Dubbed Thrust SuperSonic Car (or Thrust SSC, for short), the record-breaking ... literally requiring a ton of fuel for each record-breaking run. While building a behemoth like the SSC required ...

It's been 20 years since the Thrust SSC made its record-breaking speed run, becoming the only car to ever travel faster than the speed of sound. Yet as its driver explains, it wasn't as simple as ...

Unsurprisingly, the car drank a huge amount of fuel, averaging around 0.4 mpg over the run, according to the Land Speed Record website. The Thrust SSC weighed about 10 tons, which presented the ...

The Thrust SSC was silent in its menacing and ... This is the inside story of that run. The Guinness Book of World Records, the ultimate arbiter of all things that are the biggest or the smallest ...

And towards the end of the run, the team realized the car produced a massive sonic boom in the Nevada desert. It's the only car ever to do so. The Thrust SSC's record still stands today ...

But the current world record is held by a rather special machine, and it has remained intact for over two decades. The "car" in question is the Thrust SSC, and it managed to achieve that record ...

In 1977, Thrust1 completed its first run, and after it crashed in ... Unlike previous record-breaking vehicles, the Thrust SSC was powered by two jet engines. Both gargantuan units were Rolls ...

Before each run, volunteers have to walk the entire ... He also thinks it's possible they won't be the first to beat Thrust SSC. Six other land speed record projects are underway, some more ...

The needle-nose car made two runs Newquay Airport in Cornwall, U.K., on Thursday with land speed record holder Andy ... when he hit 763.035 in the Thrust SSC. This time, he only reached 210 ...

effort has been working on a rocket-powered car it hopes to use to smash the vehicular land speed record, currently held by the 763-mph Thrust SSC with a 1,000-plus mph run. We’ve followed the ...

A privately-financed bid for the world land speed record has come to a halt with funding exhausted. Britain-based Bloodhound Programme Limited was developing a car called the Bloodhound SSC in an ...