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At 508 kmph, reptilian SSC Tuatara hypercar is the world's fastest car

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The reptilian SSC Tuatara hypercar posted an average speed of 316.11 mph (508.73 km/h) while driving on a 11.27 km stretch of the two-lane Highway 160 outside Las Vegas

Hannah Elliott | Bloomberg

2 min read Last Updated : Oct 20 2020 | 11:39 PM IST

The world has a new fastest car. The reptilian SSC Tuatara hypercar posted an average speed of 316.11 mph (508.73 km/h) while driving on a 11.27 km stretch of the two-lane Highway 160 outside Las Vegas. The result beat, by a large margin, two high marks set last year by Bugatti’s pre-production Chiron prototype (304.77 mph) and one that the Koenigsegg Agera RS set for production cars in 2017 (277.87 mph).

Oliver Webb, the 29-year-old Englishman who drove the Tuatara, hit 484.53 kmph) mph on his first run and 532.93 kmph on his second run in the opposite direction. The average

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