The McLaren F1 was formerly the fastest street legal production car in the world from 1994 to 2005, the longest for any street legal or production car in the history of automobiles.
The title of "world's fastest production road car" is constantly in contention, especially because the term "production car" is not always well-defined by the media.
Read on to find out who displaced the McLaren's long standing record...
The title of "world's fastest production road car" is constantly in contention, especially because the term "production car" is not always well-defined by the media.
Read on to find out who displaced the McLaren's long standing record...
The McLaren F1 has a top speed of 231 mph (370 km/h), restricted by the rev limiter at 7500 rpm. However, a prototype was able to reach a higher top speed setting a new world record of 386.7 km/h (240.01 mph) at 7800 rpm. Callaway's Sledgehammer Corvette, the road going version of the Dauer 962 Le Mans (winner of the 1994 24 Hours of Le Mans as a GT) and most recently a version of the 911 Turbo produced by German tuner "9ff" have all proven in testing that they are capable of top speeds matching or in excess of 240 mph, although none of them are considered production cars, More recently, the Koenigsegg CCR recorded a speed of 388 km/h (241 mph), a record which, in turn, has been broken by the Bugatti Veyron, with a top speed of 407 km/h (253 mph), which in turn has been broken by the SSC Ultimate Aero TT with a recorded speed of 411.72 km/h (255.83 mph). All of these are considered to be production cars, and have therefore each beaten the McLaren's record. |
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