In just a few seconds, a car and its driver made history. Aboard an Italian naval aircraft carrier, driver Fabio Barone used the runway as a speedway, attempting to set a new record for fastest car on ...

Now it has gone (much) further and has defeated the Bugatti Chiron Supersport 300+, which in 2019 set the record that, until today, was at the top of the historical speed charts: 304.77 mph. The ...

308 mph, nearly 3,000 horsepower, built in China, and a hilarious name – meet the new fastest car in the world, BYD’s Yanwang U9 Extreme. How the Yanwang U9 Extreme Pulled It Off The secret behind ...

Last month, BYD's luxury brand Yangwang took the EV speed crown away from the Rimac Nevera with its 2,959 horsepower U9 Track/Special Edition. The car hit 293.54 miles per hour, but that simply wasn't ...

Michal studies Automotive Journalism at Coventry University in the UK, and has been writing for CarBuzz since March 2025. He was nominated for student culture piece of the year recently and has been ...

It’s official: the Yangwang U9 Xtreme (formerly called the Track Edition) is now the fastest production car in the world, having hit 308.4mph at ATP Papenburg’s high speed oval in Germany. Three ...

A NEW world's fastest car has been crowned to overtake the Bugatti Chiron - it may not be what you expect. This is also the first electric vehicle to claim the title of "fastest production car". BYD’s ...

There’s apparently a new top-speed sheriff in town. On September 14 at Germany’s ATP Automotive Testing Papenburg track, German sports car driver Marc Basseng Piloted the Yangwang U9 Xtreme hypercar ...

Move over, Bugatti! The new Chinese Yangwang U9 Xtreme electric hypercar just blasted its way to a staggering, 308.4 mph top speed on a German test track, seizing the “world’s fastest car” crown and ...

Car Dealership Tycoon puts you in the Roblox feet of... well, the owner of a car dealership. Players are tasked with building their dream car dealership, stocked with the fastest supercars. All-in-all ...

"Going faster, closer to 500kph is completely different, because the resistance working on the car is squared," he said, referring to the exponential increase in aerodynamic load that occurs at such ...

THIS is the moment the new world's fastest car hit its record breaking speed of 308mph. The Yangwang U9 Xtreme from BYD has now officially been crowned the new world's fastest car - and it's electric.