Koenigsegg Agera R
Image: Cars247 Official Photographer Hunter Swift

If you read our fastest 0-60 accelerating production cars we noted that the list was dominated by 4 wheel drive electric wizardry. If however you change the benchmark – go from say 0-60 to the 1/4 mile. It is a very, very different story.

Why? weight.

With government legislation on how high your front headlight needs to be so Mary in her Toyota Prius can see your bright red LaFerrari – lightweight supercars are not so lightweight anymore. A Lamborghini Huracan is about the same weight as Mary’s Prius. It looks it too.

So in the interest of fairness and to tip our caps to engineers with a wrench and not a laptop here’s the Ten fastest 1/4 mile production cars.

Rules:
– Must be a production car
– Road Legal
– Street Tyres
– Verified Times – This is important. Only Verified times by reliable sources make it.

1.Caparo T1 – 8.23 Seconds

caparo t1
Image: Caparo


2.SSC Ultimate Aero – 8.31 Seconds

ultimate aero
Image SSC

 

3.Caterham 7 V8- 8.48 Seconds

caterham 7
Image: Caterham

 

4.Hennessey Venom GT – 8.64 Seconds

Venom GT
Image: Hennessey

 

5.Porsche 9FF – 8.66 Seconds

porsche 9ff
Image: Porsche

 

6.TVR Cerbera Speed 12 – 8.73 Seconds

cerbera speed 12
Image: TVR

 

7.Koenigsegg CCXR – 8.84 Seconds

koenigsegg ccxr
Image: Cars247 Official Photographer Daniel Taylor

 

8.Ariel Atom V8 – 8.95 Seconds

atom v8
Image: Ariel

 

9.Koenigsegg Agera R – 9.00 Seconds

Koenigsegg Agera R
Image: Cars247 Official Photographer Hunter Swift

10.Ultima GTR – 9.06 Seconds

ultima gtr
Image: Ultima GTR

Honorable Mention: Wheres the Bugatti Veyron SuperSport? Next at 9.21 seconds. It appears 1200hp is not enough to join this club.