Another Yankee with a twin-turbocharged V8, the SSC Tuatara has been the root of some speed record controversy. Five years ...

Other top sellers from the Broad Arrow Las Vegas Auction include a well-preserved 1962 Mercedes-Benz 300SL Roadster, which ...

The French car company says it will be the fastest, most powerful, and most expensive car in the world. The Chiron's speed remains to be seen, but will be capped at 260 miles per hour for road use.

The first Bugatti Veyron restored under the brand's La Maison Pur Sang program (sort of like an extremely high-end ...

Living with one of the world’s fastest cars in your garage must be difficult—unless you own a runway. Like having one of the most expensive bottles of whisky in your cabinet, you know that you’ll ...

Land speed records are hardly a new phenomenon; the first such mark of 39.34 miles per hour was set by Frenchman Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat in an electric Jeantaud Duc carriage way back in 1898. That ...

Mate immediately gets stuck into the CC850’s world first gearbox, a 90kg box of tricks with nine speeds and multiple ratio ...

The YangWang U9 Xtreme (formerly the YangWang U9 Track Edition) just blew the whole competition out of the water. Forget about acceleration for a moment, the U9 Xtreme just hit a top speed of 308.4 ...

The automotive industry can trace its roots back to 1885, when Carl Benz developed the Benz Patent Motor Car. At this time, overall top speeds weren't much of a focus — all that mattered was a better ...

Twenty years ago, Bugatti set the world production car top speed record with the then-new Veyron, at 253.81 mph. Just two years later, Washington-based SSC—a company which hadn’t even been around a ...