Fastest Productions Cars

[Guardian]

Sure, this information is obtainable quite easily; but, hey, I'm bored and it wouldn't hurt to have it on GTPlanet.

Year - Car - Top Speed

1886 - Benz Patent Motorwagen - 8mph
1886 - 1894 - Daimler Motor Carriage - 11 mph
1894 - 1899 - Benz Velo - 12 mph
1899 - 1901 - Cannstatt-Daimler - 42 mph
1901 - 1903 - Mercedes 35HP - 53mph
1903 - 1913 - Mercedes 60HP - 75mph
1913 - 1921 - Vauxhall 30-98 - 85mph
1921 - 1949?? - Bentley 3-litre - 100mph
1949 - 1955 - Jaguar XK120 - 124.6 mph
1955 - 1957 - Mercedes-Benz 300SL - 140 mph
1958 - 1959 - Aston Martin DB4 - 141 mph
1959 - 1962 - Aston Martin DB4 GT - 152 mph
1963 - 1966 - Iso Rivolta Grifo A3/L 327 - 161 mph
1967 - 1968 - Lamborghini Miura P400 - 171 mph
1968 - 1978 - Ferrari 365 GTB/4 Daytona - 175 mph
1978 - 1984 - Lamborghini Countach LP400S - 180 mph
1984 - 1986 - Ferrari 288 GTO - 188 mph
1986 - 1987 - Porsche 959 - 197 mph
1987 - Ferrari F40 - 201 mph
1987 - 1992 - RUF CTR - 211 mph
1992 - Bugatti EB110 SS - 214 mph
1992 - 1993 - Jaguar XJ220 - 217 mph
1994 - 2005 - McLaren F1 - 240.17 mph
2005 - Koenigsegg CCR - 240.387 mph
2005 - 2007 - Bugatti Veyron - 248.54 mph
2007 - 2010 - SSC Ultimate Aero TT - 256.14 mph
2010 - 2013 - Bugatti Veyron Super Sport - 267.86 mph
2013 - Hennessey Venom GT - 265.7 mph (SS stripped of record)

If you see any errors/mistakes please alert me immediately. Otherwise, hope this helps you (somehow)

*Credit to GranTurismo916 - who helped tremendously. *

 

[homeforsummer]

If you see any errors/mistakes please alert me immediately. Otherwise, hope this helps you (somehow)

Only one glaring error I can see, which is that there's no way that a 12 mph car held the title of fastest production car all the way until 1948...

 

[Guardian]

Only one glaring error I can see, which is that there's no way that a 12 mph car held the title of fastest production car all the way until 1948...

Hmmm...it seems that some research is required.
I never gave that a second look - even though it is blatantly obvious.

Cheers for the heads up.

 

[Pagey279]

Isn't the veyron super sports top speed 267.8?

 

[ExigeEvan]

I thought the Super Sport had been restored to top dog as the rules on limiters (by Guiness) had been clarified, and that removing it does not constitute a modification?

 

[AudiMan2011]

Isn't the McLaren F1's top speed 241 mph?

 

[Liquid]

Considering the RUF CTR was the first production car to hit 200mph, and had a top speed of 211mph, surely that should be in there somewhere?

 

[Murcie_LP640]

Also forgot the Koenigsegg CCR in between the McLaren F1 and Bugatti Veyron.

The CCR managed to take the Guinness record for the world’s fastest production car at the Nardo test track in Italy, in February 2005. The CCR reached 388 km/h, beating the 8 year old record set by the Mclaren F1.

From Koenigsegg's website. Insignificant the amount of time may be between the CCR and Veyron but it still managed it

 

[AudiMan2011]

The SSC Ultimate Aero TT is also missing from the list between the standard Veyron and the SS as it also held the production car speed record at 256 mph.

 

[daan]

Only one glaring error I can see, which is that there's no way that a 12 mph car held the title of fastest production car all the way until 1948...

I also wouldn't have thought the Daytona held it all the way from 1968 to 1983.

 

[GranTurismo916]

1886 - Benz Patent Motorwagen - 8mph
1886 - 1894 - Daimler Motor Carriage - 11 mph
1894 - 1899 - Benz Velo - 12 mph
1899 - 1901 - Cannstatt-Daimler - 42 mph
1901 - 1903 - Mercedes 35HP - 53mph
1903 - 1913 - Mercedes 60HP - 75mph
1913 - 1921 - Vauxhall 30-98 - 85mph
1921 - 1949?? - Bentley 3-litre - 100mph
1949 - 1955 - Jaguar XK120 - 124.6 mph
1955 - 1957 - Mercedes-Benz 300SL - 140 mph
1958 - 1959 - Aston Martin DB4 - 141 mph
1959 - 1962 - Aston Martin DB4 GT - 152 mph
1963 - 1966 - Iso Rivolta Grifo A3/L 327 - 161 mph
1967 - 1968 - Lamborghini Miura P400 - 171 mph
1968 - 1978 - Ferrari 365 GTB/4 Daytona - 175 mph
1978 - 1984 - Lamborghini Countach LP400S - 180 mph
1984 - 1986 - Ferrari 288 GTO - 188 mph
1986 - 1987 - Porsche 959 - 197 mph
1987 - Ferrari F40 - 201 mph
1987 - 1992 - RUF CTR - 211 mph
1992 - Bugatti EB110 SS - 214 mph
1992 - 1997 - Jaguar XJ220 - 217 mph
1997 - 2005 - McLaren F1 - 240.17 mph
2005 - Koenigsegg CCR - 240.387 mph
2005 - 2007 - Bugatti Veyron - 248.54 mph
2007 - 2010 - SSC Ultimate Aero TT - 256.14 mph
2010 - 2013 - Bugatti Veyron Super Sport - 267.86 mph
2013 - Hennessey Venom GT - 265.7 mph (SS stripped of record)

 

[Rayzah]

This literally looks like a cut and paste of this wikipedia page.

 

[Tornado]

It was.

And a late-70s/early-80s emissions strangled Countach with the giant windsock bodykit would have had a hard enough time going faster than the Miura, nevermind the Daytona.

 

[Kitten]

June 26, 2010-Jan, 2013 - Bugatti Veyron S/Sport - 257.87 mph (415 km/h)

The sad part is that the Speed Limiter was removed for this :\


"The Veyron SS that topped out at 267.8 mph back in 2010 had a modified speed restrictor"

 

[Guardian]

1886 - Benz Patent Motorwagen - 8mph
1886 - 1894 - Daimler Motor Car - 267.86 mph....
...2013 - Hennessey Venom GT - 265.7 mph (SS stripped of record)

Thanks GT916, I'll add your edits to the OP immediately. 👍

This literally looks like a cut and paste of this wikipedia page.

It is...but so what?

I summarised it, so we could have one to look at here on GTPlanet.
Plus, if there are any errors (which there clearly was), they can be fixed.

 

[Tornado]

So what's the point?




And his edits aren't all accurate anyway.

 

[Guardian]

So what's the point?
And his edits aren't all accurate anyway.

Yeah? Well at least he's making an effort to help. Instead of criticising something which has been explained.

Please, if you have nothing useful to add to the OP - move on. Please.

 

[Tornado]

You mean an effort to help like when I explained why one of his edits was wrong before you even put them in the OP?

 

[Guardian]

And where might that explanation be?

All I see is "What's the point?" and "His edits aren't accurate".
Please elaborate, as to where the helpfulness is within those statements.

 

[Tornado]

The important part of that was "before you even put them in the OP", which should have led you to the post I made before you put them in the OP:

And a late-70s/early-80s emissions strangled Countach with the giant windsock bodykit would have had a hard enough time going faster than the Miura, nevermind the Daytona.

And along those lines, this:

Was pretty much the fastest anything (115 for the regular car, 130 for the supercharged one) from 1929 when it came out until the 50s, with the various economies in the toilet and war breaking out for all those years meaning no one wanted to go bankrupt like Duesenberg already had within a decade after making it.

 

[Slash]

Shelby Cobra 427 S/C? I think that was up around 150 but I can't remember.

Charger Daytona could do 200 and was the first car ever to do it...

 

[GranTurismo916]

I made some mistakes:

Change the XJ220 to '93-'97
Change the McLaren to '97-'05
Change the Bentley to '21-'29
Delete the XK120 completely
Add the Duesenberg SJ Superchared and make it '29-'55 (130 mph)
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And, uncomfirmed changes that could be made with confirmation (Do not change unless you or someone else can confirm these are "production" cars):
Add the Pegaso Z-102 (Only had a run of 86, so I'm not sure if it counts) and make it '53-'55 (152 mph). (Which would shorten the SJ's reign to '29-'53, delete the 300SL and both DB4s completely.)
Add the Ferrari 410 Superamerica (Only had a run of 16, so I'm not sure if it counts) and make it '55-'67 (165 mph). (Which deletes the Iso after deleting the DB4s.)

 

[Tornado]

Charger Daytona pulled those huge speeds using a gear combination that I would be shocked if Chrysler ever even offered for the street as a special order. Most you could get out of a street one with the Hemi was 160-ish, due to gearing.

 

[Liquid]

Charger Daytona could do 200 and was the first car ever to do it...

In NASCAR trim, yes. Not as a production vehicle.

But out of interest for anyone else to answer, were there any faster race cars than NASCAR automobiles during this time? I don't think F1 had topped 200mph by 1968; not sure about Le Mans.

 

[Tornado]

The 427 GT40s were going well over 200 by that point. Though they were also always trying to take off into the sky as a result.

 

[Liquid]

Ah, fair enough. Thought F1 and Le Mans were both reaching 190mph max by then.

 

[daan]

The 217 that the XJ220 attained was after modifications. It did 213 standard. If you are allowing mods, then the McLaren F1 did 240, but yo can't allow mods as then it's not "production."

Ferrari said the F40 would do 201, but according to the wiki, someone tested it to 202. The 959 is also incorrect.

The main issues with this are:-

What constitutes a "production" car?
Was the car standard when it did the speed?
Who tested the speed, and who verified it?

All of that means a definitive list cannot ever be attained.

 

[Liquid]

I thought the CTR was the first production car to reach 200. F40 was ~198mph from my memory. Certainly, the Yellowbird had a higher overall top speed.

 

[Tornado]

Plus, if you're allowing mods, Porsche offered a performance upgrade on the 959 that lifted its power to 515, and the top speed to 210. Does that count? And the Callaway turbocharged Corvettes from the 80's before the ZR1 came out were also technically a factory option. Not all of the Ruf CTRs were built from the start to be Ruf CTRs and were instead converted 930s, so what about them?

 

[Slash]

Charger Daytona pulled those huge speeds using a gear combination that I would be shocked if Chrysler ever even offered for the street as a special order. Most you could get out of a street one with the Hemi was 160-ish, due to gearing.

According to some sources around the net the street version was and is capable of near 180mph so I wouldn't put it out of the question just yet. I wouldn't doubt Dodge built some one-off, dealer-only options that had the correct gearing. The Superbird was about 160 like you suggested.

The highest speed in Nascar was 201mph set by Bobby Isaac, beating Buddy Bakers 200mph top speed in the same car. The highest speed the car has EVER reached was 217.368mph. Many of these records are still valid today.

Considering the Nascar version could do 217, almost 20 mph higher than the highest speed on a Nascar track, if the 180mph claims in the street version are true then I could see maybe that extra 20mph coming into play and it hitting 200 in the street version.

Of course VERY VERY tall gearing would be needed.

The 427 GT40s were going well over 200 by that point. Though they were also always trying to take off into the sky as a result.

Street versions?

In NASCAR trim, yes. Not as a production vehicle.

I'm not entirely sure on that one.