What is the Fastest Car in the World

Many people are of the opinion that SSC Ultimate Aero, with its top speed of 256.23 mph, is the fastest car in the world. Well it was, until recently when another car knocked it off the top spot by clocking a record breaking speed of 267.85 mph. We can understand your eagerness to know what is the fastest car in the world as of today, but before we move on to that let's have a look at the nine fastest cars which this particular car left behind to reach the top spot.

Fastest Cars in the World

The word 'speed' is something that gives many people a 'high'. These are the people who dream of driving the fastest street cars that have ever been produced. But how do you determine which car is the fastest? The ThrustSSC - a British jet-propelled car, can clock a speed of 763 mph. Now that's like a supersonic car, but it's not a road-legal car and hence you don't get to own it. Though not 700 mph (or even half of that), there do exist road legal cars which boast of speed exceeding 200 mph. Now 200 mph is no less speed, and any person who has driven a car at full speed on a long empty stretch of road must be knowing what we are talking about. Given below is a list of the top 10 fastest cars in the world - which you get to own and drive, but only if you are ready to shell out some money.

Rank	Car Model	Top Speed	Base Price $US
10	Porsche Carrera GT	205 mph	440,000
9	Lamborghini Murcielago LP640	211 mph	430,000
8	Pagani Zonda F	215 mph	667,321
7	Jaguar XJ220	217 mph	650,000
6	Ferrari Enzo	217 mph	670,000
5	McLaren F1	240 mph	970,000
4	Koenigsegg CCX	245 mph	545,568
3	Saleen S7 Twin-Turbo	248 mph	555,000
2	SSC Ultimate Aero	257 mph	654,400
1	Bugatti Veyron Super Sport	267 mph	1,700,000

What is the Fastest Car in the World (2010)?

The distinction of being the fastest production car in the world as of today goes to Bugatti Veyron Super Sport which created a new record by clocking an amazing speed of 267.85 mph in June 2010. That makes it 11 mph faster than SSC Ultimate Aero - which boasts of top speed of 256.23 mph. The Veyron Super Sport is manufactured by Bugatti Automobiles owned by the Volkswagen Group. Even though it shares the same 8.0-liter 16-cylinder engine with the original Bugatti Veyron, larger turbochargers boost its power from 987 bhp to 1,184 bhp. A boost of 197 bhp is not a small thing, and that's exactly what the record breaking speed of Bugatti Veyron Super Sport highlights. In fact, this car can go from 0-124 mph in a mere 7.3 seconds and 0-186 mph in a mere 15 seconds. The fact that the body of this car is made from carbon fiber makes it lighter than the original Veyron, and this assists the Veyron Super Sport in becoming the fastest car ever built. But what's the point in manufacturing a car which cannot be used to its full potential? There can be many reasons for this, but the most important one is the fact that its adds to the manufacturer's reputation by showing the entire world what their engineers can do.

That was brief information about what is the fastest car in the world and what makes it so fast. While the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport is the fastest car in the world today, even its manufacturers cannot claim that it will continue to top the list of ten fastest cars in the world in the years to come. The vast scale development in the field of science and technology has resulted in surfacing of some amazing concepts which can be used to create engineering marvels this Super Sport model. When the SSC Ultimate Aero had clocked its top speed in 2007 how many people must have actually thought that its rein of supremacy would be so short.