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 ...

A rocket-powered car is on track to set a land speed record of 1000 mph, the Wall Street Journal reports. The Bloodhound SSC is the brainchild of Richard Noble, the British creator of Thrust SSC, ...

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 ...

The current landspeed record, which sits at 763 mph (1,228 km/h), is being threatened. The record was set by the Thrust SSC back in 1997 in the Black Rock Desert, Nevada. The Thrust SSC project’s ...

Currently, the land speed record is an astonishing 763 mph set by the Thrust supersonic car (SSC). But that record might fall by the end of next year, as the Bloodhound SSC aims to go over 800 mph ...

The Bloodhound is a supersonic land speed car built to smash the world speed record that was set in 1997 by Andy Green, who piloted the Thrust SSC to 736mph. He came on to the Bloodhound project to ...