When we talk about speed, the usual names that pop up in the mind are Koenigsegg, Pagani, and Bugatti, often in the same vein as words like twin-turbo V8, carbon fiber chassis, and next-gen ...

The Thrust SSC was so unthinkably hardcore that it took a fighter jet pilot to drive it on its record-breaking run. With RAF Wing Commander Andy Green at the helm, the Thrust SSC not only broke the ...

Twenty-six years ago, in the spring of 1997, this outrageous rocket on wheels broke the sound barrier and became the fastest land vehicle ever built. The automobile was created to revolutionize ...

In 2007, a little-known American company shook the Hypercars world. SSC North America, then called Shelby Supercars, rolled out the Ultimate Aero TT and dethroned the almighty Bugatti Veyron with a ...

On the morning of October 15, 1997, a dust trail streaked across Nevada's Black Rock Desert. At its apex, driver Andy Green braced himself at the wheel of thrust SSC as the jet-powered car reached ...

Jerod Shelby, founder and CEO of American supercar maker SCC, helped design the criteria Guinness World Records uses to validate a "world's fastest production car" claim. His company followed Guinness ...

Christian Von Koenigsegg is confident that his company still has the production car speed record that was obtained back in 2017 with the Agera RS. Here’s why he dismisses Bugatti’s own record. We’ll ...

Even though they still own the land speed record, which the Thrust SSC set on October 15, 1997 at 763 mph, Richard Noble, and Andy Green have returned to the quest for the world's fastest land vehicle ...

Cast your mind back to the mid-2000s. Bugatti unveiled the Veyron at the 2005 Geneva Motor Show and, just a few months later, stunned the world by reaching a top speed of 253.8 mph, claiming the land ...

You didn’t expect Bugatti to just sit around while someone else broke its record, did you? Less than one week after the SSC Tautara bested the speed record once held by the Bugatti Chiron, the French ...