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SSC’s Tuatara is the fastest car in the world with 331mph top speed

Postby Rory Phoulorie » October 20th, 2020, 7:20 am

Top Gear can exclusively reveal that Shelby SuperCars (SSC) North America has set a new production car top speed record, hitting a VMAX of 331mph and setting a two-way average of 316.11mph on a seven-mile stretch of closed road just outside of Las Vegas, Nevada. Climb on board for the outrageous 0-331mph run as Top Gear is granted exclusive footage from the guys that are making the full feature-length documentary of this epic endeavour, landing later in the year. For the full story on this wild new world record and just how SSC stole Bugatti’s crown, head to https://www.topgear.com/car-news/superc ... -top-speed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N22JfNH ... el=TopGear


Not sure what I was doing wrong in trying to embed the video, anyway the full link is there.

Lots of butt-hurt Bugatti and Koenigsegg fanboy comments in the YouTube video. I don't know why people can't appreciate the achievement. That car was still pulling at 331mph.

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Re: SSC’s Tuatara is the fastest car in the world with 331mph top speed

Postby Dave » October 20th, 2020, 7:25 am

Carol would be proud!

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Postby Rory Phoulorie » October 20th, 2020, 7:26 am

Dave wrote:Carol would be proud!

No relation to Carol Shelby.

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Re: SSC’s Tuatara is the fastest car in the world with 331mph top speed

Postby Dave » October 20th, 2020, 7:33 am

Really, I take it back, never knew.

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Re: SSC’s Tuatara is the fastest car in the world with 331mph top speed

Postby VexXx Dogg » October 20th, 2020, 1:41 pm

1750hp?
that's high power, but the R&D on aero on that car is probably insane to conquer that speed

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Re: SSC’s Tuatara is the fastest car in the world with 331mph top speed

Postby adnj » October 20th, 2020, 3:12 pm

Rory Phoulorie wrote:
Dave wrote:Carol would be proud!

No relation to Carol Shelby.
I believe you mean Caroll Shelby.

VexXx Dogg wrote:1750hp?
that's high power, but the R&D on aero on that car is probably insane to conquer that speed


I'm not so sure. It has a lot of Porsche Rimac proportions. It looks like they are doing some very serious engine and drivetrain design though.

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Re: SSC’s Tuatara is the fastest car in the world with 331mph top speed

Postby Rory Phoulorie » October 21st, 2020, 7:22 am

adnj wrote:I'm not so sure. It has a lot of Porsche Rimac proportions. . . .

The concept car for the Tuatara was done since 2011. They had some funding issues in getting a new factory built and this car off the ground which is why the first running prototype was only completed in 2018. So probably it is Porsche and Rimac that took aerodynamic cues off them.

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Re: SSC’s Tuatara is the fastest car in the world with 331mph top speed

Postby 16 cycles » October 31st, 2020, 2:04 pm

More than a few vids on analysis...for the SSC Team to disprove now...

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