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

Interestingly, Greenbird was sponsored by Ecotricity, the company currently working to build an electric Lotus ... broken the world land speed record for a wind-powered vehicle.

Ohio State University currently holds the unlimited land speed record for an electric vehicle when the school team managed to go 315 mph in the first Buckeye Bullet, the BB1. OSU will head out to ...

Most cars typically run on huge ... who spawn a new build and push the record ever higher. Electric land speed records are no different, often standing for long periods of time before tumbling ...

Sadly, the 19th century electric motors weren't able ... most of the vehicles that broke land speed records stopped looking ...

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 ...

In the spirit of speed, [James Whomsley] strapped a jet turbine engine to an RC car, and learned some hard lessons along the way. The car started as a four-wheel drive electric race car ...

The stated goal for its existence is to set the land speed record for electric motorcycles ... Built with lessons learned ...

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 new 1,888bhp Rimac Nevera has claimed the world land speed record for a production electric car. The pure-electric hypercar reached a top speed of 258mph with the firm’s Chief Test and ...

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 ...

Dylan Phillips has a sense of humor, a need for speed, and now, officially, the fastest wheelbarrow in the world. As he’s quoted in a BBC article: “Everyone loves it—it’s so stupid.