Hennessey Sees Koenigsegg As Main Competitor After Bugatti Says No To Future Speed Records

For the last few years, there’s been a light-hearted ding-dong between a few car companies as to who’d crack 300mph first. It’s largely been a three-way fight, with Bugatti, Hennessey and Koenigsegg all putting irons in the fire. SSC has chimed in recently, claiming its Tuatara could be one of the first to hit the consecrated velocity of three hundy.

A lot of the time this felt like talk – pre-fight hype – and brought with it many, many doubters. Large pockets of the industry and internet claimed it wasn’t possible; the tyres would explode, there’d be nowhere to do it, and if you did find somewhere you’d need a gazillion horsepower to make it happen.

Then, out of nowhere, Bugatti smashed through the 300mph barrier on 2 August 2019 when Andy Wallace hit a vmax of 304.77mph. Straight after this momentous achievement, Bugatti boss Stephan Winkelmann announced Bugatti would withdraw from the competition to produce the fastest serial production cars. Talk about a mic drop.

ricks0me - 9/5/2019 5:11:25 PM

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Yugo is the dark horse in this race

MDarringer - 9/5/2019 8:53:49 PM

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Yay two crappy kit car makers are gonna duke it out

CANADIANCOMMENTS - 9/6/2019 8:57:20 PM

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It is a silly contest now. So are street cars with 700+ hp. Now cars will be touching 1,000hp in the next go around. Most are not 4wd either. Someone will get hurt. Perhaps things need to be limited to 500hp or so and everyone works on aero, weight, and handling instead. The Ring separates good cars from bad, the Nardo bowl, not so much.

MDarringer - 9/6/2019 10:30:34 PM

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1000% agree.