There’s apparently a new top-speed sheriff in town. On September 14 at Germany’s ATP Automotive Testing Papenburg track, German sports car driver Marc Basseng Piloted the Yangwang U9 Xtreme hypercar ...

John Neff has spent 22 years leading automotive websites such as Autoblog and Motor1. He's now switched to the simple life of writing about cars himself instead of managing others who do it. After 22 ...

Move over, Bugatti! The new Chinese Yangwang U9 Xtreme electric hypercar just blasted its way to a staggering, 308.4 mph top speed on a German test track, seizing the “world’s fastest car” crown and ...

A Chinese EV is now the fastest production car in the world. The YangWang U9 Extreme broke the 300 mph barrier earlier this month and dethroned the Bugatti Chiron Super Sport 300+. Just 30 units of ...

Last month, BYD's luxury brand Yangwang took the EV speed crown away from the Rimac Nevera with its 2,959 horsepower U9 Track/Special Edition. The car hit 293.54 miles per hour, but that simply wasn't ...

It has been less than a month since Chinese performance brand Yangwang claimed to have set an outright speed record for a production electric vehicle with its U9 Xtreme, hitting a top speed on a ...

Electric thunder doesn’t rumble; it arrives like a silent guillotine. On a German oval shaped by wind and nerve, a Chinese hypercar just wrote its phone number in the air: 308.3. That’s miles per hour ...

BYD’s Yangwang U9 Track Edition smashed the EV top-speed benchmark with a run of 472 km/h. Packing 3,019 hp, it’s more than a record — it’s proof China wants a seat at the hypercar table. Chinese ...