World Record

Oh yeah, it also has roughly 4,425 pound-feet of torque.

The Hennessey Venom GT Spyder hit 265.6 miles per hour down a runway to become the world's fastest convertible.

British stunt driver Alastair Moffatt scored another world record at Autosport International, where he spun a Subaru BRZ around in a space of 21 feet - just 7 more than the length of the car.

The world record for the fastest wheelie ever was broken last week in a British racing event by Gary Rothwell.

Gregg Godfrey jumped 166 feet in a semi truck to set a new record for the stunt. While it looked easy from the outside, from inside Godfrey clearly felt the impact when the big rig returned to Earth.

Massive expansion plans for the Gigafactory that Tesla is still building in the Nevada desert could make it the largest building in the world by any metric you could care to throw at it.

After a 25-day journey, a Honda Civic Tourer wagon has set a Guinness World Record averaging 83.5 miles per gallon after driving 8,387 miles through all 24 contiguous countries of the European Union.

Shemika Charles amazed herself and onlookers when she completed the feat bent over backwards to get underneath the SUV earlier this week.

Honda looks to set fuel-efficiency record across Europe with Civic Tourer.

WAVE 2015 says it has 508 registrations, which would set a new plug-in vehicle gathering record.

451 Ram owners drove to Arlington, TX, to set a new world record for the longest parade of pickup trucks, coinciding with the Academy of Country Music Awards at the home of the Dallas Cowboys.

Two years ago, the Guinness World Record for the world's largest burnout was set at the Summernats, an Australian festival of horsepower and smoke in the nation's capital, Canberra. The record was broken on New Year's Day this year, by the ladies and gentlemen of Summernats, who raised the certified world record to 103 cars.

Monster trucks are made for a lot of things: crushing jalopies, jumping over jalopies, wowing spectators while crushing and jumping over jalopies, and so on. But powerful as they tend to be, monster trucks are not built for outright speed. Still, one has to be faster than another, and as it turns out, Raminator is the fastest of them all.

Lotus F1 wasn't content to just make any commercial for their technology partner EMC Industries. It had to be one for the record books. The video released today shows a truck breaking the world record for longest jump ever completed by a truck.

Are you the type of person picks up little pieces of lint or hair in your car to keep things clean? If so, then this Fiat 500 in Italy might just drive you insane. An Italian women and her classic Fiat 500 have received two Guinness World Records for creating the world's hairiest car.

Let's be honest, with more and more electric vehicles out in the world, it's getting easier to bring more and more of them together in one spot. Still, the work that goes into convincing over 500 EV owners to show up at one place at one time should be rewarded. And, in the case of the San Francisco Bay

A 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO broke the record for cars sold at auction when it went for $38 million Thursday night at a Bonhams auction during Monterey Car Week.

Last year, Guerlain Chicherit managed to backflip his Mini and land in the record books, and this past winter he went after Tanner Foust's record by attempting a 360-foot jump at a ski resort in the French Alps. Unfortunately, things did not go as planned.

While there are those who watch automotive exploits hoping (secretly o

Later today, at the Goodwood Motor Circuit in the UK, an unusual electric vehicle world record attempt will take place. The challenge? To take a particular style of EV further in 24 hours than anyone has ever gone before. The vehicle in question? A mobility scooter.