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[hariseldon]

UPDATE:

We've been HAD! Fake and Gay

Internet sleuths take down the SSC Tuatara's 316-mph speed record

America's Shelby Supercars has more or less abandoned its world's fastest car claim after eagle-eyed YouTubers pointed out a number of embarrassing, possibly costly discrepancies in its video of the SSC Tuatara making a claimed 316-mph two-way run.

newatlas.com

ORIGINAL POST:

American supercar SSC Tuatara just hit 331 mph on a NV highway and is now fastest production car in the world

There's a new king of the road.

notthebee.com

I have asked my wife to get me one for Christmas but I suspect she’s going to disappoint me.

 

[THE:MILKMAN]

Pfft. Still not as quick as my old work van down a Norfolk B-Road.

 

[Pagusas]

at that speed i assume a pot hole would be deadly?

 

[papersleeves]

at that speed i assume a pot hole would be deadly?

Let's just say chance would not be in your favor that day.

 

[and 3 others]

Bullshit, that says KM/H. ***looks closer*** MOTHER OF GOD!

 

[MaestroMike]

Looks like a batmobile.

 

[Birdo]

 

[petran79]

Subwoofer wont fit. Not buying

 

[DESTROYA]

Never new they made tires rated for that speed.

 

[M1chl]

Look slightly like Koeniggseg with interior styling. However massive props to team.

 

[cormack12]

Hmm, cars are approaching my walking speed. Might be worth getting one soon

 

[DragoonWalker]

Impressive. All the more unfortunate then, that it looks like every other supercar that came out in the last 10 years.

 

[Jezbollah]

fuck me.

 

[TrainedRage]

Add wings?

 

[Slings and Arrows]

"Made in America"

Speed in a straight line: 331MPH
Speed around a corner: 10Mph...on its roof.

 

[keraj37]

532 km/h - here you metric peasants.

 

[Slings and Arrows]

532 km/h - here you metric peasants.

Transcend your pauper ways and join the mixed bag of measurements of the British:

Cars are in MPH, length in Metres
Weight in Stones and ingredients in KG
Beer in Pints, spirits in ml and Litres
Milk in Pints, water in ml and litres
Cock measurement in Inch, building measurements in mm
And temperature is always measured in the God given Celsius, none of this Fahrenheit puffery

 

[xrnzaaas]

One of the tyre companies needs to build better tires specifically for this car, because the performance was clearly there to go even faster. Or maybe they just need a longer straight.

 

[DarkestHour]

"Made in America"

Speed in a straight line: 331MPH
Speed around a corner: 10Mph...on its roof.

That was a good joke back in the 1990s maybe but now is really ignorant.

 

[Slings and Arrows]

That was a good joke back in the 1990s maybe but now is really ignorant.

I have no idea how to respond to this. Did you just #currentyear virtue signal over a car?

 

[DarkestHour]

I have no idea how to respond to this. Did you just #currentyear virtue signal over a car?

Sure, whatever the hell that means.

 

[MrS]

It's no Fiat Panda

 

[manfestival]

I have no idea how to respond to this. Did you just #currentyear virtue signal over a car?

It's not really a virtue signal(not sure if you know what virtue signaling is). He is just saying your joke is old. In other words, applies more to an older Mustang(muscle car) than it does to anything really from the past decade.

 

[Slings and Arrows]

It's not really a virtue signal(not sure if you know what virtue signaling is). He is just saying your joke is old. In other words, applies more to an older Mustang(muscle car) than it does to anything really from the past decade.

The virtue signal bit was just internet words to tie in with the current year.

I wasn't being serious either. So lets park this (see what i did there? car puns) and get back to the car stuff.

The Bugatti Veyron used to chew through tyres every 20 mins at top speed, drink fuel like a freight-train and had two engines. Fair cop to the yanks for building this little beast. What's the RRP?

 

[OnThePathToWisdom]

532 km/h - here you metric peasants.

Obligatory

 

[HellforLeather]

Obligatory

 

[Cunth]

Going in a straight line is so awesome

 

[manfestival]

The virtue signal bit was just internet words to tie in with the current year.

I wasn't being serious either. So lets park this (see what i did there? car puns) and get back to the car stuff.

The Bugatti Veyron used to chew through tyres every 20 mins at top speed, drink fuel like a freight-train and had two engines. Fair cop to the yanks for building this little beast. What's the RRP?

Your own mistake and apparently misunderstanding. Next time maybe think it through first?

 

[MetalAlien]

looks cool too!

 

[SinDelta]

It really does look like a batmobile.

 

[Pagusas]

Year Month Day you fucking heathens.

 

[Kenpachii]

Wouldn't even sit next towards the guy even if they paid me. If a tire pops its gg you.

But that's pretty darn insane tho.

 

[RedVIper]

532km/h mother of god.

 

[Tschumi]

It is so fucking cheesy that they get the hulk to drive the car wearing reflective lenses. Cool car but no cache, gooo McClaren!

Edit: it also makes me wanna hurl for cheesiness that they stretch the video when the car starts getting real quick -_-

Edit: okay the hulk is like the owner or something.

 

[and 3 others]

Year Month Day you fucking heathens.

Ah yes, It twas our year of the Lord, two-thousand twenty...

 

[V4skunk]

It was going down hill and didn't even set an official Guinness record like Bugatti with the Chiron SS.
Looks like the Koenigsegg Jesko will smoke it and do a proper Guinness run.

 

[MrTroubleMaker]

wow that is fast!

 

[ChickenSandwichlover69]

I remember seeing this car concept way back in like.. 2011? when I was a kid.

Now years later, today it broke the world record. Wow. I thought this car will never be real.

 

[MilkLizard]

Next gen rap cars

 

[slugbahr]

What's the RRP?

$1.05

 

[Liberty4all]

26 years ago or so me and a couple girls caught a ride with some guy who decided to go 225 km (140 mph) on the highway in his heavily modified sports car to show off to the hot the girls with me.. Was absolutely terrifying. I can’t imagine 300 mph plus

 

[eot]

Obligatory

I will say that feet and knots make sense in aviation. 100 ft is a more useful altitude difference than 100 m, and if you go 60 kts for one hour you travel 1° latitude / longitude.

 

[IDKFA]

Nice design, but pointless speed. You'd never get that fast on the roads or a race track (unless you longed for death).

 

[Spaceman292]

at that speed i assume a pot hole would be deadly?

Sounds like a perfectly flat road would be deadly in that thing

 

[GymWolf]

Meh, ssd inside ps5 is faster than that.

 

[hariseldon]

26 years ago or so me and a couple girls caught a ride with some guy who decided to go 225 km (140 mph) on the highway in his heavily modified sports car to show off to the hot the girls with me.. Was absolutely terrifying. I can’t imagine 300 mph plus

Yeah 300 would be pretty terrifying - fastest I've done is 135 in a Caterham R300 at Silverstone which was terrifying enough (cornering at 90 is pretty scary too). There's really nothing more fun than a fast car though - the scream of a well-tuned engine and that feeling of being glued to the seat by G-Force - that's basically crack for me.

 

[PanzerAzel]

at that speed i assume a pot hole would be deadly?

At that speed, the car would fly right over it. There’d be no time for the tire to drop.

 

[The Lunch Legend]

Year Month Day you fucking heathens.

 

[Whitecrow]

Legends say that it once hit a small bump in the road and the car is still orbiting the earth to this day

 

[SLoWMoTIoN]

If you were crash, you'd become a literal meat cube right?