US engineers have
developed the world’s fastest car with a top speed of an incredible 435
kilometres per hour.
US firm Hennessey’s
Venom GT set the new record for the fastest car in the world during a test run
at the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida.
Venom beat the previous
best record of 431km/h set by Bugatti Veyron Super Sport.
Venom GT is a stretched
Lotus Exige with a 7.0-litre, 927kW twin-turbo V8 wedged between its axles.
The record is
impressive as test driver Brian Smith started from rest, broke the record and
stopped on a 5.1-kilometre stretch of tarmac rather than using a high-speed
oval to give the car a running start, Drive.com reported.
“If we could run on an
8-mile (12.8km) oval we could go faster than that,” Smith said.
However, Bugatti will
retain its place in the Guinness book of records, the report said.
The independently
verified Hennessey speed will not go into the book as the Venom could only be
driven one way on the NASA landing strip.
The book requires cars
to make runs in two directions to account for variables, including gradients
and wind direction.
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