This mark tops the 403mph (648km/h) recorded by Donald Campbell in his Bluebird CN7 car ... wasn't running under proper land speed record rules. These require a car to make two runs through ...

The Bluebird is the fastest electric vehicle in Europe. The present car - the second powered by electricity to be built under the name - holds the UK land speed record for electric vehicles at ...

The family bent makes sense, since Bluebird is named for a car Sir Malcolm Campbell, Wales' grandfather, who raced a century ago. Campbell set a number of land speed records, as did his son Donald ...

To celebrate cars like the F1 and ... became the last person to set a land speed record without jet propulsion in 1964 when ...

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 ...

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 ...

The land-speed record for steam-powered locomotion has been holding steady for 88 years at 127mph, but a team of British engineers and stunt drivers will attempt to break it with the Steam Car.

Also in 1964 he set a new world land speed record of 403.10 mph at Lake Eyre in Australia. On 4 January 1967 Donald Campbell was on Coniston Water in Bluebird when the front of the boat flipped up ...

It’s been over 18 years since the supersonic Thrust SSC set the world land speed ... To whet speed freaks’ appetites, we’ve rounded up some of the most extreme car world records ...

The Lola-Drayson B12/69EV is a former Le Mans car turned land speed racer, which set the current 500 kg -1000 kg EV land speed record back in 2013. The Autolite Lead Wedge, recently for sale by ...

On a Mission: The vehicle cost less than £1,000 to build A host of unconventional vehicles - including the world's fastest shed - are preparing to break their own land-speed records. Drivers and ...