5. SSC Tuatara (283 MPH)
Every automaker has a poster car, and Shelby Supercar’s (SSC) is the Tuatara. For a car that comes with a price tag of $1.9 million, anything less than its current specs would have been somehow unacceptable. SSC found itself in some hot controversy last year after it claimed that the Tuatara broke the speed record by reaching 331.15 mph. The American automaker was later accused of putting out false information as the video of the record was false, and there was another failed attempt to reach those speeds. SSC eventually admitted officially that indeed the Tuatara supercar did not reach the originally claimed speeds of 331 or 301 mph during its top-speed run in Nevada last year. An excerpt from the announcement read “We were truly heartbroken as a company to learn that we did not reach this feat, and we are in an ongoing effort to break the 300 MPH barrier transparently, officially, and undoubtedly.” With that being said, the SSC Tuatara still remains one of the world’s most powerful hypercars in 2022, with a top speed of 283 mph coming from a 5.9-liter flat-plane crank twin-turbocharged V8 engine, which helps it produce a best-in-class 1350 hp when on 91 octane fuel and up to a whopping 1750 hp when running on E85 ethanol. The car is also capable of from 0 to 60mph in just 2.5 seconds.
6. Bugatti Veyron Super Sport (268 MPH)
In the year of its market launch, the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport made it into the Guinness World Records as the fastest street-legal production car in the world with a top speed of 268 mph. In 2022, the Veyron Super Sport remains one of the fastest cars in the world. The hypercar features an 8.0-liter quad-turbocharged W16 engine which produces an insane 1,200 hp and 1,106 lb-ft of torque at 3000-5000rpm. That isn’t all, the car is capable of accelerating from 0-60 mph in approximately 2.4 seconds and it has a base price of $2 million USD.
