Bugatti Veyron
1001 Horsepower
Top Speed: 252.2 mph
The Bugatti Veyron 16.4 is currently the second fastest and second most powerful street-legal production car in the world. It can produce an excess of 1,001 horsepower, in either the metric or SAE scale, and achieve an average top speed of 408.47 km/h (253.8 mph). The Bugatti Veyron reached full production in September 2005. The car is built by Volkswagen AG subsidiary Bugatti Automobiles SAS in its Molsheim (Alsace, France) factory and is sold under the French Bugatti marque. It is named after French racing driver Pierre Veyron, who won the 24 hours of Le Mans in 1939 while racing for the original Bugatti firm.
Koenigsegg CCX
900 Horsepower
Top Speed: 250 mph
The Koenigsegg CCX is currently the fastest car to complete a lap of the BBC Top Gear circuit, in a time of 1 minute 17.6 seconds. It originally went around the course in 1:20.4, but was then fitted with a non-standard rear spoiler to provide downforce, after The Stig spun the original version off the track. The Stig purportedly recommended this modification, correctly predicting that the car would then be the fastest ever round Top Gear’s track. Koenigsegg themselves state that the improvement was due to adjustments other than the spoiler.
The Koenigsegg CCX was passed by the Caparo T1 on the November 11, 2007 show, but Clarkson took it off the board and said “You know the rules James. If a car can’t go over a sleeping police man, it can’t go on that board.” This refers to Top Gear’s rule that any car on the board must be able to go over a normal speed bump, something the Caparo would be unable to do because of its low nose. The Caparo was then taken off, and the Koensigsegg CCX remains the fastest car The Stig has ever driven around Top Gear’s track.
Saleen S7 Twin-Turbo
750 Horsepower
Top Speed: 248 mph
The S7 can accelerate from 0-60 miles per hour (97 km/h) in an estimated 3.4 seconds, and to 100 miles per hour in an estimated 8.1 seconds. It can complete a standing quarter mile in an estimated 11.75 seconds, reaching 126 miles per hour (203 km/h). The maximum speed of the car is above 200 miles per hour (322 km/h).
McLaren F1
620 Horsepower
Top Speed: 240.14
Designed as a Formula 1 for 2 (or even 3) McLaren F1 feautures a 6.0lt. BMW engine that can reach 60mph (97km/h) in 3.1 seconds. The car incorporates many world firsts for a road car: a fully carbon fibre monocoque structure, fully active fan-assisted ground effect aerodynamics, a central driving position with two offset rear passenger seats.
The car’s production has now stopped, after only some more than 100 F1s were built. So you have to try the used car market in order to get your hands on the world’s fastest car…
Ferrari Enzo
657 Horsepower
Top Speed: 217 mph
The Enzo can accelerate to 60 mph (97 km/h) in 3.14 seconds and can reach 161 kilometres per hour (100 mph) in 6.6 seconds. The ¼ mile (0.4 km) time is from 10.8 to 11.2 sec at well over 130 mph (209 km/h) and the top speed is estimated at 350 kilometers per hour (217+ mph).[5] It is rated at 12 mpg US (29.4 L/100 km) in the city and 18 mpg US (19.6 L/100 km) on the highway.
Jaguar XJ220
549 Horsepower
Top Speed: 217 mph
In 1992 at the Nardò Ring, Martin Brundle drove an XJ220 to 212.3 mph. Because the car’s catalytic converters sapped the engine of an estimated 60 horsepower (45 kW), they were later disconnected and the rev limiter was increased from 7200 rpm to 7900 rpm in a quest to make the XJ220 go even faster. On a later run with the modifications, Brundle took the XJ220 to 217.1 mph (the equivalent to approximately 223 mph (359 km/h) on a straight road).
Pagani Zonda F
602 Horsepower
Top Speed: 215 mph
The Zonda C12 F debuted at the 2005 Geneva Motor Show. It is the most extensive reengineering of the Pagani car yet, though it shares much with its predecessors including the 7.3 L V12. Power is increased to 602 PS (594 hp/443 kW) with a special clubsport model producing 683 PS (674 hp/502 kW). The company promises a 3.5 second sprint to 62 mph (100 km/h), a top speed over 215 mph (346 km/h) and it will be the queen in braking from 300 km/h to 0 (186 mph to 0). The Zonda F clubsport has a power to weight ratio of 521 bhp/ton (384 W/kg). An Enzo Ferrari, comparatively, has a power to weight ratio of 483 bhp/ton (356 W/kg).
Lamborghini Murcielago
633 Horsepower
Top Speed: 213
The name Murciélago (pronounced mur-thee-ay-la-go in traditional Castilian Spanish and mur-see-ay-la-go in Spanish spoken in Mexico and other Spanish-speaking countries of Latin America), means “bat” in Spanish, comes from a bull that survived 24 sword strokes in an 1879 fight at the arena of Córdoba, and fought with such passion and spirit that the matador chose to spare its life, a rare honor. In another Lamborghini tie-in, the bull was later presented as a gift to Don Antonio Miura, who was a noted breeder and whose bull ranch the Lamborghini Miura was named after, and went on to sire a line of famous fighting bulls.
Porsche Carrera GT
605 Horsepower
Top Speed: 209 mph
The Carrera GT is powered by an all-new 5.7 litre V10 engine producing 612 DIN (605 SAE) horsepower (450 kW) whereas the original concept car featured a 5.5 litre version rated at 558 hp (416 kW). Porsche claims it will accelerate from 0 to 100 km/h (62.5 mph) in 3.9 seconds and has a maximum speed of 330 km/h (205 mph), although road tests indicated that in reality the car could accelerate from 0-60 mph in 3.6 seconds and 0-100 mph in 7.0 seconds. 0-125 mph in 9.9. The Carrera GT has a basic 5 color paint schemes which include: Guards Red, Fayence Yellow, Basalt Black, GT Silver and Seal Grey. Custom colors were also available from the factory.
McLaren Mercedes SLR
626 Horsepower
Top Speed: 207 mph
The SLR sports a 232-kilogram (512 lb), hand-built, 5.4-litre (5439 cc/331.9 cu in), supercharged, all-aluminum, SOHC V8 engine. The cylinders are angled at 90 degrees with three valves per cylinder and lubricated via a dry sump system. The compression ratio is 8.8:1 and the bore and stroke is 97 milimetre (3.82 in) and 92 millimeters (3.62 in), respectively. The Lysholm-type twin-screw supercharger produces 0.9 bar (13 psi) of boost, the turbine rotates at 23000 revolutions per minute, and the air is cooled via two intercoolers. The engine generates a maximum power of 626 PS (617 hp/460 kW) at 6500 revolutions per minute and a maximum torque of 780 newton-metres (575 ft·lbf) at 3250 revolutions per minute.
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