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Highest horsepower cars 2026 It seems like a while since the 618bhp McLaren F1 was setting records; today’s hypercars make up to 2,000bhp By:Antony Ingram 9 Apr 2025 0 Highest horsepower cars 2026\ Lotus Evija\ Rimac Nevera – front action\ Hennessy Venom F5\ Bugatti Tourbillon – front static\ SSC Tuatara – front action\ Koenigsegg Jesko\ Xiaomi SU7 Ultra – front\ Czinger 21C\ Yangwang U9 – front static\ McLaren W1 – front static\ 1 of 11\ \ \ \ Highest horsepower cars 2026\ Lotus Evija\ Rimac Nevera – front action\ Hennessy Venom F5\ Bugatti Tourbillon – front static\ SSC Tuatara – front action\ Koenigsegg Jesko\ Xiaomi SU7 Ultra – front\ Czinger 21C\ Yangwang U9 – front static\ McLaren W1 – front static\n\n\n\nThings have gone just a little bit mad. We live in a world of 400-horsepower family cars, 700-horsepower saloons, and if you’re creating a supercar, don’t even bother unless it has a four-figure power output. Where once the world’s most exotic and powerful cars got by on perhaps 500, or 600bhp – the original McLaren F1 developed 618bhp – today it’s not unusual to see two or even three times that number. The world’s most powerful cars are completely off the charts of what we’d have thought possible a few years ago.\n\n\nOne factor driving this explosion in power has been the ease of extracting enormous numbers from electric motors, though you might be surprised how many of the world’s most powerful cars still use internal combustion. Even if petrol machines don’t top the highest horsepower list, you can be sure they’re the most exciting.\n\n\nFastest road cars – header\n\nWorld’s fastest road cars 2026: the top 20 by top speed\n\nNow for some housekeeping: some of the world’s most powerful cars may be missing from this list, but we’ve tried to keep it to models that are nominally available right now, with either open order books, or cars still rolling from the factory gates. We’ve excluded cars that have already ended production (so no Bugatti Chiron Super Sport and the like), as well as pie-in-the-sky projects with little certainty of ever turning a wheel. And just like the world’s fastest and most accelerative cars, it’s an ever-evolving list…\n\n\n1. Lotus Evija: 2,012bhp\n\n\nLotus Evija11\n\nThe Evija is not a light Lotus, coming in at a full 1,887kg. That’s 2.6 original Elises, 2.9 classic Elans, or 4.2 series one Lotus 7s. It is a very, very powerful one though, with 2,012bhp from its four electric motors – each motor equivalent to the output of 4.2 of the Elise’s Rover engines, five Elan 1500s, or fourteen Lotus Seven Series 1s.\n\n\nAdvertisement – Article continues below\n\n\nLotus owners and enthusiasts would rightly point out that power isn’t the point of a Lotus, so the Evija still has a lot to prove. Not least to customers, who’ve had to wait their sweet time for deliveries to begin – something that started only in late 2024, a full five years after the car was unveiled, thanks in no small part to the pandemic. Will the power, and the driving experience, make up for that?\n\n\n2. Rimac Nevera: 1,888bhp\n\n\nRimac Nevera – front action11\n\nHere’s what Mate Rimac did before his company took the reins at Bugatti and created the Tourbillon. The Nevera arrived in 2022, following on from the already massively potent 1,224bhp Concept One, with 1,888bhp at its disposal from a motor at each wheel, allowing not just enormous performance (0-62mph in 1.74 seconds, 256mph) but also true torque vectoring for remarkably agile handling.\n\n\nFinding buyers though has been tricky, with Mate Rimac himself suggesting in 2024 that there’s not really a market for high-end, all-electric hypercars, however powerful they are. No doubt slow sales of the Nevera (and its differently-styled twin, the Pininfarina Battista) influenced the direction of the V16-engined Bugatti Tourbillon. Even so, the Nevera has been a good shop window for Rimac, which has contributed components and technical expertise to several major car manufacturers for their own EVs.\n\n\n3. Hennessey Venom F5: 1,817bhp\n\n\nHennessey Venom F511\n\nHennessey seemingly exists to give much larger supercar and hypercar makers a hard time. No sooner do the likes of Bugatti attempt a record-breaking acceleration or top speed run, you can just about guarantee Hennessey will be there a year or so later to snatch the record back.\n\n\nAdvertisement – Article continues below\n\n\nThe Venom F5 is Hennessey’s most recent creation, taking its name from the biggest, deadliest rating on the scale used to measure tornadoes, and created with the goal of breaching the 500km/h mark, or 311mph. That’s a fair way above the current, officially-recognised two-way speed record of nearly 278mph held by Koenigsegg with the Agera RS, but consider that Bugatti achieved over 490km/h (around 305mph) with the Chiron Super Sport 300+ in 2019, albeit in a one-way run, and Hennessey’s target is clear. If the F5 attempts the record, it’ll do so with the most powerful combustion engine on this list: a 1,817bhp 6.6-litre twin-turbocharged V8, and power going to its rear wheels alone.\n\n\nNEW Range Rover review: the best car in the world? | 4K\n\n\n4. Bugatti Tourbillon: 1,775bhp\n\n\nBugatti Tourbillon – front static11\n\nThe Bugatti Tourbillon isn’t the most powerful car here, but it’s surely one of the most exciting. Where electric power is now the default for making big numbers, the Tourbillon has the makings of a true engineering masterpiece, courtesy of its Cosworth-developed 8.3-litre V16 engine. From what we’ve heard so far, it’s a truly blue-blooded sound, and one with which no manner of digitally-assisted EVs can compete.\n\n\nThere is some electrification, with a pair of front motors and one at the rear, but their combined 789bhp contribution still plays second-fiddle to the V16’s 986bhp at 9,000rpm. Together, they deliver a claimed 0-62mph time of 2.0 seconds, and 277mph flat out. The Tourbillon is about more than numbers though: where its electric rivals get digital instruments no more exotic than you’d find in a £20k supermini, the Bugatti’s intricate gauges are as elegant as a Swiss watch.\n\n\n5. SSC Tuatara: 1,750bhp\n\n\nSSC Tuatara – front action11\n\nControversy over a top speed record attempt has unfortunately cast a shadow over the SSC Tuatara, which is otherwise one of the most dramatic and highly-developed hypercars around, and has pedigree in its styling too: it’s the work of Jason Castriota, who designed the last Maserati GranTurismo, the Ferrari 599, and the stunning Enzo-based Ferrari P4/5 for Jim Glickenhaus in 2006.\n\n\nAdvertisement – Article continues below\n\n\nWhile the Tuatara didn’t achieve its original 316mph two-way claim in 2020, a verified 295mph run in 2022 still puts it among the world’s fastest cars. Slick aero helps (a claimed drag coefficient of 0.279), but the car’s 5.9-litre, twin-turbocharged, flat-plane crank V8 also plays a rather large part, thanks to its 1,750bhp output. SSC even offers a 2,212bhp option, which would top this list, but it’s unclear whether any of these versions actually