Five of the highest-revving road cars ever built (2024)

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What is the highest-revving road car? ›

An engineering masterpiece, the naturally-aspirated 4.0-liter V12 developed by Cosworth delivers 654 hp in the standard T5. 0 and 700 hp in the T5. 0S track weapon. Even more impressive, it revs up to 12,100 rpm, which makes it the highest-revving engine ever fitted into a production car.

1. Gordon Murray Automotive T. 50 - 12,100 rpm. The 3.9-liter V12 in the T.

Aston Martin Valkyrie – 11,100rpm

I can't think of another car in modern times that has been as eagerly awaited as the Aston Martin Valkyrie.

Ferrari 458 – 9000-rpm

The 4.5-liter V8 used in the 458 is Ferrari's parting gift to the naturally aspirated V8. It made 562-hp in standard trim and nearly 600-hp in the 458 Speciale. Peak power arrived at a 9000-rpm redline, which meant this motor loved to work.

The RB17 is Adrian Newey's long-awaited non-F1 car, a track-only hypercar into which he's poured the contents of his planet-sized brain. It's powered by a Red Bull-spec, Cosworth-made 1,000bhp 4.5-litre V10 that can rev to 15,000rpm, aided and abetted by a 200bhp e-motor.

A high revving engine, also sometimes known as a short stroke engine is an engine where the bore is bigger than the stroke. The engine componentry on such engines is deliberately kept light to facilitate more revolutions per minute.

The Koenigsegg Jesko's twin-turbo V-8 revs from idle to redline in 0.213 seconds, beating every other street-legal production car ever made. The 5.1-liter twin-turbo V-8 that powers the Koenigsegg Jesko might just be the fastest-revving engine ever installed in a production road car.

If your vehicles engine hits 7,000 RPM and nothing else happens? You'll make a bunch of noise, probably start to notice your engine pinging as well. Also known as fuel knock, or detonation. But heavens forbid you reach 7,000RPM AND 88MPH simultaneously.

Gordon Murray's long-awaited T. 50 supercar (that's it, above) features a 3.9-litre naturally aspirated V12 engine from Cosworth, and it will rev right up to 12,100rpm. That makes it the highest-revving production car ever made and it is precisely at this point that your ears might as well give up.

What is the highest man made RPM? ›

Suspending the sphere with laser light inside a vacuum, they made the sphere spin by altering the polarity of the light. The calcium sphere reached 600 million revolutions per minute (RPM) before it disintegrated.

The Honda Beat has a redline of around 8500 rpm. The engine doesn't cut out until well past 9000.

Ensure that you change up at low revs and you'll avoid putting your engine under too much strain. If you drive a manual transmission, listen out for your revs and change up just a little bit before you normally would. The most fuel efficient RPM for a petrol car is 2,500 with diesels peaking at 2,000.

Gasoline automobile engines typically will have a redline at around 5500 to 7000 rpm. The Gordon Murray Automotive T. 50 has the highest redline of a piston-engine road car rated at 12,100 rpm. The Renesis in the Mazda RX-8 has the highest redline of a production wankel rotary-engine road car rated at 9000 rpm.

When it's set spinning, this new model hit the blistering speed of over 300 billion rpm. For comparison, dentist drills are known to get up to about 500,000 rpm, while the fastest pulsar – which is the speediest-spinning known natural object – turns at a leisurely 43,000 rpm.

In neutral, the Jesko's engine can rev from 0 to 7,800rpm in 213 milliseconds. While measuring in milliseconds isn't easy to comprehend, think about the speed of a hummingbird's wings. In the time it takes the Jesko to rev to its redline, a hummingbird will have beat its wings around 10 times.