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Driven: the world's fastest front-wheel-drive car - and it's a Golf. You donât really hear of Q-cars any more. Thirty years ago the phrase was commonplace, but has fallen into effective disuse today. A Q-car was a high performance machine designed to look like it couldnât pull the skin off a cup of cold cocoa.
As of 2014, the Hennessey Venom GT is the fastest American car. It set a speed record on the 3.2-mile space shuttle landing strip at Cape Canaveral, Florida, by reaching a top speed of 270.49 miles per hour, which is roughly 400 feet per second.