The Hennessey Venom GT has unofficially become the fastest production car in the world after reaching a speed of 270.49mph (435.311km/h) on Nasa’s space shuttle landing runway at the JFK Space Center in Florida.
The get the official record, the Venom GT will need to match that speed on a second run.
The £720,000 car broke the previous 267.856mph record held by the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport.
The car is powered by a 7-litre twin-turbo GM-sourced V8 engine, and there are currently on 11 of them in the world.