Before there were companies like Koenigsegg and Hennessey vying to dethrone the Bugatti Veyron as the world's fastest car, something Koenigsegg finally achieved last November when one of its Agera RS ...
Thirteen years after it made a name for itself with its first world speed record, SSC has done it again, absolutely blowing the field away with a new official world speed record. On Saturday, October ...
The vehicle was on its way to Florida in April for another record attempt when high winds in Utah caused its carrier to flip. The Drive can report that the SSC Tuatara world record car was heavily ...
SSC North America, a manufacturer of low-volume super sports cars, announced today that one of its cars has set a new top speed for production models worldwide. The company said that hypercar ...
It took more than a decade of development and plenty of skepticism, but the SSC Tuatara finally became the world’s fastest production car earlier this month with a 316 mph average run in Nevada.
Odds are pretty good you’ve never heard of SSC. That’s not because they’re new to the scene, though: SSC North America, as it’s formally known, has been around for more than two decades, having been ...
On January 17, while many of us had our eyes glued to the NFL playoff games, Dr. Larry Caplin focused on a 2.3-mile stretch of concrete at the Kennedy Space Center’s Johnny Bohmer Proving Grounds in ...
I'm not sure what it's like to attempt a comeback from one of the wildest automotive PR blunders of all time. I'm not sure I could do it, particularly as I, as podcast host, was an unwitting and ...
For a company aiming to build the world’s fastest production car, Shelby SuperCars (SSC) has kept a low profile. SSC announced its Tuatara in 2011, but the supercar has only made a handful of public ...
In November 2017, Christian von Koenigsegg visited Nevada to watch Koenigsegg factory test driver Niklas Lilja challenge the 267.8-mph record speed for the world's fastest car set by a Bugatti Veyron ...