until someone comes along and smashes it. For a seven-year period from 1998 to 2005, the McLaren F1 held the top speed record for production cars at 240.1 miles per hour, which seemed unbeatable ...

This is an impressive leap forward in top speed for the electric automaker, and proves that China really isn't messing around ...

Keen car enthusiasts will know that many of Bugatti ... You might wonder why they need quite so much room for a top speed record when the vehicle can put over 1,500 horsepower to the ground.

Building and running a land speed record car is an expensive business that requires incredibly wealthy benefactors. Doing it on a smaller scale with a radio control car is still pricy, but more ...

What about top speed? Performance cars are even measured by how fast they can stop. As the 20th century progressed, the land speed record became increasingly the domain of specialized teams and ...

The car can reach a top speed of 190 mph and ... stunned the world when it obliterated the Goodwood Festival of Speed hill climb record with a blistering time of just 39.08 seconds, making it ...

In the automotive world, one of the most coveted records that any production car can hold is having the highest top speed. Since the dawn of the automobile, people have been putting cars on ...

Bugatti set another top speed record for open-top cars despite withdrawing from the hunt in 2019. The Bugatti W16 Mistral reached 453.91 km/h (282 mph) with Andy Wallace behind the wheel.

An autonomously driven Maserati MC20 went 197.7 mph, breaking the speed record for a self-driving car. The run was a collaboration between the Indy Autonomous Challenge and researchers from ...