Back in February 2024 we stumbled upon a LEGO Ideas project centered around ... 8.8 million pounds of thrust, 15 percent more than what the previous record holder, the Saturn V rocket of 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 ...

This is the Bloodhound SSC. Or, at least ... Think of it like a NASA-grade Lego set, but assembled with 22,500 rivets holding it all together. Thrust comes from a Rolls-Royce EJ200 engine ...

The "car" in question is the Thrust SSC, and it managed to achieve that record thanks to a couple of Rolls-Royce Spey 202 jet engines. The top speed achieved by the SSC Thrust, as recorded by the ...

The desire to break the land speed record goes back to the earliest days of the motor car, where inventors would compete against each other to see whose machine was the fastest. The race hit its ...

A rocket-powered car is on track to set a land speed record of 1000 mph, the Wall Street Journal reports. The Bloodhound SSC is the brainchild of Richard Noble, the British creator of Thrust SSC ...

Back in 1997, a group of enterprising British engineers established the current record at 763mph with the jet-powered Thrust SSC, driven by Andy Green. The core of that same team is now back with ...

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 ...

If Batman existed in real life, we think he’d own something like the Thrust SSC or Super Sonic Car. In case you don’t remember, the car that looks like some sort of mutant airplane set the land speed ...

You get a sense of the sound from the video. You can read more about that project on the Thrust SSC website, which itself is a time capsule back to the early days of Internet 1.0. (“Best ...