In 1938, Mercedes-Benz shattered the world land speed record on a public road with a heavily modified W125 Grand Prix car, clocking 268.9 mph on a stretch of Germany’s Autobahn between Frankfurt and Darmstadt. The attempt was part of Nazi…
Ferrari’s 2027 12Cilindri Manuale has reignited the debate over what qualifies as a true manual transmission, but the Italian supercar maker isn’t sweating it. The flagship V12 grand tourer is the first manual-equipped Ferrari in over a decade, yet it…
Koenigsegg and Lego have shattered the Lego-vehicle speed record at Goodwood by running a full-scale, hand-built Sadair’s Spear made entirely of Lego bricks up the hill—backwards. Driver Markus Lundh, who set the production-car record in an actual Sadair’s Spear last…
Koenigsegg’s Jesko Absolut just shattered the quarter-mile record for non-EV production cars after a simple over-the-air software update. The twin-turbo 5.0-liter V8 hypercar, making 1,600 horsepower on E85 fuel, now clocks a blistering 8.54 seconds at 190 mph in the…