Marc Basseng, the former GT1 world champion, set a new benchmark for speed last week in Germany, piloting an electric hypercar to a staggering 308.4 mph. Basseng described the achievement as quite ...

Matt Maran has had a passion for cars as long as he can remember. It began with racing games as a kid and evolved to reading car magazines from cover to cover and memorizing all the specs as a ...

So, we’re updating our list of the fastest cars in the world to show more wheeled lightning. For 2024, there’s a new number one in the race to go fastest. The competition also might be less relevant ...

The ZR1 is brutally fast, yes, but it's still remarkably composed, and it feels every bit as usable and refined as any of the other flavors of modern Corvette. The GTD, on the other hand, is a ...

Italian driver Fabio Barone wipes his forehead after breaking his own speed record on a ship, at the wheel of a Ferrari SF 90, on the flight deck of the Italian Navy aircraft carrier Nave Trieste, ...

RECAP: Most Asian markets retreated yesterday amid end-of-quarter repositioning by investors, after concerns about high valuations and mixed signals from US Federal Reserve officials on interest rates ...

We get under the skin of Nissan’s self-driving car programme and take a ride in an autonomous Nissan Leaf on UK roads ...

EVs are reaching hypercar speeds, raising questions about practicality, safety, and whether the horsepower race has gone too far.

BYD’s 2,220 kW fully electric hypercar Yangwang U9 Xtreme set a new world record of 496.22 kph at the ATP test site in Papenburg, Germany, on September 14, 2025.

YANGWANG, the luxury sub-brand of global new-energy vehicle (NEV) leader BYD, has set a new global production-car top-speed record of 496.22km/h at the ATP Automotive Testing Papenburg test track in ...

Bugatti’s Chiron Super Sport 300+ was the world’s official fastest production car with a top speed of 490.48km/h. But now Yangwang have claimed this record with a 496.22km/h run with their U9 Xtreme ...

This is a ranking of all new cars on sale in terms of top speed, starting with the slowest and finishing with the fastest, using their 0-60 time as a tiebreaker if any cars have the same top speed.