Cyberpunk 2077 Best Car: Yaiba Semimaru vs Caliburn Mordred, Fastest?

After playing 1000’s of hours in this game and using a variety of cars I thought it might be time to answer two age-old questions – which is the best car in Cyberpunk 2077, and which is the fastest car in Cyberpunk 2077.

The fastest car in Cyberpunk is a tie between Yaiba’s Semimaru and Rayfield’s Mordred. Both cars top out at 211 mph (~339 km/h). You can achieve this on down ramps when exiting the freeways. The listed top speeds of both are 210 mph (~338 km/h) and you’ll hit these on the long looped highways if you maintain your line during the flat straight roads.

OK – so what is the best car? I think that requires more investigation, so we’ve created this side-by-side below, and the true answer is that it is situational.

Which Car is Better: Yaibu ARV-Q340 Semimaru vs Rayfield Caliburn “Mordred”

Yaiba ARV-Q340 Semimaru in Cyberpunk 2077

Yaiba ARV-Q340

Semimaru

Top speed: 210 mph

Horsepower: 1,690 hp

Weight: 1,670 kg

Handling: Loose, Drifty

Cornering: Quick Turn-in, Feather the Throttle

Recovery: Punishing if You Clip a Wall

Weapons: None

Bulletproof tyres: No

How to get it: Motorbreath Gig

Rayfield Caliburn Mordred in Cyberpunk 2077

Rayfield Caliburn

Mordred

Top speed: 210 mph

Horsepower: 1,660 hp

Weight: 1,690 hp

Handling: Max Grip, Predictable

Cornering: Clean Through Fast Corners

Recovery: Forgiving if you Oversteer

Weapons: Yes

Bulletproof tyres: Yes

How to get it: Freedom Gig

For me Yaibu’s Semimaru is the better car to drive, whilst it is driftier, it feels lighter and if you are a wild driver like me that prefers handbrake turning into corners then the Semimaru will be the better daily drive for you.

However, Rayfield’s Mordred is your one-man-army run-and-gun tank. With bulletproof tyres and machine guns in the front of this thing, you are practically invulnerable whilst driving it. It’s fast, furious and fun!

Japanese Blades vs Arthurian Legend: Yaiba and Rayfield

Both of these cars come from manufacturers that name their machines after legendary swords. They just pull from very different legends.

Yaiba: The Blade

Yaiba literally means blade in Japanese, and the company leans right into it. Its bike, the Kusanagi, is named after Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi, the legendary sword that’s one of Japan’s three Imperial Regalia. The lore has Yaiba building it in collaboration with Arasaka. Then there’s the Muramasa, named after the swordsmith whose blades were said to be cursed, hungry for blood.

The Semimaru is the odd one out. It’s named after a blind poet and biwa player from Heian-era legend, not a sword. A poet in a lineup of blades, which suits the car you take for its feel, not its firepower.

Rayfield: The Round Table

Rayfield goes full Camelot. The Caliburn is Excalibur’s older name. The Aerondight is Lancelot’s sword, and Witcher fans will recognise the name, since CDPR gave Geralt a sword called Aerondight too. And the Aerondight variant is called “Guinevere”; Lancelot’s sword named after the queen he had the affair with, the betrayal that started Camelot’s fall. The Aerondight ‘Guinevere’ even looks the part; all curves and elegance, nothing like the Mordred’s sharp, aggressive lines.

Then there’s the aforementioned Mordred, the son who killed the king, driven by the son who killed the king.

Rayfield even sounds British in-game. Read Arlene Anwyl’s shard from the Mordred heist, with “bloody hell” and “arsehole”, and it’s very much a Rayfield International team from across the pond.