It should be no surprise, then, that the internal combustion engine and the land-speed record have evolved at roughly the same pace over the last century or so. In order to celebrate the ...

The Thrust SSC is the fastest land vehicle ever according to the Guinness Book of World Records, with a max speed that defies ...

It's estimated that the car hit 104 mph on this run, but the fatal incident caused the US to ban public record runs, hence why the Torpedo doesn't get credit for breaking 100 mph. Land speed ...

Toyota's Land Speed Cruiser hits 230 mph, boasting 2,000 hp from a turbo V8, redefining SUV performance standards.

Inspired by the backyard engineering of land-speed ... Ford Zephyr 6 draft car (complete with column-mounted manual shifter), but he'll need a draft car with a higher top speed if he wants to ...

The Bloodhound supersonic car is back, under new management and preparing to renew its pursuit of the land speed record. The project went into administration last year, unable to secure the ...

At 3.6 miles per minute, the Bloodhound Supersonic Car has the potential to break the world-land-speed record. Produced by Emma Fierberg. Video courtesy of Reuters. Follow BI Video: On Facebook ...

In 1926, Babs became the world's fastest car by reaching a speed of 171.02 mph.In the 1920s Pendine Sands in Carmarthenshire became famous in the story of the World Land Speed Record. The long ...

Land speed record cars are two to four times as fast as Indy, NASCAR, or Formula 1 cars. And the rules are wide open. So long as the car rolls on wheels, pretty much anything goes. Yet despite the ...

Former world land speed record holder ... set of skidmarks when he lost control of his jet-propelled world record-setting car, the Spirit of America, at the Bonneville salt flats in Utah on ...

The Lola-Drayson B12/69EV is a former Le Mans car turned land speed racer, which set the current 500 kg -1000 kg EV land speed record back in 2013. The Autolite Lead Wedge, recently for sale by ...