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It includes "production" cars, which are vehicles offered for sale to the public, legally able to drive on public roads, and typically mass-produced identical i

It includes "production" cars, which are vehicles offered for sale to the public, legally able to drive on public roads, and typically mass-produced identical items rather than one-offs for each customer (though this may be only a few dozen vehicles). It does not include dragsters or other custom vehicles, which may be equipped with nitrous injectors, non-street-legal equipment, or other major concessions to daily driving. This was apparent in Friday's episode of <strike>Top Gear</strike> Grand Tour where Hammond raced a Porsche 918 hybrid supercar against the Bugatti Veyron, and then against "some old Nissan van." Which (as you may have guessed, sorry for the spoilers ahead) happened to be souped up with a 1900 HP engine, and easily beat the supercar. It's also apparent when looking at this electric project car: https://phys.org/news/2016-06-electric-car-world.html https://phys.org/news/2016-06-electric-car-world.html which, at 1.5 seconds, seems likely to approach the limit of wheeled vehicles.

semi-extrinsic 10y ago
Apart from crazy souped-up dragracers, there's also several "non-production" cars that are actually available for purchase and which can be driven on normal roads and are faster. E.g. the Ariel Atom 500, or some of the Lingenfelter- or Hennesey-modified Corvettes. Tesla defines "production cars" to exclude cars built in very small volumes, for obvious reasons (otherwise Tesla wouldn't be "fastest"). In related news, the Tautology Association of America has offered Elon a complementary lifetime membership.
- LeifCarrotson 10y ago
  It would be a tautology if they defined it as the fastest car and excluded only the cars which were faster than it. No car produced in greater volumes is quicker, and many which are produced in smaller volumes and/or for a lot more money are slower. That's a significant fact that's not diminished by shed-built customs.
ra1n85 10y ago
It was a Nissan Patrol. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Patrol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Patrol A lot of the mods used to increase power considerably also decrease the MTBF of many components within vehicles.
- burger_moon 10y ago
  With a GTR power plant. A pretty awesome sleeper if it weren't for the 24inch Mickey ts sticking out of it.
  - LeifCarrotson 10y ago
    Those did kind of give it away, but how else are you going to apply that power to the road?

semi-extrinsic 10y ago

Apart from crazy souped-up dragracers, there's also several "non-production" cars that are actually available for purchase and which can be driven on normal roads and are faster. E.g. the Ariel Atom 500, or some of the Lingenfelter- or Hennesey-modified Corvettes. Tesla defines "production cars" to exclude cars built in very small volumes, for obvious reasons (otherwise Tesla wouldn't be "fastest"). In related news, the Tautology Association of America has offered Elon a complementary lifetime membership.

LeifCarrotson 10y ago
It would be a tautology if they defined it as the fastest car and excluded only the cars which were faster than it. No car produced in greater volumes is quicker, and many which are produced in smaller volumes and/or for a lot more money are slower. That's a significant fact that's not diminished by shed-built customs.

ra1n85 10y ago

It was a Nissan Patrol. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Patrol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Patrol A lot of the mods used to increase power considerably also decrease the MTBF of many components within vehicles.

burger_moon 10y ago
With a GTR power plant. A pretty awesome sleeper if it weren't for the 24inch Mickey ts sticking out of it.
- LeifCarrotson 10y ago
  Those did kind of give it away, but how else are you going to apply that power to the road?