Determining which car is the fastest in the world can get complicated quickly. Here are why various cars claim they are the fastest.

There was also an American challenger to the fastest quarter-mile claim: the incredible SSC Ultimate Aero TT. The car was created by engineer Jerod Shelby, who founded SSC in West Richland ...

A car dealer named Malcolm Campbell and his 350-horsepower Sunbeam car named Blue Bird, hoped to use the seven miles of ...

Then come a pair of 24,000W motors via French outfit Rage Mechanics, who developed a bespoke setup to power the The Turbo to ...

One September day back in 2007 on a stretch of closed highway in Washington, the SSC Ultimate Aero TT was briefly able to take the title of fastest street-legal car in the world for reaching a 257 ...

While the standard Ultimate Aero model wasn't the fastest car in the world soon after it released — that record belonged to the legendary Bugatti Veyron, which set a top speed of 253.81 MPH in ...

These photos of the smashed SSC were sent in by a reader. @ederlsx “That car was part of automotive history and also had an amazing story behind its lead up to the 2007 Guinness World Record and ...

Without a doubt, it's the fastest-accelerating car you can find today, set to hit 0-60 in just under 1.4 seconds. Some tests even found it going as low as 1.38, completely blowing everything else ...

At the end of the day, the “fastest” car depends on how you define it. When you’re looking at the quickest car in the world, are you looking at top speed, 0-60 acceleration, or quarter-mile ...

Last October, the Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 set a top speed of 233 mph on consecutive runs around a closed track. That’s not the fastest street-legal production car in the world: the Bugatti Chiron ...