That title currently belongs to the Thrust SSC, which in 1997 became the first (and so far only) car to break the sound barrier, achieving a 763.04 mile-per-hour land speed record. Although it's ...

just 14 years after the advent of the Benz Patent Motor Car, the first ever automobile, a French vehicle called the La Jamais Contente (The Never Satisfied in English) set a land speed record of ...

Ahead of the final two races of Season 9 in London, Formula E showed off the "unlocked" potential of its Gen3 electric race car. The EV series has claimed the world record for indoor land speed ...

Jessi Combs' ultimately fatal quest to break world land speed records ... to break the record and making the attempt in her North American Eagle Supersonic Speed Challenger, which was built ...

American racer William Kissam Vanderbilt II was the first to break the record in an internal combustion engine, hitting 76 mph in a French-made Mors car in 1902. The current land speed record is ...

The Bloodhound supersonic car reached 628 miles per hour in 2019, but the team hopes to pass 1,000 miles per hour with the addition of a rocket Courtesy of the Bloodhound Land-Speed Record Project ...

Nearly 50 years ago, on Oct. 23, 1970, the Milwaukee-built Blue Flame rocket car blasted through the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, setting a world land speed record of 622.407 mph for the "flying ...

But the oil light came on at the first mile and the car was pulled over, dissolving any hope of two separate land speed records for the same car — at least for now. Records are made to be broken ...

Nearly a year after her land-speed record ... Combs’ certified speed still beats the previous record of 512.71 mph set in 1976 by Kitty O’Neil in a three-wheeled car at the same desert.

We lost racer, fabricator and television personality Jessi Combs last August, after she crashed her jet-powered land-speed-record car in the ... Eagle Supersonic Speed Challenger to 483 mph ...

Nearly a year after Jessi Combs was killed attempting to break the land-speed record ... a52,000-hpjet car called the North American Eagle Supersonic Speed Challenger. Tragedy struck when its ...

Land Speed Record (LSR) cars are divided into two ... For example, printout information from Danny Thompson's 5,200 lb. Challenger II car record run in 2018 shows the car accelerated 134 mph ...