The Bugatti Mistral has finally dethroned the previous record speed for an open-top car set by Hennessey's Venom GT Spyder in ...

It should be no surprise, then, that the internal combustion engine and the land-speed record have evolved at roughly the same pace over the last century or so. In order to celebrate the ...

Inspired by the backyard engineering of land-speed ... Ford Zephyr 6 draft car (complete with column-mounted manual shifter), but he'll need a draft car with a higher top speed if he wants to ...

The Bloodhound supersonic car is back, under new management and preparing to renew its pursuit of the land speed record. The project went into administration last year, unable to secure the ...

Raw yet stunning, this work of custom car art managed to break land-speed records in its class multiple times and became a legend ...

It's estimated that the car hit 104 mph on this run, but the fatal incident caused the US to ban public record runs, hence ...

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 ...

the current world record of peak speed held by a "regular" car is held by the Koenigsegg Jesko Absolut, which only grazes slightly past the 310 miles per hour figure. "The outright world land ...

Land speed record cars are two to four times as fast as Indy, NASCAR, or Formula 1 cars. And the rules are wide open. So long as the car rolls on wheels, pretty much anything goes. Yet despite the ...

All images by Terry Shea/Hemmings The annual Hilton Head Island Concours d’Elegance & Motoring Festival has quite the long ...

Relatives of workers who helped build a car that broke the land speed record in 1927 are being sought for a museum initiative. The Wolverhampton-built Sunbeam 1000hp was the first vehicle to top ...