About
What this publication is for
SuperCarSpeed is about one thing: where a car performance number comes from. Not which car is best, but what a 0 to 60 time actually measured, over what distance, in which direction, on which tyre and at what air temperature. It is written in English for a worldwide readership and it is deliberately narrow: acceleration, top speed, lap times, power and weight, braking and grip, electric performance.
The reason for the site is simple. Almost every performance figure in circulation is quoted without the conditions that produced it, which is how two honest sources end up half a second apart on the same car. Strip the conditions away and the number stops meaning anything. Put them back and most of the apparent contradictions in this subject disappear.
The rules we write by
- One question per article, answered in the opening paragraph. If you read a single sentence and leave, the article still did its job.
- Every number carries a source. Standards bodies, statistics offices, regulators and manufacturer documentation come before commentary. Sources are listed at the foot of each article.
- The conditions travel with the number. Distance, direction, rollout, tyre, temperature and who certified it. A lap time without its measured distance is not a lap time.
- One decisive comparison. A table or a threshold you can act on. "Both have advantages" is not a finding.
- We say when we do not know. Where a figure is disputed or a standard is still in draft, the article says so rather than inventing precision.
What we do not do
There is no paid placement on this site, no manufacturer pays for coverage, and no article is written to order. If that ever changes for a specific piece, it will be marked as advertising at the top of the page, in plain words.
We also do not run our own timing gear. Nothing here is presented as a test we conducted. Where a figure comes from a record attempt, a regulation or a manufacturer, the article says which, and links to it. That distinction matters more in this subject than in most.
Corrections
If a figure here is wrong, we want to know. Write to info@nextao.de with the article and the source that contradicts it. Corrections are made in the article itself, with the change noted.
Images
Photographs on this site are generated with AI and illustrate the subject. They are not documentary records of a specific car, circuit, event or person, and no image should be read as evidence of anything described in the text.
Who publishes this
SuperCarSpeed is published by NexTao GmbH, Koenigsallee 27, 40212 Duesseldorf, Germany. Full details are in the imprint.
Desk
Who writes here
Mika Rehnfeldt
Mika Rehnfeldt writes about acceleration, drivetrains and dynamometers. The running question is why the same car produces four different 0 to 100 figures depending on who held the timing gear.
Elena Varga
Elena Varga covers aerodynamics, top speed runs and circuit testing. She reads the record rules before the press release and is usually more interested in the conditions than the number.
Tomas Leiner
Tomas Leiner follows tyres, braking systems and electric drivetrains. He treats a single quoted figure as a first run and asks what the fifth one looked like.