Hennessey Venom GT Becomes World's Fastest Production Car

It's no time-traveling DeLorean, but the Hennessey Venom GT sure is fast.

The American sports car unofficially claimed the title of world's fastest production car, having reached a speed of 270.49 mph earlier this month at the Kennedy Space Center. The Hennessey Venom GT surpassed the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport's previous record of 269.86 mph.

NASA allowed the Texas-based manufacturer Hennessey Performance Engineering to use its 3.2-mile-long space-shuttle-landing runway for the speed test, ensuring that the sports car would have enough room to accelerate. The run was made over 2.4 miles, which left the car eight-tenths of a mile to come to a stop. Read more...