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China's Yangwang U9 Xtreme becomes the fastest production car in the world!

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For decades, the pursuit of the production car top speed record has been a contest fought on the hallowed ground of European engineering. Names like Bugatti and Koenigsegg became legends, their multi-million-dollar behemoths representing the absolute peak of internal combustion capabilities. Now, that era has come to a silent, devastatingly fast end. The new king of speed is not from Molsheim or Ängelholm, but from China. At the ATP test facility in Germany, the Yangwang U9 Xtreme—an all-electric hypercar from BYD's luxury sub-brand—set a new world record of 308.4mph or 496.22km/h. This isn't just a number on a leaderboard; it's a symbolic shift in the automotive world.