Not only did the Thrust SSC break records, it also broke the sound barrier. But that’s not the only cool thing about this magnificent machine.

On October 15, 1997, the Thrust SSC set a World Land Speed Record of 760.035 mph, and becoming the first and only car to break the sound barrier. That record may not stand for much longer, though.

While this was more than enough to set a new world land speed record, it failed to achieve the goal of breaking the sound barrier. Therefore, the SSC team returned to the Black Rock Desert on ...

Furthermore, Chuck Yeager from the US first broke the sound barrier in a rocket plane called the Bell X-1, which was 50 years and one day before him. The Thrust SSC is not competing in races right ...

In 1947 Chuck Yeager flew his Bell X-1 faster than sound and into history. Fifty years and a day later, a jet-powered car broke through the sound barrier on the ground and set a new land speed record.

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 ...

It has been 20 years since the Thrust SSC became the first car to break the sound barrier and set a land speed record of 763 mph (1,228 km/h). Work is currently being done on breaking the 1,000 ...

In 1997, former Royal Air Force fighter pilot Andy Green became the first person to break the sound barrier on land with the Thrust SSC -- the world's fastest car Getty Images ...

Watch this: Bloodhound SSC: Breaking the sound barrier and on to 1,000mph -- on four wheels ... Newsround would talk about Thrust SSC, a car that would break the land speed record.

Breaking the sound barrier ... The only car ever to go faster than the speed of sound is Thrust SSC, which set the existing land speed record of 763 mph (1,228 km/h) in Nevada in 1997.

This Guinness-World Record Breaking Car is so fast that it needed a parachute to be slowed down! There is only one car in history that has ever broken the sound barrier, and it's called "Thrust ...