That title currently belongs to the Thrust SSC, which in 1997 became the first ... The Evo variant was a design study to see just how fast such a car could go without the hindrance of racing ...

The "car" in question is the Thrust SSC, and it managed to achieve that record thanks to a couple of Rolls-Royce Spey 202 jet engines. The top speed achieved by the SSC Thrust, as recorded by the ...

The Bloodhound SSC hopes to top Thrust SSC’s 763.035 mph world land speed record with an attempt to reach 800 mph in October 2017. New funding means the Bloodhound project – which was shown in London ...

How fast can go a car with a 2.4-liter V8 Cosworth ... and so far the only land vehicle that has broken the sound barrier, the Thrust SSC. The pilot was wing commander Andy Green who is also ...

Twenty-six years ago, in the spring of 1997, this outrageous rocket on wheels broke the sound barrier and became the fastest land vehicle ever built. The automobile was created to revolutionize ...

Thrust SSC is a well-known name for it is the first ... land speed record of 205.5 km/h on the Dayton Beach Road Course. Fast-forward to 1927, enter Sunbeam 1000HP. Ironically called ‘The ...

the British Bloodhound Supersonic Car (SSC) 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 ...

Currently holding the record at 763 mph is Andy Green, who piloted the Thrust SSC in 1997 ... hybrid rocket system takes over to push it as fast as 1,000 mph. Jaguar also contributes with a ...

A car built to go 1000 mph has completed its first public tests. The Bloodhound SSC is a jet and rocket-powered streamliner that uses a Formula 1 engine as a fuel pump. The needle-nose car made ...

Sure, you have the Thrust SSC, as mentioned earlier ... The Evo variant was a design study to see just how fast such a car could go without the hindrance of racing regulations, and the answer ...