The 10 Fastest Cars in CSR2, and What Separates Them

It is the first thing anyone asks about CSR Racing 2 and the hardest thing to get a straight answer to. Search it and you get tier lists from three updates ago, videos with a car in the thumbnail that is not actually the fastest, and forum threads where everyone names whatever they happen to own.

The record sheet answers it directly. These are the ten quickest times anybody has recorded, in order, with the figures that go with them.

First to tenth is 0.074 seconds

That is the number to sit with. The entire top ten of a game with 1,309 recorded cars is covered by less than a tenth of a second. Ninth and tenth are an exact dead heat at 6.579.

This has a practical consequence that most tier lists miss completely. If you are chasing the outright record, you are fighting over thousandths and a single mistimed shift costs you five places. If you are trying to get into the top ten rather than win it, the gap you need to close is smaller than the gap a good launch is worth. Those are very different projects, and the second one is far more achievable than the leaderboard makes it look.

All ten have identical PP

Every car in that table records 713 PP. Not clustered around it — exactly 713, all ten.

So the number the game shows you most often has zero resolving power at the sharp end. It cannot separate first from tenth because it does not vary between them. If you have ever compared two end-game cars by PP and concluded they were equivalent, this is why that felt wrong.

All ten are also Tier 5, and all ten carry purple stars. There is no Tier 4 car and no gold-star car anywhere near this list.

EVO spreads 174 points and still does not order them

EVO varies far more than PP here: 2,525 at the bottom of the ten to 2,699 at the top. You would expect that to sort the list. It does not.

The Honda Hoonigan Indy Truck sits second overall on 2,525 EVO, the lowest figure in the top ten. The Apollo S sits third on 2,677, a full 152 points higher. The De Tomaso P900 Concept records 2,622 and finishes tenth, behind cars with less.

Across the whole Tier 5 field EVO is an excellent predictor — it tracks recorded time at a correlation of about -0.96. It simply stops working as a tiebreaker once everything is compressed into hundredths. The field is spread across hundreds of EVO points while the times are spread across seventy-four thousandths, so the two scales have come apart.

The dyno gap varies by a factor of ten

This is the column that actually tells you something useful about owning these cars. The last column is how much the real recorded run beat the game's own prediction, and it is not remotely consistent:

• Honda Hoonigan Indy Truck finds 0.336 seconds over its dyno — the largest in the top ten by a wide margin.
• Chevrolet Ringbrothers ENYO finds 0.206. McLaren Solus GT finds 0.183.
• BTTF Part III, the outright record holder, finds 0.029. BTTF Part II finds 0.034.
• Median across the ten: 0.106 seconds.

Read that against the ranking and something interesting falls out. The Time Machine is first overall while giving back almost nothing to driving — its dyno was already 6.534, so the car is essentially running at its ceiling. The Hoonigan Truck is six thousandths behind it while finding 0.336 seconds that the dyno never accounted for.

In practice that means the two cars behave completely differently in your hands. The Time Machine will produce something close to its recorded time without much from you. The truck will not — it needs the launch and the shifts, and a mediocre driver will be nowhere near 6.511 in it. If you drive well, the truck has more in it. If you do not, it is the worse car despite sitting higher.

Nine of the ten are not Elite Customs cars

Only the Shelby GT350 in fourth carries an Elite Customs tag, at level 36. The other nine reached the top ten without it.

That is worth knowing before you spend months of parts on an EC climb hoping to reach this list. Elite Customs is extraordinarily effective at moving a mid-pack car forwards — the Toyota Supra goes from 873rd to 151st in its tier on it — but the outright top of the game is mostly occupied by cars that were already there.

What this list is not

It is a record of what the best recorded run on each car was, not a prediction of what yours will do. Every time here was set on a fully built, correctly fused, purple-star car driven close to perfectly. Your copy of any of these will be slower, and the gap will be largest on exactly the cars with the biggest dyno margin.

It also moves. Records get beaten, new cars arrive, and we do not independently verify individual runs — these are community-compiled figures and we host them as such. Treat the order as the best available snapshot rather than a settled ranking, and tell us if something here is out of date.

And it says nothing about whether you can get these cars. Several arrive only through limited events. A car you cannot obtain is not a choice, however fast it is on paper.

The short version

• The BTTF Part III Time Machine holds the outright record at 6.505.
• First to tenth is 0.074 seconds. Ninth and tenth are tied exactly.
• All ten are Tier 5, all ten are purple star, and all ten record 713 PP — so PP tells you nothing here.
• EVO ranges over 174 points across the ten and does not order them.
• Driving is worth between 0.029 and 0.336 seconds depending on which car you pick.

You can check every figure above in the record database, sorted however you like. Nothing on this page is an opinion we are asking you to take on trust.