and an effort the following day failed due to sub-optimal conditions, with test driver Rick Doria reporting wheelspin at speeds above 300 km/h. Six months later SSC announced they had established a new production car speed record of in West Richland, Washington on September 13, 2007. In accordance with FIA Speed Records rules it was an average of two runs in opposite directions, and . The results were verified by the Guinness World Records on October 9, 2007. SSC is currently one of only twenty-six car manufacturers in history to have held the record. SSC also applied to Guinness for the world record for the highest power for an emissions-legal production car. Its record was broken on July 4, 2010, by the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport, which reached a certified top speed of . See also List of production cars by power output References External links Sports cars Coupés Rear mid-engine, rear-wheel-drive vehicles Cars introduced in 2004 2000s cars 2010s cars