We live in the long tail of land-speed records. For most of the past century, the title of fastest human on wheels traded hands every couple of years — until the speeds began to rise to the point ...

There is only one car in history that has ever broken the sound barrier, and it's called "Thrust SuperSonic Car," which achieved this feat back in October 1997 after reaching speeds of 763 miles per ...

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 ...

Tudor was lucky enough to be in Wales just as Sebastien Loeb was securing his 8th World Rally Championship title during Wales Rally GB 2011 and wrote a guest blog for ITV News covering the rally ...

In 1997, the Thrust SSC team landed a world record when its car set the world land-speed record of 763 mph. But, taking a car like the Thrust SSC to speeds above 700 mph isn't a simple as holding the ...

Way back in 1997 the first supersonic car ever built smashed the world land speed record. The Thrust SSC was silent in its menacing and deliberate approach, until it finally passed you with a wallop ...

On October 14, 1947, high above California’s Antelope Valley, Charles “Chuck” Yeager became the fastest man alive. That day Yeager—an Appalachian farm boy-turned-fighter ace—flew an experimental ...

It’s the 20th anniversary of the Thrust SSC’s run. Up next, the Bloodhound. Next week, the Bloodhound Project folks will stage an event on a 1.7-mile runway at Cornwall Airport Newquay in southwestern ...

It has been 20 years since the Thrust SSC became the first car to break the sound barrier and set a land speed record of 763 mph (1,228 km/h). Work is currently being done on breaking the 1,000 mph (1 ...

A jet and rocket-powered car designed to go faster than sound is back on track. The British-built Bloodhound car is theoretically capable of traveling at 1,000 mph. That's Mach 1.3 – about 240 mph ...

A team of UK engineers have set themselves a three-year target to design and build a car capable of reaching 1000 miles per hour to smash the current land-speed record by nearly 300 mph. In 1997, ...