On October 10, Webb drove a $1.9 million Shelby Supercars (SSC) Tuatara to a world record for the fastest production car on a seven-mile closed track. On two one-way routes, the Tuatara averaged 316.11 mph. The fastest race of 331.15 mph broke the previous one-way road record of 284.6 mph set by Koenigsegg on the same stretch of road in 2017 of 46.6 mph. Another remarkable speed record of a production car occurred in September 2019, when a Bugatti Chiron reached 304.773 mph on the Ehra Lessien test track in the Germany.As for the designation of «world record»: The speed race was measured and tested to Guinness specifications, but has not yet been officially certified as a world record by Guinness. Aj Caldwell: This is the perfect time to be a car enthusiast. Modern times have brought us the amazing performance of electric vehicles and some updates to some old favorites. Speed records have been broken time and time again as new technologies fuel competition from automakers for the title of fastest car. So, as the 2010s draw to a close, here are the 10 fastest cars of the last decade. On November 4, 2017, the Nevada Department of Transportation closed an 11-mile stretch of road outside of Las Vegas. Koenigsegg showed up with a customer`s Agera RS and Koenigsegg factory driver Niklas Lilja made two high-speed drives (in opposite directions). The average pace (including a run at 285 mph) was recorded by the Guinness Book of Records. Built a little more carefully than its predecessor in the shape of a 250 GTO, this mid-engine turboflawer was built for a series of road races that was folded before it began. In October, a small U.S.

automaker called SSC North America claimed that its 1,750-horsepower Tuatara supercar had driven more than 300 miles per hour, breaking official world speed records for a road-legal passenger car. Unlike other numbers used to distinguish vehicles from each other, such as zero to 60 mph times, a G-Force curve, or quarter-mile times, it`s incredibly difficult to set a new top speed record. Aside from a car with the right amount of power and running efficiently through the air, it`s almost impossible to find a stretch of road long enough to get a car up to 300 mph. That`s why top speed records are rarely broken. «Automakers like this road because it`s long and straight and there`s not a lot of wind,» Webb said. «But they don`t pay attention to the width. It`s pretty tight, with low tolerances on both sides of the car, so the drivers hate it. We have to imagine that the GT would drive even faster on a longer track. We are also incredibly curious to know how M2K prepared the car for high-speed racing, especially how the tyres handled the forces at such speeds. Bugatti has previously said the Chiron supercar will not go faster than its 261 mph speed limit due to tyre restrictions. Michelin announced last year that it was working on tires to handle speeds of 300 mph.

Almost as if a switch had been flipped, several supercars reached what was long thought impossible for a road car last year, and all of them broke 300 MPH. So there you have it. The fastest cars of the decade. The 2010s brought us 300 mph; We can only imagine what the next decade will bring. From a twin-turbo V8 engine, a 1,200,. what? (laughs) Director of Photography: From a twin turbocharged V8. Alexander is a former ghost writer who became a content writer and editor. He wrote everything from political commentary to restaurant and technology reviews, but always had a deep passion for the automotive industry. With a particular talent for advising consumers, he dives into the workings, sometimes in the true sense of the word, of every car on the road, from supercars to valuable daily mass market drivers. He not only won the top speed crown, but also took the fastest time of 0-249 mph-0 (33.29 seconds, extremely faster than a Bugatti Chiron), reached the highest average speed over the flight kilometer (268 mph), ditto for the aerial mile (268.74) and recorded the fastest speed recorded on a (closed) public road. It was 284.55 miles per hour reached during the first crack of the agera on a top speed race. In particular, the GT went 300.4 mph in the standing mile after blowing more than 174.5 mph in the quarter mile and 240 mph at the half-mile point.

Above all, this car is still legal on the road, which makes the record much more impressive. However, it is not a production vehicle, which leaves this title open to a number of other manufacturers. In 10th place comes a car brand that most people haven`t heard of. Noble is a British car manufacturer known for creating a real track beast. The Noble M600 goes from a 650 hp Yamaha V8 engine to a top speed of 225 mph. On October 10, 2020, SSC claimed that its monstrous Tuatara had reached an average top speed of 316.11 mph en route to a new record for the world`s fastest production car. After the race, things deteriorated for SPC. The speed record was examined because people discovered inaccuracies in SSC`s videos. It wasn`t until July 2021 that the SSC officially declared that the Tuatara had not reached 316 miles per hour. In an Instagram post, SSC admitted that the supercar wasn`t even reaching 301 miles per hour.

In August 2019, Bugatti led the former Hennessey Venom F5 into the title. Not only that, but the Chiron Super Sport 300+ was also the first car to cross 300 miles per hour on the track. The final record was 304.773 mph with racing driver Andy Wallace at the wheel at Volkswagen`s Ehra Lessien test track in Germany. If more than 300 mph seems difficult to understand, you don`t lack imagination. Covering 450 feet in a single second is a beautiful trick. Many cars claim to be able to break through the 300 MPH barrier and usually seek lucrative funding without proof that they can actually achieve this goal, but the Devel Sixteen is different. Although they only have one prototype that they have already admitted not being able to approach 300 MPH, they have something that these other silver sails do not have, Paolo Garella. Hennessey Performance Engineering has already ranked first on this list with its Venom F5. The Successor to the Venom GT, the F5, has a theoretical and claimed top speed of 301 mph, surpassing the next fastest car with a solid lead.

It`s a shame that Bugatti had to get involved again in the top speed wars. Even though there are now faster cars, the Chiron Super Sport is by far the most comfortable and luxurious hypercar on this list. This is not surprising, as Bugatti started as a luxury bodybuilder. The nearly $4 million hypercar will likely be the most famous hypercar for decades to come.