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: the Koenigsegg Jesko and Hennessey Venom F5 are yet to achieve their full top speed potential, but both are expected to pass 310mph.
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. McLaren F1 - 240.1mph
McLaren's landmark hypercar carried the title of World's fastest production car for the best part of 15 years, thanks to a record run set by racing driver Andy Wallace at Volkswagen’s Ehra-Lessien test track in March 1998. However, that run required the BMW-supplied V12's rev limiter to be raised by 800rpm (to 8,300rpm) – no production F1 has ever been recorded at more than 211mph. Unmodified, the 6.1-litre powerplant should be capable of thrusting the F1 to a still-astonishing 221mph.
Autocar's exclusive McLaren F1 road test: 30 years on
14. 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)
13. 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.
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