But, about a decade ago, it decided to have a go at the world record for the fastest production car. The tuner is renowned for turning up the heat performance on a range of vehicles, with everything ranging from trucks and SUVs to sports cars. The Venom GT is the brainchild of John Hennessey of Hennessey Performance Engineering based in Sealy, Texas. The Venom GT, just like the Tuatara, was also designed to be the fastest production car in the world, designed to take on the mighty Bugatti Veyron. While that didn't happen, SSC got a lot closer to it, this time touching 295 mph, and beating its own record to become the world's fastest production car!Ī front 3/4 action shot of a 2011 Hennessey Venom GT driving The American automaker was clearly not happy with this as it wanted to breach the 300-mph mark. Consequently, Jerod Shelby himself came forward and said that they'd try again and a few months later, SSC went for it again, this time at the Florida Kennedy Space Center where the Tuatara clocked in an average speed of 282.9 mph, making it the fastest production car. However, the legitimacy of this run couldn't be verified. SSC attempted a speed run back in October where the Tuatara hit an average speed of 316 mph. That is enough poke to propel the 2,749 pounds, rear-wheel-drive Tuatara that features an all-carbon construction to some serious speeds. The 5.9-liter twin-turbo V-8 features a flat-plane crank and puts out a whopping 1,750 horsepower on 91-Octane gas. Its V-8 engine was developed by Tom Nelson of Nelson Racing Engines. The supercar was in development for the better part of a decade and the production model finally hit the road in 2018. Remember, this was 2011, and the Chiron didn't exist yet. It was conceived with one purpose - to reclaim the title of the Fastest car in the world from the Bugatti Veyron. A successor to the Ultimate Aero, the Tuatara first debuted as a concept car at the 2011 Concourse' D'elegance in Pebble beach. Occupying the top spot in the list is the SSC Tuatara. Shot of a black SSC Tuatara outdoors with its doors open
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