The official land-speed record (measured over one mile) is 1,227.985 km/h (763.035 mi/h) (Mach 1.020), set by Andy Green (UK) on 15 October 1997 in the Black Rock Desert, Nevada, USA, in Thrust SSC. The car is powered by two Rolls-Royce Spey 202 jet engines which generate 222...
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Shelby SuperCars (SSC), a Washington-based private car company in North America has set a new top speed record for a production car. The car hit an average speed of 316.1 mph on a seven-mile stretch of closed road. Earlier Bugatti hit 304.77 mph (490.48 km/h). But Bugatti...
With a combination of beauty, power and speed, sports cars never cease to put stars in the eyes of young and old alike. Ever since the first fast car was built (the Bugatti Type 41 Royale, which appeared in the 1920s and reached speeds of up to 124 miles per hour), the speedometer ...
The title of "fastest production car in the world" is, perhaps, the most prestigious in the world of performance cars. It takes a very special car to break the production speed record - it has to have incredible engine power (well over 1000 metric horsepower), low coefficient of drag and...
On Saturday, A Koenigsegg Agera RS driven by factory test driver Niklas Lilja recorded a two-way average speed of 277.9 mph (444.6 km/h) on an 11-mile section of closed public highway between Las Vegas and Pahrump to claim the highest speed ever recorded by a production car.It...
Car (land-speed record) On 15 October 1997, Thrust SSC became the first car to break the sound barrier when it reached 1,227.985 km/h (763.035 mph; Mach 1.020) over 1 mi (1.6 km) in the Black Rock Desert, Nevada, USA. The resultant sonic boom caused s...
Watching this film and processing the numbers it’s hard to imagine it ever being bettered. After all, it was 13 years ago that SSC stunned the automotive nobility when it set the production car speed record by hitting 255, taking the title from Bugatti with the added validation of Guinness...
Weeks after the re-creation of the 1934 speed record attempt, a local car show in Salt Lake City featured both the Meteor and the Pierce Special, celebrating Ab Jenkins' and Hollansworth's accomplishments.EBSCO_bspAutoWeek
mander Andy Green will be in the hot seat for the car’s record attempt, and is hoping to break the present land speed record of 763mph (1,228km/h) which he himself set in 1997. The time trial is scheduled for 2011 and will take place on a 10-mile-long track in a desert in...