The Lotus Evija has officially rewritten the performance playbook. In a landmark road test conducted by Autocar, one of the most respected names in automotive journalism, the all-electric hypercar not ...

It isn't unheard of for today's fastest street-legal cars to reach top speeds of 250 mph or more. After an exhilarating ride like that, it's hard to imagine ever being able to drive 65 mph again, let ...

The new Yangwang U9 Xtreme hypercar set a new global production-car speed record. In a test, it reached 308 miles per hour. It took the lead from the Bugatti Chiron Super Sport 300+. The Yangwang ...

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 ...

Land speed records are hardly a new phenomenon; the first such mark of 39.34 miles per hour was set by Frenchman Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat in an electric Jeantaud Duc carriage way back in 1898. That ...

In some ways, the top speed of a performance car is arguably less important than in decades past. Many affordable cars can now hit speeds that would result in their drivers losing their licenses if ...

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 ...

It has been less than a month since Chinese performance brand Yangwang claimed to have set an outright speed record for a production electric vehicle with its U9 Xtreme, hitting a top speed on a ...