1a-entry-ferrari-bb_autocar.jpgOur approach has always been rigorous, putting through cars through a gruelling series of tests to assess every aspect. And that includes speed.
In 1928 the land speed record stood at 207mph. In 300,000 years of human history it was the fastest any person had travelled whilst still in contact with the surface of the earth. It took Blue Bird III, a 24-litre aviation engine on wheels, the flat and endless sliver of land that is Daytona Beach in Florida and the skill and bravery of that totem of human endeavour, Malcolm Campbell, to achieve it.
Today, anyone who can afford to do so can walk into a Bentley showroom and buy a Continental GT W12 that is capable of exactly the same top speed. That is how far road car performance has come in 90 years.
Today we’re looking at the fastest cars anyone could actually go out and buy. We start in the 1900s, and work forward decade-by-decade from there:
