Top 10 Fastest Cars

Which are the top 10 fastest cars? This is a frequently asked question in motor magazines and motor websites. If you take passenger cars, you can find that speed is actually not a concern in most cases, especially considering today's congested traffic. Speed does matter in car racing competitions. The list of top 10 fastest cars published by various websites and magazines usually will have some kind of subjectivity and bias. Anyway, let us start from the bottom. The car that comes tenth on most of the lists is Porsche Carrera GT. Its maximum listed speed is 209 mph. It can steam into 60 mph in just 3.9 seconds. The engine has a power of 612 hp. The ninth spot in the l goes to Lamborghini Murcielago LP640. It has a maximum speed of 213 mph. It can reach a speed of 60 mph is 3.3 seconds. The power of the engine is 640 hp. Although it comes only ninth in the list, it is undoubtedly the best-designed car in the list. In the eighth spot is Pagani Zonda F. It is has a maximum speed of 215 mph. It can reach 60 mph in 3.5 seconds.

It is powered by a 650 hp Mercedes Benz M180 V12 engine. Slightly faster than this car is Jaguar XJ220. It has a maximum speed of 217 mph. But it reaches the speed of 60 mph only in 4 seconds. Ferrari Enzo is in the sixth spot. Its maximum speed is 217 mph. It can race to a 60 mph speed in 3.4 seconds. Its engine has a power of 660 hp. The fact that only 399 models were produced makes it a collector's item. A car from McLaren, Ferrari's staunchest rival in Formula One circuit, comes next. McLaren F1 has a maximum speed of 240 mph. It can reach 60 mph in 3.2 seconds. It has a 627 hp BMW V12 Engine. At the fourth position in the top 10 fastest cars list is Saleen S7 Twin-Turbo. Its maximum speed is 248 mph. It can attain a speed of 60 mph in 3.2 seconds. Koenigsegg CCX is at the third spot. It has a maximum speed of 250 mph. It can reach 60 mph in 3.2 seconds. It is made in Sweden. Some analysts have ranked it as the fastest. The second in the list is Bugatti Veyron. Its maximum speed is 253 mph. It can reach 60 mph in an incredible 2.5 seconds. The power of its engine is 1001 hp. The first in the list of top 10 fastest cars is SSC Ultimate Aero. It has a maximum speed of 257 mph. It can accelerate to 60 mph in 2.7 seconds. The power of its engine is 1183 hp.

It鈥檚 slightly better equipped than its rival because the latter two are extra on the VW. Material quality in the 508 isn鈥檛 quite as good as in the VW, though, with some shiny plastic surfaces that attract fingerprints and feel a bit cheap. But that鈥檚 offset by the fabric on the doors and dashboard, which is very upmarket. Also, the 508鈥檚 cabin has a very attractive design that is centred upon the large 10-inch touchscreen infotainment display. Unfortunately, one aspect of the interior that doesn鈥檛 quite work is the driving position. The tiny steering wheel that sits below the digital dash is set too low and it feels unnatural in a large car like this. While the i-Cockpit layout is effective in models such as the 3008, where the seat is set high up, it frustrates here, particularly for tall drivers. The 508 deals with most road surfaces pretty well, and in Comfort mode is almost as relaxed as the Arteon is on adaptive dampers. Going over big potholes is harsher in the Peugeot than in the VW, but both cars mask undulations in the tarmac and smaller bumps nicely on the motorway.

Its 1.6-litre petrol engine is well isolated from the cabin, too, so it鈥檚 refined at speed. The French model鈥檚 gearbox slurs its shifts more than the VW and is better for it much of the time. While both cars look like they might have a saloon boot, they鈥檙e actually hatchbacks. There鈥檚 a similar amount of space in both at first glance, but the stats reveal that the 508鈥檚 487-litre luggage space is the smaller of the two, because the VW has 563 litres available. Both are easy enough to load, thanks to their wide openings. The Peugeot also falls behind the Volkswagen for rear passenger space, because there鈥檚 not as much head or legroom. Both cars are spacious enough for adults to sit comfortably, however, but their sloping rooflines result in smaller rear windows, so there鈥檚 not much light in the back. Safety kit is a strong point for the 508, with autonomous emergency braking, lane-keep assist and distance alert all standard.

Also included is the Safety Plus pack, which adds blind spot detection, an alertness monitor, automatic high-beam headlights and road sign recognition. Euro NCAP hasn鈥檛 tested the 508 yet, but we鈥檇 expect a strong result. Peugeot scored poorly in our Driver Power 2018 customer satisfaction survey, with the brand finishing 17th out of 26 manufacturers and coming 17th out of 28 in the dealer poll. The 508 is cheaper to buy than the Arteon and also emits less CO2, at 125g/km. The Peugeot sits in the 26 per cent Benefit-in-Kind (BiK) tax band. Many of these large family models are run as company cars, so the BiK rate is a key factor here. Higher-rate earners will pay 拢3,226 per year to run the Fastback, whereas the pricier Arteon will cost buyers 拢3,845 a year in tax contributions. However, the Volkswagen will depreciate less, so its residual value will be higher after three years鈥?ownership.