The battle for having the fastest cars has been going on for many years between carmakers. Bugatti and Hennessey are some of the most frequent title holders of the fastest cars in the world. In this article we will go through the six fastest cars in the world as of 2020, we won't be discussing any concept cars or outlandish rocket-powered vehicles, we are talking strictly about production cars.

Bugatti was the first car maker to hit the huge milestone of a 300 MPH top speed with the Bugatti Chiron Super Sport in 2020, we have noticed that Bugatti likes to hold some of the records when it comes to speed and being an iconic supercar, and they have been very successful at doing so!

Hennessey is also a huge competitor here, the Hennessey Venom is a very modified version of the Lotus Exige which was at one point one of the fastest cars in the world. One question that commonly comes across the minds of many is how does Hennessey afford to create these expensive world record-breaking machines, for example, Bugatti is owned by the Volkswagen Group, which owns car brands such as Audi, Bentley and Lamborghini. Which explains how they can put so much money and resources into making these speedy machines, on the other hand, Hennessey is an American tuning house, which modifies cars like Ferrari, Porsche and Lotus. But the question still lingers where do they get the money from?

In 2020 a massive competitor appeared the SSC Tuatara, the Tuatara was made by the formerly known Shelby SuperCars. You are probably familiar with Shelby vehicles, yeah they made the Tuatara, THE FASTEST CAR IN THE WORLD. 

Here is the list of the six fastest cars in the world starting from the slowest to fastest:

6. Bugatti Veyron Super Sport (268 MPH)

5. Hennessey Venom GT (270 MPH)

4. Koenigsegg Agera RS (278 MPH)

3. Hennessey Venom F5 (301 MPH)

2. Bugatti Chiron Sport (304 MPH)

1. SSC Tuatara (316 MPH)

You can see that there are small differences until the Tuatara doing 12MPH more than the Bugatti Chiron Sport, yet there is a problem... Of course when a carmaker announces they have accomplished such a huge milestone of being the fastest car in the world. Car enthusiasts jump in and analyze the record to make sure everything's adding up.

In this case, things did not add up, people started noticing that the speedometer used in the official world record video was showing incorrect speeds. People started analyzing the footage used in the video, by measuring the distance and trying to calculate the speeds of the car. This was a huge controversy in the car world... SSC having to publicly apologize and stated that they will do another run with the tuatara sometime soon. 

 Well, the tuatara was taken out for another top speed run on the 12th of December 2020, unfortunately, the car was only able to reach 252 MPH due to mechanical issues. Another top speed run is planned sometime in 2021, yet it is very unlikely the car will be able to do the speed it claimed to have done earlier in 2020.

So we think it is only fair that we keep the Bugatti Chiron Sport on top holding the title as the world's fastest car until we can get an official, approved world record holder.

Some serious contenders are coming up shortly for the number one spot such as Koenigsegg Jesko, Dagger GT and Devel Sixteen. The only problem with these cars we just mentioned are just concept cars or are near production, which means we may never actually see any of them take on the top speed record.

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