Now SSC, based in West Richland, Washington, is working on a successor to the Ultimate Aero, a car that has been labeled the Tuatara and will challenge the Bugatti for the top speed title.

The SSC Tuatara is the brainchild of Jerod Shelby ... In 2006, the automaker unveiled the SSC Ultimate Aero, a car which held the title of the fastest production car. The SSC Ultimate Aero ...

"It's been ten years since we held this record with our first car, the Ultimate Aero, and the Tuatara is leagues ahead." Shelby is talking about SSC's first run in capturing the speed title in 2007.

Lead Designer and CEO of SSC. “We have just raised the bar again by adding some of the cutting-edge elements from our Tuatara, to this very small production run of Ultimate Aero XT’s.” ...

This record comes 10 years after SSC set a record with its first car, the Ultimate Aero. The Tuatara’s performance far outclasses the Ultimate Aero’s, and it put up the numbers to show it.

Late last year, SSC released a video which claimed the Tuatara set a two-way average ... SSC pulled a similar trick in the early 2000s with the Ultimate Aero. In 2005, Bugatti held the world ...

While we’ve seen the upcoming SSC Tuatara’s monstrous V8 being bench ... of the American exotic from inside the cockpit of an SSC Ultimate Aero XT, the company’s first car to hit 250 miles ...

When we covered the SSC Tuatara back in 2011, the plan was to upsize the 6.4-liter twin-turbo V-8 engine it designed for the SSC Ultimate Aero, the Tuatara's predecessor, to 7.0 liters.

The Tuatara is the long-awaited successor to SSC’s Ultimate Aero, which for three years held the record for fastest production car, reaching an independently-measured 256.18 miles per hour in 2007.

The SSC Tuatara hypercar, which is a product of the ... the Guinness title of fastest production car was in 2007 when the Ultimate Aero set a 256-mph record. Webb performed two back-to-back ...

The Tuatara reclaims the title once held by SSC's 256 mph Ultimate Aero TT a decade ago. To qualify as the world's fastest production car, the car needs to be of production spec -- identical to ...