An arrow-shaped car designed to reach supersonic speeds — it's outfitted with a jet engine and its own parachute braking system — just reached 501 mph (806 km/h) in tests in the Kalahari ...

Ron Ayers, the man behind the world's fastest car, the Thrust SSC, passed away at the age of 92. His vehicle was designed to hit supersonic speeds and break records, and it did just that in 1997.

The Thrust SSC is not competing in races right now. However, the public can witness the record-breaking car in Coventry, England, at the Coventry Transport Museum, where it is on display.

The highest speed ever achieved by a car on land, the Thrust SSC, is 763.035 mph (1,227.9 kph), and was set in 1997.

Thrust SSC (Image credit: Vauxford) 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.

Building a vehicle capable of going 1,000 miles per hour on land isn't something you do overnight. The folks behind the Bloodhound SSC project have been working toward reaching that insane speed ...

Unlike the Thrust SSC, the new Bloodhound is propelled by a combination of a jet turbine engine, alongside a primary hybrid rocket engine, providing a combined total of more than 135,000 hp ...

The Bloodhound supersonic car (SSC) will weigh aprox. 14,000lbs, it will be 42 ft. long, made entirely of carbon fiber, have a jet, rocket, and piston engine, it will run on 35.5" wheels, and more ...