Automakers also looked into alternate methods of propulsion during this period: one often-forgotten area of automotive ...

Ayers and Green are no strangers to land-speed records. They were part of the team that worked on the Thrust SSC (supersonic car), which blazed ... designed Nammo rocket. Tires would blow out ...

The team behind Bloodhound Supersonic Car is aiming to break the world land speed record by traveling 1,000 ... as well as a combination of jet and rocket technology. In September, the project ...

Bombshell Betty, a 1952 land speed racer and two-time World Speed Record breaker, tears across the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. Christopher Wilson A car sits idle on the Bonneville Salt Flats as ...

A Maserati MC20 Coupe with no one in the driver’s seat set a new land speed record for autonomous vehicles, reaching 197.7mph (318km/h) during an automotive event at the Kennedy Space Center last week ...

At 3.6 miles per minute, the Bloodhound Supersonic Car has the potential to break the world-land-speed record. Produced by Emma Fierberg. Video courtesy of Reuters. Follow BI Video: On Facebook ...

In 1926, Babs became the world's fastest car by reaching a speed of 171.02 mph.In the 1920s Pendine Sands in Carmarthenshire became famous in the story of the World Land Speed Record. The long ...

Gone are the days when someone bolted a huge engine into a little tiny car and then just pointed ... to loose control of the rocket-powered Blond Bombshell on Pendine Sands, allegedly exceeding the ...