Many people wonder what the fastest cars or bikes in the world are, and it’s a fair question because these vehicles break known boundaries of what is capable in vehicle engineering. These vehicles can break top speeds of over 200 miles per hour. Let alone the acceleration of these vehicles which is out of this world. Anyway, let me get the big hitter. The fastest production (Factory model sold to the public) car is the SSC Tuatara, hitting a top speed of over 331+ miles per hour. This is just the fastest it’s gone not even the fastest it can go! The fastest production motorcycle in the world is the Kawasaki Ninja H2R with a top speed of 248 miles per hour which is RIDICULOUS for a bike. Now, other theoretically faster vehicles have been run in simulations but these two are the only ones that have actually done it.
SSC TUATARA
Starting off, I’d like to talk about how far vehicle production has come, In 1894, the 12 mph Benz Velo was created, this was the first mass-produced car ever! Now 100 years later, we have cars like the SSC Tuatara, which hit speeds of up to
331mph! Now, it is taking the title of being the fastest production vehicle on the planet. This vehicle has a 1750hp engine and has incredible engineering feats built into it. The car’s aero creates an immense downforce and along with it’s extreme engine and light frame, all play a role in this car’s top speed. It is an absolutely phenomenal car and this record is soon to be broken again.
KAWASAKI NINJA H2R
Similar to the Tuatara, this car has quite a history, Kawasakis H2 production began in the 70s with the H2 MK4, a 748cc 2-cylinder engine that was considered extreme for its time. Little did the people of that time know, that the definition of “extreme” was about to be blown out of proportion in the next 50 years. The next big H2 that Kawasaki produced was the Ninja ZX-14R, a 1400cc powered bike that led to these bikes becoming more popular. Finally, in 2015, Kawasaki came out with the Ninka H2R, a non-street legal race bike that hit speeds of 248mph, ON. A. BIKE. This completely destroyed the competition and this bike still holds the title for being the fastest motorcycle ever produced. With a 1000cc, 310hp engine, and extreme aero added to the bike for assistance when moving at high speeds and racing, this is groundbreaking for moto engineering. I’d like to mention its street-legal brother, the Kawasaki Ninja H2 (The R basically just means it’s a race bike for the H2R) This bike is not nearly as powerful as the H2R but is still a ridiculous bike.
HONORABLE MENTIONS
Now there are some other absolutely ridiculous cars, I will go over a few of them here quickly. First of all, the Tuatara isn’t the fastest car ever made, that title would go to the THRUST SSC, which has a blistering speed of 763 mph! Now the reason I didn’t mention this vehicle in my article because it is not a production vehicle, although, there is a production vehicle that recently broke the 0-400 kph record, this is the
Koenigsegg Agrera RS which is in my opinion one of the greatest cars ever created that is in production. Some other cars that are next in line to beat the Tuatara’s top speed are the Bugatti Chiron supersport, the Hennesey Venom GT, and the Koenigsegg Jesko Absolut. All of these cars are considered hypercars and also have broken many records but none of them have reached the Tuatara’s ridiculous speed of 331 mph.
In conclusion, the SSC Tuatara and the Kawasaki Ninja H2R are the fastest-produced land vehicles that are sold to the public breaking our commonly known boundaries of top speed. I’d also like to address some terms that may be confusing to others, “cc” is the size of an engine in cubic centimetres, this unit is typically used in motorcycles because of the smaller engines they possess due to their smaller size. “HP” represents horsepower which is used to determine the base power of an engine excluding external factors like friction, air resistance, etc. Motorcycles have much smaller horsepower than cars but in comparison to their weight, a motorcycle with a horsepower of 310 like the Ninja H2R may seem small for a car but for a motorcycle, it is an insane amount of power. Now looking back at the history of these vehicles, we can only assume that more powerful and faster vehicles will be created in the future. You can only wonder what these vehicles will be but I’m more than excited to see what is to come.
