When it comes to boasting about the fastest cars in the world, why restrict yourself to cars that actually exist? These ten rocket-powered, flying, impossible vehicle-things are what Jalopnik readers call the ten fastest comic book cars ever.
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Photo Credit: Jean Graton
10.) 1967 Shelby Mustang GT-500 from Gunsmith Cats
Suggested By: stephdumas
Top speed: 135mph
Why it's so fast: It has a 428ci V8 tuned by Shelby conservatively rated at 355 horsepower. While it might have the aerodynamics of a brick, the '67 super-Stang is fast enough in the capable hands of Irene "Rally" Vincent.
Photo Credit: Gunsmith Cats
9.) Spirou and Fantasio's Turbot 1
Suggested By: Kalile Jensen
Top speed: 149mph (240km/h)
Why it's so fast: This prototype front-wheel-drive roadster from 1952, the Turbot 1, got its power from a turbine engine, and got the two famous French journalists and their mysterious marsupial companion wherever they need to go.
Photo Credit: Spirou and Fantasio
8.) Seta's van from Love Hina
Suggested By: Tohru Rokuno
Top speed: At least 160-180mph
Why it's so fast: While it's only a Subaru Sambar kei van from the ‘90s, it can clearly be seen keeping up with a 747 during takeoff. We have no idea how the 660cc engine made that power. Also, the car had a submarine mode.
Photo Credit: Love Hina
7.) Devil Z from Wangan Midnight
Suggested By: Kiwi_Commander
Top speed: 180mph
Why it's so fast: You can leave your tofu delivery cars at home, because they just can't hang with the triple-carbureted, twin-turbocharged, 600-horsepower straight six in this 240Z, known for killing its owners.
Photo Credit: Wangan Night/evil-hanzel
6.) Buff the Roadbuster from Gunsmith Cats
Suggested By: Piloter, the Great Miscommunicator
Top speed: Over 180mph
Why it's so fast: Like an armor-plated cross between a Porsche 959 and a Ford RS200, "Buff" has a custom 427ci V8 putting out between 500 and 730 horsepower, depending on what you read. The owner, Bean Bandit, built the car himself from the ground up.
Photo Credit: Gunsmith Cats
5.) Vaillant F1
Suggested By: Jones Foyer
Top speed: 230mph
Why it's so fast: Michel Vaillant's Formula One cars were always as fast as any other in their day. When he was racing in the late ‘90s and early 2000's, he'd be able to keep up with the rest of the V10-powered pack up to 230 at Monza like Schumacher's F2002.
Photo Credit: Jean Graton
4.) The Batmobile
Suggested By: Picklehaube
Top speed: 230-350 mph
Why it's so fast: There have been hundreds of Batmobiles since the Dark Knight first got into a Graham-Page in 1941's Comics #48. The fastest of all was the 1990s afterburner-equipped version, with a claimed top speed of 230, plus a bonus 120mph with the flaming turbine boost.
Photo Credit: Detective Comics
3.) The Mach 5
Suggested By: mierdv
Top speed: 305mph
Why it's so fast: According to a very technical Road & Track test, Speed Racer's Mach 5 has an 800 horsepower V12 capable of sprinting the car to 60 in just 0.6 seconds and through the quarter mile in just two seconds more.
Photo Credit: Speed Racer: Mach GoGoGo Vol. 1-2
2.) Nick Fury's flying Porsche
Suggested By: Gamecat235
Top speed: 800 mph
Why it's so fast: We have no idea how SHIELD's Nick Fury got his Porsche 904 to fly, but with a service ceiling of 50,000 feet, it must have been about as fast as any fighter jet of the day.
Photo Credit: Marvel
1.) Blurr from Transformers
Suggested By: Project Thanatos
Top speed: 800 mph
Why it's so fast: The Autobot Blurr from the '86 Transformers got his name from the supersonic wake as he broke the speed of sound on land. He was powered by energon and could top out at Mach speeds, even on the ground.
Photo Credit: Hasbro