Ever since Karl Benz fired up his Patent-Motorwagen for the first time in 1886, the title of the fastest car in the world has been hotly contested.
The Benz could achieve a heady 10mph on a good day, with a lightweight driver and a favourable wind. Today, nearly 140 years of development has pushed the very fastest cars past a monumental 300mph. The Benz’s brave driver could cover just 4.4 metres per second; in 2019, with Andy Wallace behind the wheel, the Bugatti Chiron covered 136 metres per second.
It’s a fearsome prospect, and there are only a handful of places on earth where cars of this calibre can reach their V-max, yet there’s no shortage of car manufacturers vying for top honours.
With that in mind, here are the fastest production road cars by the numbers. And because chasing top speed is such a wild and outlandish pursuit, we've gone for more than the usual 10.
15. Koenigsegg CCR - 241.1mph
The car that knocked the F1 off the top spot did so at Italy’s Nardo Ring test track in February 2005. Koenigsegg’s second-ever production model used a 4.7-litre twin-supercharged V8 to produce north of 800bhp, urging it on to beat McLaren by a single mile per hour. The record wouldn’t stand for long, however; just two months later, Bugatti would take the crown in spectacular fashion.
Autocar road test review: Koenigsegg CC8S (2002-2004)
14. W Motors Fenyr Supersport - 248mph
W Motors might be more famous for its £2.25m Lykan, but it’s the Fenyr that makes our list, thanks to a 900bhp/885 lb ft twin-turbo 4.0-litre flat six developed by hallowed Porsche tuner Ruf. The W Motors Fenyr Supersport is based around a carbonfibre body and tubular aluminium chassis. With a likely impressive power-to-weight ratio, the Arabian car maker claims a top speed of 248mph, and a 0-62mph of less than 2.7sec.
13. McLaren Speedtail - 250mph
There’s an argument that McLaren should have put an end to all top speed bragging rights when its iconic F1 clocked 240.1mph. The Gordon Murray-designed machine held the record for 18 years, while it took McLaren 22 years before it could better its original record-breaker with the Speedtail. Like its ancestor, it featured a novel three-seater layout with a central driving position, but its combination of 747bhp twin-turbo 4.0-litre V8 and 309bhp of electrification delivers a total output of 1055bhp and a top speed of 250mph.
12. Bugatti Veyron 16.4 - 253.8mph
At the time it was the most expensive and most powerful road car ever built, but VW Group bosses wanted the Bugatti Veyron to be officially the fastest car in the world as well. An 8.0-litre quad-turbocharged W16 engine produced 987bhp from the factory, with a seven-speed automatic gearbox sending power all four wheels. The car had to be put into its Top Speed Mode for the run, activated with a special key that retracts the rear spoiler, shuts the front air diffuser and lowers the ground clearance to just 6.5cm. The result? A record-breaking 253.8mph at VW’s Ehra-Lessien test facility.
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