Now, Bugatti Veyron, the 250MPH scorcher of a supercar, gets some competition, and some very stiff one at that from the new fastest production car on the planet, the SSC Ultimate Aero. And all this on Fleabay, sorry eBay. The Shelby Super Cars’ Aero has all the firepower under it’s hood and it’s beautiful low slung, asphalt hugging, aerodynamic form to bruise some Veyron owners’ ego very badly and actually hustle a Veyron. That is quite a statement to make. But, the very hot looking SSC Aero has a Corvette heart in it, albeit with some major trick modifying which sees the vette’s 6187cc V8 engine pump out a tyre eating 800 BHP. With this kind of raw muscle power, the Aero does a top speed of 400.7 kph and can pull from nought to sixty in three blinks of your eye, yeah it can do it in 3.1 seconds. Quick and fast are understatements. Jet-like would be apt. That is what Brute American super Muscle can do. And as Sir Shelby likes his cars very goodlooking and light, the Aero has a very stylish body built with some extensive use of carbon fiber and titanium and the Aero also has the classy scissor doors, like the Ferraris and Lamborghinis.

The Aero looks very fast just while standing still. Is that not what all real supercars worth their dough do? And now for the real humdinger, the Aero got the winning bid of $585,900, just $1 more than the listing’s original Buy it Now price of $585,899. That is quarter a million Greenbacks for a Veyron bashing performance. Affordable, of course is a very relative term.

via Jalopnik