SSC Tuatara | Mitchell Townsend

“No road car I’ve seen pulls like that.”
-Mitchell Townsend
Racelogic / VBox Technician
SSC North America has reached another milestone in top-speed testing, surpassing the previous world record top speed set by the SSC Tuatara in January 2021.
American hypercar collector and Tuatara customer Larry Caplin piloted his SSC Tuatara with Johnny Bohmer Proving Grounds at Space Florida’s LLF, Kennedy Space Center Merritt, Florida on May 14th, 2022, where he previously broke the speed record for world’s fastest production vehicle on the 2.3 mile stretch of runway. A top speed of 295.0 mph (474.8 km/h) was recorded by data and performance logging firm Racelogic with dual VBOX GNSS systems onboard the Tuatara, as well as a Life Racing GPS unit for additional data acquisition. Present during the top speed run was Racelogic technician Mitchell Townsend and independent analyst Robert Mitchell, ensuring extra levels of transparency and validation measures that SSC North America has integrated into its testing process.
Visit sscnorthamerica.com for more information.

[@rjung_ch]

Well, that sure rocks! Super news, happy you guys are putting down the numbers, great stuff. Thanks!

[@ayushkumarsahoo1506]

We are waiting for so long do it ssc 304+ ml 👍💯

[@coolquitepowerful]

Thanks

[@patriotfromthenoket6141]

So much better and faster than the F5

[@fan3oy]

Prove it.

[@2A-Jake]

Please take it to where Bugatti did their high speed test and hit 300mph. Would love to come see this top it... Been a huge fan for several years, would love to see the shop! We are usually in the area a couple times every summer.

[@43ten43]

They would, but Bugatti/VW Group won't let anyone go there... they don't want someone else breaking the record :/

[@RicTone]

Beast of a car. I would buy this over any other hyper car

[@simp2234]

@Smoke King ikr

[@wickedhouston5538]

@Smoke King its faster than your honda civic

[@wickedhouston5538]

@Smoke King did you have to buy 5 because they all broke down?

[@HassanShareef_]

Incredible!

[@captain_context9991]

Notice how they call it a "Roadcar" now. Rather than a production car. Because it isnt a production car.

[@simp2234]

Isn't in production.... Many year 1 car great job ssc

[@captain_context9991]

@@simp2234
Do you think its a "great job" that they only have 1 car? I would say thats a huge failure.

[@simp2234]

@@captain_context9991 Exceptly all they did is a dumb configurations app with not a single customer car is a shame

[@captain_context9991]

@@simp2234
Well... This is a customer car. What they dont have is a prototype or a development car. Im not sure why they still only have ONE car after, what... 2 years of claiming woooorld records. I can only guess most customers pulled out when they got busted faking their spectacularly misleading world record claims. -- Which they have been desperately trying to redeem ever since. With multiple runs every other month.
Then their car, THIS car, got severely damaged after it fell off a transport. So I guess they fixed it. But yeah. These people dont have a car factory. They are not a registered car manufacture. They do not build cars. This car was designed and built in Italy at a LeMans racecar company called Podium Advanced Technologies. Which is great. They are experts. But they dont tell us that, do they. They want this to be seen as an all-american "hypercar" while being built by other people and is running on kit-car number plates.
This is their only car so far. So obviously ZERO crash testing. No emissions certificate, no federalisation of any kind. And therefore not a production car by any stretch of the imagination.

[@simp2234]

@@captain_context9991 exceptly they stilll got time to laugh at konisegegg and bugatti . yikes

[@kennethward2537]

This car can go much faster then what we saw now on the videoclip; it has always gone faster then what many expected ; The fear of Americans beating the Euros was just to hard to fathom. I feel that media hype around the speedo was unjustified. Give Euro cars their due, sure in terms of perfection and drive the American are just as good. Maybe not getting the same media attention as their European counterparts because they don't do mass production. Would I buy the TUATARA ? YES !

[@tsangrickykahoCh]

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[@kamleshdaya3214]

CANT U FIND A LONGER RUNWAY SO WE CAN SEE THE FINAL TRUE TOP SPEED THIS CAR CAN ACHIEVE???🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

[@sabithhussain2611]

I really believed these guys were legit, which is why I turned on the notification and now they have proven it

[@THESLlCK]

we already saw this clip

[@43ten43]

We already downvoted this comment.

[@einautofan6685]

The target is 500kph!😎

[@einautofan6685]

@Robert Sanderson Yes, i have no doubts!👍

[@ZoneTelevision]

First !

[@otaviosilva93]

Go of Nevada please

[@ggpce]

u guys need more space, bc this thing will do 320+ given twice the distance and near perfect conditions

[@dennyoliver069]

the killer

[@simp2234]

U mean downforce

[@joaogames2349]

Owo