Bombshell Betty, a 1952 land speed racer and two-time World Speed Record breaker, tears across the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. Christopher Wilson A car sits idle on the Bonneville Salt Flats as ...

This is due to the fact that in the early days when rulesets were being figured out, there simply were no “production ... is a former Le Mans car turned land speed racer, which set the ...

The EXE181 is inspired by the legendary EX181, built to shatter land-speed records in the 1950s ... one of the world’s most aerodynamic production cars, has a Cd figure of 0.197.

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 ...