Santa’s Sleigh vs. The Fastest Cars in the World

Christmas is nearly upon us, meaning Saint Nick will be readying his sleigh to do Christmas Eve’s mammoth round-the-world trip and with that always comes the conversation surrounding what Santa’s car would look like.

New research from car leasing company Leasing Options has revealed that in a standard car travelling at 60mph, delivering presents to over 2.3 billion households would take over 75 years to deliver.  But would Santa be able to make it in some of the world’s fastest cars?

In the festive spirit, motoring experts Leasing Options have crunched the numbers to reveal how long Santa’s journey would take in the world’s fastest cars and EVs.

How long would Santa’s Christmas Eve journey take in the world’s fastest cars?

With a top speed of 304.7mph, the world’s fastest car, the Bugatti Chiron would take 14 years to complete Santa’s Christmas Eve trip. It comes in at over 5 years faster than the 10th fastest car, the McLaren F1 which has a top speed of 240mph.

Car Model	Top Speed	How long would it take Santa? (Hours)	How long would it take Santa? (Years)
Bugatti Chiron Super Sport 300+	305mph	131,095	14
SSC Tuatara	295mph	135,406	15
Koegnigsegg Agera RS	278mph	143,789	16
Hennessey Venom GY	270mph	147,725	17
Bugatti Veyron Super Sport	268mph	149,159	17
SSC Ultimate Aero TT	256mph	155,974	18
Bugatti Veyron	254mph	157,387	18
McLaren Speedtail	250mph	159,779	18
Koenigsegg CCR	241mph	165,677	19
McLaren F1	240mph	166,367	19

How long would Santa’s Christmas Eve journey take in the world’s fastest EVs?

But with cars comes emissions - and if Santa was doing that journey in an ICE vehicle, he’d emit almost 16,000 metric tons of emissions. Just doing one round-trip would take growing over 19,000 forest acres for ten years to offset them.

While we’re pretty certain reindeers give zero emissions, Leasing Options also crunched the numbers of how long Santa’s journey would take in the world’s fastest EVs.

They found the Rimac Nevera would take nearly 155 hours (or 18 years) to complete Santa’s Christmas Eve trip.

Car Model	Top Speed	How long would it take Santa? (Hours)	How long would it take Santa? (Years)
Rimac Nevera	258mph	154,825	18
Aspark Owl	249mph	160,241	18
Pininfarina Battisa	217mph	184,077	21
Lotus Evija	200mph	199,724	23
Tesla Model S Plaid	200mph	199,724	23
NIO EP9	194mph	205,901	24
Lucid Air Dream Edition Performance	169mph	236,360	27
Tesla Model X Plaid	163mph	245,060	28
Tesla Model 3 Performance	162mph	245,573	28
Porsche Taycan Turbo	161mph	247,104	28

 

 

Despite the Nevera being the fastest when compared to any other EVs, it just doesn’t compare to his sleigh. Leasing Options revealed that, in order to make it in 24 hours, Santa would need to go at least 1,664,369mph. That’s the speed of the fastest aircraft in the world, the Lockheed SR-71 which can reach speeds of 2,100mph.