Some records feel like a sacrifice to break. Almost three decades ago, at the Ehra-Lessien test track in Germany, the McLaren F1 set a high bar for production cars at a top speed of 243 miles per hour. The engine was pure — no extra turbochargers or hybrid complexity, just a V12 pushed to the absolute limit. Even all these years later, the F1 remains the fastest non-hybrid, naturally aspirated vehicle ever produced.
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