The Bloodhound SSC crew has two missions in mind with their upcoming land speed machine—break the standing land speed record of 763.035 miles per hour, then go onto beat that by eclipsing 1,000 mph.

After breaking the sound barrier of 1,223 kilometers per hour with Thrust SSC, a British team is building Bloodhound SSC to cross the 1,600-kph mark Apart from a brief break in the 1960s and 1970s, ...

Getting a car to crest the 250-mph mark takes over 1,000 horsepower. Just ask the engineers behind the Bugatti Veyron or virtually any of the competitors at events like the Texas Mile. It's a heck of ...

The Thrust SSC broke the world land speed record back in 1997, achieving an official top speed of 1,228 km/h (763 mph), with the use of two Rolls Royce turbofan engines. Now, the bat will be raised ...

Bloodhound SSC has tested the rocket engine powering the car it plans to use to break the land speed record. The car uses a jet engine supplied by the UK government. It's the same Rolls-Royce EJ200 ...

Setting a new land speed record used to be all about taking the brave pill and keeping the acceleration floored. But as land speed records have ventured past the speed of sound, communication is just ...

LONDON (Reuters) - The British team behind a project to build a 1,000-mph car have cleared a key hurdle with a successful test of the rocket they hope will push the vehicle well beyond the sound ...

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 two ...

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 ...

The Bloodhound SSC represents the latest edition in Britains fine tradition in land speed records. The current land speed record stands at 763mph and was set by the British designed Thrust SSC.

Human beings achieved many ‘firsts’ in the 20th century. We climbed the planet’s highest mountains, dived its deepest undersea trench, flew over it faster than the speed of sound, and even escaped it ...