the race for the fastest car in the world. SSC Tuatara became the world’s fastest car with a record speed of 331mph that equates to 532.6km/h. This mind-blowing speed is an absolute thrill that equally roote...
With a combination of beauty, power and speed, sports cars never cease to put stars in the eyes of young and old alike. Ever since the first fast car was built (the Bugatti Type 41 Royale, which appeared in the 1920s and reached speeds of up to 124 miles per hour), the speedometer ...
The official land-speed record (measured over one mile) is 1,227.985 km/h (763.035 mi/h) (Mach 1.020), set by Andy Green (UK) on 15 October 1997 in the Black Rock Desert, Nevada, USA, in Thrust SSC. The car is powered by two Rolls-Royce Spey 202 jet engines which generate 222...
Shelby SuperCars (SSC), a Washington-based private car company in North America has set a new top speed record for a production car. The car hit an average speed of 316.1 mph on a seven-mile stretch of closed road. Earlier Bugatti hit 304.77 mph (490.48 km/h). But Bugatti ...
On Saturday, A Koenigsegg Agera RS driven by factory test driver Niklas Lilja recorded a two-way average speed of 277.9 mph (444.6 km/h) on an 11-mile section of closed public highway between Las Vegas and Pahrump to claim the highest speed ever recorded by a production car.It...
Porsche had previously reclaimed the fastest electric production car record by taking 2 seconds out of the Plaid’s time with the Taycan Turbo S, but the Plaid Track Pack later obliterated that lead by going more than 8 seconds faster than the Porsche. Now Porsche has fired back with the 1...
The title of "fastest production car in the world" is, perhaps, the most prestigious in the world of performance cars. It takes a very special car to break the production speed record - it has to have incredible engine power (well over 1000 metric horsepower), low coefficient of drag and...
Watching this film and processing the numbers it’s hard to imagine it ever being bettered. After all, it was 13 years ago that SSC stunned the automotive nobility when it set the production car speed record by hitting 255, taking the title from Bugatti with the added validation of Guinness...
Top Speed: 192 MPH ThePurosangueis technically an SUV, but it’s really a V-12 supercar in a crossover body. With a screaming 715-horsepower naturally-aspirated engine and room for just four people, the emphasis here is certainly more on sport than utility. However, it's still a four-...