SSC Tuatara.. the fastest car in the world

Giants always compete for the title of the fastest car in the world, but the SSC Tuatara won the title not because it managed to break the record, but because it beat itself by breaking its own record, to be the fastest supercar twice in a row, one year apart.

SSC Tuatara Specifications:

The Tuatara is the result of a collaboration between super sports car design and development company SSC and famous car designer Jason Castriota, who previously worked on iconic and famous cars such as the Ferrari P4/5, 599 Ferrari, 612 Kappa, GranTurismo from Maserati and Hyperion from Rolls-Royce,  And all of them are supercars, one of the fastest cars in the world.

 The development of the Tuatara car took about ten years, as it first appeared in 2011 in the form of a new concept, and work continued on it for seven years until August 2018, when the first prototype appeared, and then it was officially launched in 2020 to break previous records for supercars.

Despite the slight differences between the prototype and the final version of the Tuatara, they are similar in design outlines and basic touches, as the final version of the car retained the distinctive V-shaped front, along with headlights with an unconventional design, and the shape of the front air vent with short wings  that extends slightly to cover part of the rear hatch.

 The final design of the car came with a larger number of air vents as well as small wings in the lower part of the car in order to improve the aerodynamic advantages in it.

 It is worth noting that the SSC company paid a lot of attention to the aerodynamics and the final weight of this vehicle, as it was planning from the beginning to make it the fastest car in the world, so the exterior structure was designed entirely of carbon fiber with glossy touches to give an aesthetic character to its design, along with a set of small wings  Carefully distributed around the rear and body of the vehicle so it can better handle the air pressure at higher speeds.

Breaking records :

The Tuatara's supercar crash was controversial.  In February 2020, SCC claimed that it was able to break the record and reach a speed of 508 km / h, and this was the result of two experiments to break the record, in the first of which the car reached 484 km / h and in a second to 532 km / h.

 But this did not convince many car enthusiasts around the world, which led them to doubt this matter until the company retracted it, saying that it was a malfunction in the external accelerometers it used.

 But SCC's attempts to break the record did not stop, as it repeated the ball again in October of the same year, but this time in the presence of a group of car experts and journalists around the world, and this time its car managed to reach a speed of 450 km / h, breaking the record  For the Agera RS, which had achieved a speed of 445 km/h.

 Although it was able to break the record for a competing car, this was not enough for SCC, which was confident in its car and its ability to break the speed barrier of 480 km / h to become the fastest car in the world, so it tried again in May 2022 in the presence of a group of  Senior visitors such as company CEO Jerrod Shelby and racing expert Mitchell Townsend also used a combination of state-of-the-art hardware and VBOX GNSS radars to collect data and track speed.