Ask yourself for a car with 1817hp and weighs less than a 720s, that's the time you gonna get. The horsepower will be limited most likely under 70mph. After that, it'll spin it's way up the number chart

More Aspark Owl than C8, but I agree

where's the c8 in this?

It came out in this exact style way before the C8 and Owl. but go off

There will certainly be more scrutiny.

How could such a straight-forward thing as top speed measurement get so wrong with SSC.

While i cannot prove that the Tuatara 331mph lie was deliberately falsified and manipulated by SSC(the most likely scenario) there will be no repeat of that from Hennessey because it will be independently tested by peeps on the ground to verify the top speed attempt.

you can't prove that they deliberately did it. But certainly you can prove that it was false =)

I definitely can't but the digital speedo display being blurred during the run was dodgy in itself and apparently the speedo overread by approx 7-8% anyway in previous tests which is pathetic given it's 2020 and the hypercar is worth almost $2m.

Plus they cheated like 12 year old Youtubers back when the "2.x second 100-200kph" video came up. There was a second video where somebody sat next to Shelby... well, what can I say, the advertised video with the alleged time had a high-pitched engine sound :'D

Ha yeah that's when the bullshit started because factoring in the 7-8% speedo error which means using a stopwatch from 67-134 mph by the digital speedo one gets 3.55 sec which is only a second out lol

BTW Hennessey's claim of 0-200 km/h in under 5 sec would be possible with slicks on a prepped dragstrip but impossible on the street with legal tyres.

Glad someone else figured it out

"Hennessey's claim of 0-200 km/h in under 5 sec would be possible with slicks on a prepped dragstrip but impossible on the street with legal tyres."

Yup, especially when they only claim a 3 second 0-100kph... 2 seconds for 100-200kph afterwards? Must suddenly develop 3 tons of downforce xD

For more context a 1750whp AWD Huracan does 0-100 km/h in 1.76 sec 100-200km/h in 2.19 sec and 200-300km/h in 3.70 sec on a prepped dragstrip with slicks so there's no chance of Hennessey's claim. That being said i suspect it should be capable of cracking the 300mph barrier.

Hennessey saw the 0-300kph claim for the more powerful/AWD/electric Lotus Evija and said "Yeah, we can beat that with RWD, street tires, and turbos..."

Ha yeah and speaking of the Evija, Lotus claim 200-300km/h in 3 secs flat. Problem is every 200-300km/h pass by modified 2000hp(same as Evija) turbo cars i've seen fall into the 3.6-3.8 sec range. Is Lotus telling us bullshit or is it generating more power than they claim?

Yes but the evija is electric and people underestimate the sheer insane torque electric vehicles create... it may have 2000hp but the torque must be way more (uncertain of exact figures) but as it has awd and well over 2000n/m of torque I would say lotus’s claim may very well be accurate... we’ll have to wait and see.

@ everyone in this reply section, we have no proof that ssc cheated, and we have no proof that they didn't cheat. This is what happens when someone rushes things. (Reminds me of the covid-19 vaccene)