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    What is the fastest car ever made?

    what is the fastest piston-powered car ever made?

    from what i know is this car: Mercedes-Benz W125 Record 1938
    it can tops 433 kph / 269.1 mph. its peak output is 736 bhp @ 5800 rpm.

    is there's anyone know anything faster?
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    The fastest piston powered, wheel driven "car" is Goldenrod, with 4 Hemis powering it to 409.277mph in 1965
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    The story behind the MB record was that the speed they reached was 269mph, however when it reached that speed, a strong gust flipped the car through the air and it was destroyed, and the driver was killed. There was another MB record made, and it still lives today. The top speed of the car is over 269mph, but it has never been reached; and never will be reached with this car.

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    The fastest road car is this 1987 Oldsmobile Aerotech. It does 278mph. Thats all the details that i can find bout it!
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    Quote Originally Posted by the real deal
    The fastest road car is this 1987 Oldsmobile Aerotech. It does 278mph. Thats all the details that i can find bout it!
    I think the top speed was an 'estimate'.
    It did go on to break lots of high-speed endurance records and has a slot in the Motorsport Hall of Fame in Michigan. But I dont' remember it getting top speed.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Coventrysucks
    The fastest piston powered, wheel driven "car" is Goldenrod, with 4 Hemis powering it to 409.277mph in 1965
    do you have any pics of it? and maybe a few details like its peak power?
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    Thrust

    not pistom powered but...


    dragsters can get ot 300 just about i think 295mph or something
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mustang
    Thrust
    Not really fair, Mustang.
    Thrust is turbine and doesn't drive the wheels.
    It gets a different class for speed.
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    if we're using jets, why not the saturn 5???
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    Quote Originally Posted by tmntmail_ppn
    if we're using jets, why not the saturn 5???
    doesn't have wheels, and it doesn't even carry people

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    Hot off the presses...

    With twin hemi racing engines that put out 4,000 horsepower. The Burkland Streamliner as reported on http://www.missoulian.com/NIE/topics/041105-fast.html

    A quote from the site listed above:
    The car blasts across the desert floor and flashes through a measured mile course in 8.2 seconds.

    The remarkably short scene recorded by Svoboda documented a new world land speed record for piston-powered, wheel-driven vehicles. The feat was accomplished on Oct. 16 by an all-Montana team.

    The speed: an incredible 417.020 miles per hour for a two-way average in the “flying mile,” in which the car – called a streamliner in the sport....
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    Quote Originally Posted by tmntmail_ppn
    do you have any pics of it? and maybe a few details like its peak power?
    "The Summers Brothers' gorgeous Goldenrod produced 608 bhp from each of its four supercharged Chrysler Hemis. It was 32 ft long, 48 in wide, and most of it was 28 in high. The wheelbase was 207 in, and the whole car weighed 8450 lb. Uses four-wheel drive."

    It hit 425 in practice and was never driven in top gear, so could have gone faster.



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    not much like a car, but it's nice.
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