[mikeash]

One of the meanings of "old" is "former or previous."

And I see no irony. The teaser tweet is stated using the future tense. It will be the fastest car in production once it comes, unless some other car maker has a big surprise between now and then.

As for the Wikipedia stuff, I offer no defense of it, but I'm not surprised. Wikipedia suffers from plenty of fanboyism.

[FireBeyond]

"We don't compare against cars not currently in production. Our car, not currently in production, is faster."

But it's not the biggest thing in the world. :)

[mikeash]

Replace "is" with "will be" and the strangeness goes away.

There's also the weird aspect that the car itself has been sold for months, they'll just become faster once the update hits.