SSC SSC Tuatara - An Obscure American Automaker Now Has the World’s Fastest Car

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[CrunchSlaughtered]

If someone is wondering how the tires look after the test, here is the photo:

 

[Bucketslash11]

Even with almost infinite money I wouldn't even be considering it. It's a one trick pony, and an unattractive one at that. At this level the performance is irrelevant, it's just for bragging rights, so if it's not appealing for any other reason, why waste the money?

the Jesko Absolut won't be winning any time attacks with its 150kg of downforce at 300mph

 

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he also designed the Bertone Mantide

 

[Bucketslash11]

I'd be sh!t scared attempting 200 mph. 300 mph? Wouldn't dream of it. That's a speed beyond imagining and the outcomes for the smallest mistake are dire to say the least.

try 481mph (775kph), fastest a piston powered car has ever gone:

 

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[tristatez28lt1]

That’s mph...

 

[Rolf]

This is an amazing achievement by SSC they basically have the first car that has past 500km/h, the speed average of 508kmh is exactly 100kmh faster than the Veyron famous run in 2005, when it was the first car to break the 400kmh mark. The pushes the boundaries so much i wonder who and what car will challenge this again.

Looking at the speed run in the Bugatti Chiron 300+ Supersport, it was still increasing speed at the end of the 8.7km straight when it hit 490kmh and Andy Wallace had to slow down due to running out of road to brake. I wonder if Bugatti had to take this same car on this longer 11.27km highway straight how much it could have achieved. Maybe it would have been a close run to this SSC. Who knows?

 

[manuelf]

Ok. Can someone tell me, why the Tuatara accomplishes this on standard off-the-shelf Michelin PSC2 ... while the Bugattis need special tires, which cost you an arm and a leg? Just because the weight?
For me the legend status of Bugatti is crumbling a bit ... after the PP video, where they had a 2007 Veyron with just few kilometers on the odo, which was far from the claimed 1001hp ... now a garage company takes the record with a car on standard tires, which looks even much nicer to me.
Never was a fan of ugly Veyron/Chiron design.

 

[M.N.D]

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[Bucketslash11]

let's see if Koenigsegg can respond to this

 

[TopspeedPT]

Ok. Can someone tell me, why the Tuatara accomplishes this on standard off-the-shelf Michelin PSC2 ... while the Bugattis need special tires, which cost you an arm and a leg? Just because the weight?
For me the legend status of Bugatti is crumbling a bit ... after the PP video, where they had a 2007 Veyron with just few kilometers on the odo, which was far from the claimed 1001hp ... now a garage company takes the record with a car on standard tires, which looks even much nicer to me.
Never was a fan of ugly Veyron/Chiron design.

It's most likely a bespoke Cup2 suited for high speed. Matt Farah asked Jason Castriota about the tires but he evaded his question.
He also said there will be more info soon.
Also, the car does 250mph in a standing mile.

 

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[tieftaucher]

Motor Trend still thinks the record is valid:

A prominent YouTuber's conspiratorial Reddit thread earlier this week cast doubts on the run's validity, based on an analysis of certain aspects of the published video—counting the elapsed time between a few points, comparing it to the Agera RS's run over the same stretch of road, and noting that the speedometer doesn't seem to match the overlaid data. But what this video doesn't rely on is the actual telemetry—it's an analysis of a video. SSC isn't using the published video to validate its claims with Guinness World Records.

That brings us to today's news. Dewetron, a GPS data analysis company with a fair bit of experience in validating top speed record runs, has gone over the SSC Tuatara's data and claims its 316.11-mph record run is indeed valid. The company says its equipment has been used to confirm four out of the five previous record runs before the Tuatara's, including for the Ultimate Aero. We haven't independently verified the data, but this is a company with skin in the game, and professionals whose reputations are on the line. It'll take more than a bit of YouTube sleuthing to second-guess their GPS data—and, we should mention, GPS systems are more than accurate enough to precisely verify the speeds of this run. And then, of course, Guinness World Records will examine the data and perhaps certify it as a valid world record.

 

[Bucketslash11]

posting here since the other thread is closed, but it looks like another attempt is underway