Fastest Car In The World - SSC Ultimate Aero TT?
31 May, 2007
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There must be some sort of prize for making the fastest car in the world. For a while the McLaren owned the title with the F1, then the Bugatti Veyron came along with its 1001 horsepower quad-turbo W16 engine with a top speed of around 400km/hr - never officially tested.
And of course there is the current official title holder, the Koenigsegg CCR (392km/hr).
A little bit after that Barbrus came out with the Barbrus TKR which supposedly goes up to 430KM/hr and does the 0-100 in less than 2 seconds (faster than an F1 car).
While the Barbrus has never been officially tested, there is an American company now aiming for the title, with this:
The SSC Ultimate Aero TT is trying to beat the Koenigsegg CCR’s official speed of 392km/hr. Winding Road reports that Junus Khan, SSC’s marketing director recently admited that the company has managed speeds of up to 389km/hr.
However the car apparently has only ever deployed 71 per cent of its available power to reach those speeds. The Americans look determined the beat the CCR’s time, when will bugatti and barbrus authenticate their claims? In an episode of Top Gear, James May apparently took the car to over 400km/hr.
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May 31st, 2007 at 4:59 pm
Actually, the Bugatti has had it’s top speed tested - Episode 2, season 9 - on Top Gear. And it did it. Quite comfortably, too.
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May 31st, 2007 at 5:01 pm
Thats correct CapnCrunch (its also mentioned at the bottom of the article). However a Topgear topspeed test doesn’t make it official. However I have no doubt the Bugatti is the fastest car (well maybe apart from the Barbrus)
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May 31st, 2007 at 5:32 pm
I’m often confused when people say “fastest car”, does it mean “top speed”, or “acceleration”? Somehow comparing speed is getting more and more meaningless while we are paying AUD 1.43 per liter for fuel. Given enough resources, anybody can achieve any top speed they want (unrigorously speaking). It’s like supercomputers, put enough processors together and you get something that can beat Kasparov.
Supercar companies, how about giving us the figures in km per liter per second, or km per liter per second per second? Then again, supercars aren’t for the rest of us, who have to constantly worry about mortgage and the kids crawling on our back.
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May 31st, 2007 at 6:41 pm
Yes sorry alborz I did see your comment in the last paragraph *after* I posted.
Whilst not “official”, TG is official enough for me :)
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June 27th, 2007 at 9:41 pm
Here is an order form for you all to fill out for your Bugatti ,have fun !!!!!!!! HAHAHA
http://www.bugatti-configurato.....erForm.pdf
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August 12th, 2007 at 3:27 pm
A couple of months ago I read an article on a car mag website about the Koenigsegg v Veyron clainm to being the worlds fastest production car.
Apparently when a company plans to break/set a current world record they contact Guinness; organise a date time and venue then arrange for a Guiness official to be present inorder to verify/certify the attempt [if successful]
Koenigsiegg tested their CCX supercar and broke the world record previously held by the BMW McLaren F1.
Guiness gave Koenigsiegg some paperwork to complete and send it to Guiness before the updated record book was published. Which they did
A couple of months later Bugatti tested the Veyron with a Guy from Guiness and it broke the Koenigsieggs record
However; going by the report Bugatti didn’t send the paperwork into Guiness within the specified time making the attempt null and void. so even though the Veyron went faster than the Koenigsiegg [technically]it’s not the worlds fastest production car
Koenigsiegg has since released a 1000+Hp supercar and is planning to break their own Guiness record.
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September 22nd, 2007 at 11:00 am
Good Day you all, can we make a world international race out of this and use all these worlds fastest cars and view it on tv and put an end to the he said they said and let the drivers and cars show us whats really happenining.In any event if you do it have a good time and may the trully fastest car win,by the way no offence whom ever comes 2nd 3rd 4th and so forth but someone has to be first.
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March 10th, 2008 at 5:52 pm
these cars are so godamn freakin awesome
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March 10th, 2008 at 5:55 pm
Im prety sure that the buggati veyron was the fastest car in the worl because in the wheels magazine it made a top speed of 409 km/h
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April 10th, 2008 at 6:29 am
Its insane to think a car with a top speed of 430 k is real. What we need is to test these bad boys out at the salt flats in utah, see what they can do and then we’ll make the official decision.
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