It had to happen. The 987-horsepower Bugatti Veyron couldn't hold onto the title of World's Fastest Production Car forever, now, could it? Enter the 1183-horsepower Ultimate Aero Twin Turbo, built by Washington State-based upstate Shelby Supercars (very definitely not affiliated with Carroll Shelby's Shelby Automobiles). Following the oh-so-stringent dictums of the Guinness World Records team, the $655,000 two-seat supercar (looking for the world like a Lamborghini Diablo kit-car) made two pedal-to-the-metal runs down a closed-off two-mile stretch of Washington highway, one in each direction, recording 257.11 mph the first time and 254.55 mph the second, for an average of (cue drumroll) 255.83 mph &mdash a not-insignificant 2.83 mph better than the poky Veyron's non-Guinness-verified 253 mph. Take that, Molsheim!
Source: jalopnik.com.
Photos courtesy of Shelby Supercars.
Shelby Supercars Ultimate Aero Twin Turbo
