That title currently belongs to the Thrust SSC, which in 1997 became ... The all-time fastest accelerating production car in the world belongs to the HEMI-powered Dodge Challenger SRT Demon ...

This helps it achieve the top speed despite a comparatively high drag coefficient of 0.35 Cd, making it more brick-like than the second fastest production car in the world, the SSC Tuatara (0.279 Cd).

Nonetheless, this previous figure does still make the Tuatara world’s fastest production car, eclipsing the 277.9mph average of the previous record holder, Koenigsegg’s Agera RS. The SSC ...