Did the SSC Tuatara REALLY Set a 331mph World Record?
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The SSC Tuatara claims to be the fastest car in the world, having recently hit a reported world record top speed for a production car of 331mph! However, the official video of the run poses many questions that introduce an element of doubt, so let's investigate and determine if everything is what it seems...
SSC report that on 10th October, 2020, the Tuatara in production specification form broke a top speed record with one direction at 331.15mph and the other at 301.07mph for an average of 316.1mph - beating the previous record of the Koenigsegg Agera RS by 38.2mph (from 277.9mph). The runs took place on the very same road, the Nevada Highway 160 from the intersection with Tecopa Road with the Tuatara's fastest direction heading South-East towards Las Vegas and the slow speed on the return.
After plenty of time spent viewing the videos and analysing the data presented from the run so far, let's calculate whether it's possible and investigate further into these numbers. There are a number of areas that don't quite add up; from the time travelling between the fixed medians on the road and the painted street markings, to the dashboard and telemetry data being out of sync, and also on the technical side with the engine and gearbox configuration.
A further topic of discussion not mentioned is the noticeable lag between the shift points recorded by the telemetry data which can simply be seen coming a few seconds delayed in comparison to the visual cues of the shift and rev counter, plus the audible sound of the RPMs.
This video asks questions, based on the information given so far. If there are answers, it would be fantastic to hear them and the accompanying data that lines up to prove that the record has indeed been broken.
Thanks to Jey, Matt, Kaare, Robert, Misha and many more for their involvement.
FACTUAL CORRECTION: The rear tyre setup is 345, not 335 which produces a maximum 6th gear speed of 477.67 km/h - 296.15 mph, 3mph faster than suggested.
Information and data sources:
BBC Top Gear 331mph Record video:
plclip.info/show/gGhmrZqzfaGnaZw/wideo
SSC Tuatara vs Koenigsegg Agera RS head to head video:
plclip.info/show/goKjqX_IfW_ef6A/wideo
Start location for the run:
goo.gl/maps/6ZzK3ZCppWJZqoxL6
Oli Webb confirming 6th gear for the run:
plclip.info/show/lKGJ2IyaiYS6naQ/wideo
Comparative Data:
Koenigsegg Agera RS 271.19mph in 5th Oct 2017
Average run speed of 277.9mph
Slower run SE, faster run NW of 284.55mph
SSC Tuatara 331.15mph on 10th Oct 2020
Average run speed of 316.1mph
Faster run SE, slower run NW of 301.07mph
Median Comparisons:
Start to 1st median
Distance: 1.69km / 1.05m
Time: 38.18s = 99.5mph avg
1st to 2nd median
Distance: 1.81km / 1.13m
Time: 22.64s = 179.7mph avg
Entry at 192mph, exit at 307mph
2nd to 3rd median
Distance: 2.28km / 1.42m
Time: 28.24s including a pause
Pause is 3:82
Total time: 24.40s = 209.5mph avg
Entry at 307mph, exit at 242mph
1st to 3rd
Total excluding the pause is 47.39s = 195mph
Entry at 194mph, exit at 242mph, 331mph along the way
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Komentarze
Hey shmee watch the start of the video and without the car moving it’s doing 12 mph
SSC is slower while being faster because the earth is flat.
Look at the time taken to reach the 200mph mark then see how fast the 300mph mark came along... what happens to aerodynamics before 200mph that make acceleration slower than above 200mph?
what if the computer is the one faking it
Great Great Analysis
Hi! I didn't expect such an investigation!
Thanks alot for this great analysis and great intellectual display
Thank you
I'm a huge fan of cars..sport and hypercar..but got check .. Thestradman...he went in the car ..for a spin... 5th gear get to 240mph at arounnd 7200rpm... The car go faster then 244 in 5th that for sure :)
The joke here is, if they had just said that they did 280 miles/hour, they still beat the official record and be the world’s fastest production car
DISSTRACKK DISSSS TRACKKKKK IS COMING
MAKE A DISSTRACKKKKK SHMEE.
People trust Christian Koenigsegg and the likes of Bugatti, etc. Shelby is also a legendary name in motor racing ...... that of course was Carroll Shelby .... not the lying cheat Jerod Shelby who is the owner of this car crash, bullshit, lying shitheads of a company. Carroll is no relation to Jerod. I hope no one buys the faux Tuatara ..... which evidently is an old Cherokee word for lying bastard.
Very Nice Video Shmee. I enjoyed it. Regards from Greece.
what car maker, specially a hypercar one, in the world!!! makes a fake video!!! even the driver, sees to be relaxed, saying like he drive that speed before over and over again!!! but that relaxe, is fictional, when you get that speed, you dont curve your neck to front no, you get back, because the speed is g force and there the only clue we have to say, this, is no more, than other freacking americal agresive style comercial
SSC: We are the fastest!!! SHMEE: Hold my chocolate milk!
He’s smiling but he looks incredibly angry.
What’s sad is that SSC could have simply made this car as is and it would have sold fairly well. 280mph is still an impressive number only a few cars are capable of. It’s such a beautiful design as well. Such a shame they decided to lie about the top speed.
Who else is here from the TikTok?
Anyways they already got their publicity now...
Case closed now for sure, he lied
Hi Tim, just an idea here. If Jerod Shelby has difficulties to measure speed with GPS, why doesn't he just give a step back and measure speed with some photo cells along the track? I don't understand his difficulty. Cheers! My name is Tom aka Tiguapore.
Stupid
Lord Shmee!
Like the moon landing math and science exposes another lie.
Stan Torren
11 dni temu
Mate you made a fool of yourself. Maths and science PROVES the moon landing was real. On the other hand, it proves this speed run is fake
They should have sectioning body controlling standards of timing like salts flats.
There is upcoming car by Bugatti in future with speed 650-700mph /kph
Don't be jealous bro, if it was Aston Martin you'd be all over there nuts
JDM Virgins Media
7 dni temu
Jealous? He’s debunking the fake speed record. Don’t deny evidence.
Nice catch.
i love your restraint. i would have just called them liars. no hunting for soft words, no regard for feelings. [My Opening Statements if this were my Video] 'Let me Tell y'all About some Liars!'
You gonna be at the second run?
i'm glad shmee decided to torque about it
Tuatara takes close to 10 seconds to accelerate from 250mph to 300mph. It seems to be impossible for the given specs.
The 250mph to 300mph acceleration of the SSC is unbelievable (aka fake). If the SSC could accelerate like that at those speeds, it would be an even bigger accomplishment than going above 300 mph.
great explanations. If only this level of explanation for people would don't believe Covid-19 precautions are necessary.
Shmeeeeeee
Yeah well I have to say way to call it! Great video, the facts don't lie!
The perfect car for Joe Biden
Koenigsegg the BEST☝
i like your voice its very calming :)
40 miles quicker is impossible but your equasion is faulty
Can someone explain this to a slow guy like me? I know SSC did some shady stuff, but how does this video prove it? Its all going over my head.
Lol SSC sucks
The most suspicious thing to me in all of this is that they have said they will not be releasing the GPS data.
Not trying to be rude but he said it’s impossible to take longer to get to the same spot if your moving faster but if it takes longer to speed up then it is actually is possible
Even when the Bugatti hit records, at the top end, those last few mph were herd to get, the numbers ticking up very slowly, even with 1300+ hp. This in-car vid shows the mph clicking up fast through 320s. That would indicate the car has even more to give. At only 1k hp, there’s not enough to push through. Incremental more speed requires exponentially more power, especially at these speeds when the air in front is literally compressed to same density as peanut butter.
Pagan Min
Miesiąc temu
1750HP, 0.279 drag coefficient and incredibly low frontal area (which makes it even more aerodynamic) is plenty to achieve 330mph with power to spare. Bugatti weighs as much as a fucking pig, has much larger frontal area and has much worse drag coefficient so of course it's gonna accelerate like a snail.
His body language, speech and overall presentation improved so much from his earlier videos.
Shelby.........come out to playay!!!!!!
ummm it pauses because you can see it get the world record meaning this video was a waste of time
Is he british??? I'm just curious
Just like the man on the moon, a hoax!
Stan Torren
11 dni temu
This one is a hoax, the moon landing isn’t. Your intelligence is a hoax though
Welcome to the FBI
Love the analysis! Agreed: too many “red flags” to buy what they are selling. I propose a real and transparent re-run! I also propose head to head races in the 1/4 mile, 1/2 mile and 1 mile distances. And a Nuremberg lap time, too!
Exposing the deceivers .
DONALD TRUMP SPREAD THE LIES DISEASE IN AMERICA GOT AMERICAN COMPANIES TO THINK ITS OK TO LIE SOME ONES ALWAYS GOING TO FACT CHECK
Jonas Larsson
Miesiąc temu
@E K Why would it make sense?
E K
Miesiąc temu
Is it really that hard to write in English so it makes sense?
Jonas Larsson
Miesiąc temu
Go get a TDS test kit.
I guess it 331kmph rather than 331mph, 🤣🤣🤣thy just swapped the units
Jonas Larsson
Miesiąc temu
1.46 factor, not 1.608
You can put any European Hypercars against the ssc. None will ever even closer to it. she even smoke the chiron out that easy. It’s on PLclip lol
Kristen now you have chance to be the first person who build a car can reach 500 km/h pls try the jesko absolut
was zur Hölle ist mit deiner Stimme Los!?!?!
Great work Shmee! Now you need to solve how Biden won the election.
The car may have had a glitch and the speedometer read the wrong speed, hey you never know
The Math adds up 280
Jonas Larsson
Miesiąc temu
250.
🤔🤔🤔🤔 I don't know man
Not sure whether it has been raised by someone else, but one should be wary of the risks involved when people allow emotions to be a factor at the speeds we're talking about. If - I say IF - someone gets emotional and decides to "prove a point" or "save face", this has the potential to get someone killed.
They redid that entire hwy in the last couple years- changed grades and all
Pro Crastinator
2 miesięcy temu
Dan Smulders actually, they widened it and smoothed out turns- using dynamite to bring down cliff sides . Again: I drive on this highway. It has drastically changed. I’m not sure if this has affected the comparison- just that it’s a distinct possibility that I think is being overlooked.
Pro Crastinator
2 miesięcy temu
Dan Smulders He’s using the older version still on google maps to do his measurements. Next time I’m on that highway I will see if those distances are still the same, they very well could be. But elevational changes can change distance without changing landmarks necessarily, even appearing to show the same road landmarks that might be a little different. Again, I’m not claiming this is true, just that it is entirely possible.
Pro Crastinator
2 miesięcy temu
Dan Smulders No, I did- what I’m saying- with experience driving that highway is that it has changed a little bit topographically, which might change some of the assumptive calculations, though not enough to warrant the ridiculous top speed, but enough to make the comparison with the agera off significantly. I’m looking forward to the redo- Expecting a little north of 300
Sorry. Bollocks. Complete. Full. Stop.
Jonas Larsson
Miesiąc temu
It ran 250.
Shmerlock 150
Jonas Larsson
Miesiąc temu
It’s widely known it ran 250.
ما نروملك المحلل 😂😂
Tuatara to Agera : Dude. I almost had you :P Agera : You Almost had me ? You never had me. You never had Yourself. Tuatara : Sadface sighs
*Your faster than tuatara,,* 🗣🚀⚡
So, orders could have come in for Tuataras, like crazy....the world's fastest car. But how many owners will repeat the test to see how fast their cars goes? So it becomes a "con"-fidence game....until Schmee got ahold of the vids. Great job!
Ailsa Ni
2 miesięcy temu
impossible.
What height did the Worldwide record take place
Ailsa Ni
2 miesięcy temu
for Shelby Super Cars (Inc.) I'm sure the great man would have something to say on falsifying performance claims, especially on the back of his legacy.
When have you all ever known America to be honest and play a fair game? Hell just look at our president..... Make American great
I don't understand anything I heard here but I do feel smarter as if I'd stayed at an Holiday Inn Express now.
Love this style of vid!
lie until they couldn't.
qopoy dnon
2 miesięcy temu
They used the Donald Trump truth, so it's a lie.
There is only one true explanation: when tuatara started driving the earth started spinning the opposite direction of the car making the tuatara able to reach the speed of light.
kolim jone
2 miesięcy temu
My respect for Shmee has drastically risen! 👍
Don't they have professional out there to make sure it true, I would like them to run another one to show
Stan Torren
11 dni temu
They have and the engine had problems
qopoy dnon
2 miesięcy temu
SCC: We are the fastest now. Shmee: I am going to ruin your whole week. SCC: No oNE sAId tHErE wOuLD bE mATh
Science biatch!
soiung toiue
2 miesięcy temu
SCC: We are the fastest now. Shmee: I am going to ruin your whole week. SCC: No oNE sAId tHErE wOuLD bE mATh
Why use an onboard timing system? Shouldn't this be based on time and distance at the roadside? The big boy land speed record attempts use point to point timing systems.
Nice one, Tim!
Tim keep digging. Why these companies pay attention
Trust an American car company to bring some of that Hollywood magic to the world record for production car top speed 🤩
Shmee is a man of integrity. No 1 should question him.
Koenigsegg: 'STOP THE COUNT!'
Most excellent video Mr. Shmee. A proper, unbiased dissection of SSC's claims. For sure the Tuatara is a great car but..... Blanking out the speedometer reading? S.S.C. stands for Shelby Super Cars (Inc.) I'm sure the great man would have something to say on falsifying performance claims, especially on the back of his legacy.
bcvbb hyui
2 miesięcy temu
"Because speed and time is relative"
Excellent marketing for the fastest car! Also, a second overdrive is not inherently weaker than 1:1 nor the first. It is simply an increase in gear stress. That doesn't have to be impossible.
Shmee I Think Trump and his campaign financed the SSC on this run a told them to make it the" fastest ever!" 🤣🤣😂😂
Guess it's not the only thing the US is faking this year
SCC: We are the fastest now. Shmee: I am going to ruin your whole week. SCC: No oNE sAId tHErE wOuLD bE mATh
They used the Donald Trump truth, so it's a lie.
My respect for Shmee has drastically risen! 👍
SCC: We are the fastest now. Shmee: I am going to ruin your whole week. SCC: No oNE sAId tHErE wOuLD bE mATh
Ailsa Ni
2 miesięcy temu
Great investigative work Shmee, are you available to help the US media learn some investigative techniques and curiosity?
Hi guys I'm Nick and NO is the answer we all came for. There I saved you 20 mins your welcome
I love how the CEO of tuatarra looks EXACTLY like Christian Von Koenigsegg 😂
B4silisk
2 miesięcy temu
Fun fact: Ceo of SSC and Christian Von Koenigsegg actually know each other
adam ali
2 miesięcy temu
They look like brothers
Wow
sehhi vooty
2 miesięcy temu
A car that has (as read in a comment): 1247 kg weight, 1750hp and 0.279 drag coefficient, a very low frontal area and is very aerodynamic, can easily beat the previous record
what is your engineering background?and why are you whining about this😂😂🤣
Cyvan
2 miesięcy temu
what is YOUR engineering background?and why are you commenting about this😂😂🤣
I can barely cook bacon without burning it, so all of your math hurt my head, but it was still a great video! I live in Nevada, so it's cool to find out that this is where they do their runs
Who in their right mind will pull their deposit on a Bugatti to get into a not so relevant brand.
"Because speed and time is relative"