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Venom GT, world’s fastest car hits 435 km/hour

by Gyanvitaranam

    The world’s fastest car developed by US Engineers touches a top speed of 435 km per hour. The US firm Hennessey’s Venom GT set the new record during a test run at the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida. Venom beat the previous best records of 431 km per hour set by Bugatti Veyron super Sport. The Venom GT is a stretched Lotus Exige with a 7 litre 927 km twinturbo V8 wedged between the sides. Test driver Brian Smith started from zero, broke the record and stopped on a 5.1 km stretch of tarmac. ‘Drive.com’, reported Smith as saying “If we could run on an eight mile (12.8 km) oval we could go faster than....

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