The top speed achieved by the SSC Thrust, as recorded by the Guinness Book of World Records and the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile, was 763.035 miles per hour, or 1,227.985 kilometers ...

Thrust SSC set a two-way average of 763mph, or Mach 1.015, exactly 50 years and a day after the first Mach 1 flight. Thrust SSC breaks the sound barrier.

On October 10, racing driver Oliver Webb got behind the wheel of one of SSC's new Tuatara hypercars and, on a closed stretch of Nevada State Route 160, reached a top speed of 331.15mph (532.93km/h).

SSC founder Jerod Shelby has questions about Bugatti's 304.77-mph top speed claim. His 1750-hp Tuatara smashed that record with a 316-mph two-way average speed.

A Eurojet EJ200 turbofan, pulled from the Eurofighter Typhoon, will provide more than 20,000 lb.-ft. of thrust, while the NAMMO HPT liquid-fueled rocket will provide over 27,000 lb.-ft. of thrust ...

A follow-up to the Thrust 2, the jet-power car that broke the land speed record in 1983, the SSC looked more like a wingless jet fighter than a car. Yes, it had four wheels, but they were hidden ...

It's a cloudy morning in August 2014 and, on an industrial estate on the outskirts of Avonmouth near Bristol, a team of engineers is at work on Thrust's successor.The car, Bloodhound SSC, marks a ...

This is the Bloodhound SSC. When finished, it will be powered by a jet engine bolted to a rocket. Together they will produce 47,500 pounds of thrust. And the retired Royal Air Force pilot who ...

With a 1000-mph land-speed record in sight, we check in with the mighty Bloodhound SSC. Search. Cars By Category; Expert Reviews; ... Thrust SSC’s run to a just-supersonic 763 mph in 1997.

Way back in 1997 the first supersonic car ever built smashed the world land speed record. The Thrust SSC was silent in its menacing and deliberate approach, until it finally passed you with a ...

Green holds the current record, hitting 763mph (1,228km/h) in the Thrust SSC in 1997. The Bloodhound is expected to top 1,000mph on its run, which will take place on Hakseen Pan, ...

Twenty years after Thrust SSC went supersonic, there’s a new kid on the block – and it wants to claim its crown. The Bloodhound SSC hopes to top Thrust SSC’s 763.035 mph world land speed ...