Jessi Combs was a gifted car fabricator with a powerful affinity ... intermediate goal as taking the unofficial 512-mph women's land speed record set in 1976 (the women's record is unofficial ...

Her jet-powered car clocked a record speed of 522.783 ... Ms Combs already held a women's land-speed record in a four-wheeled vehicle. In 2013, she set a new race record of 398 mph, earning ...

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

Jessi Combs became the fastest woman on Earth at 522 mph in a North American Eagle Supersonic Speed Challenger, a 52,000-hp ...

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 ...

That breaks the SCTA's land ... car was supported by the engineers from the Volkswagen Test Center California in Oxnard, CA. "We are really proud that our new Jetta Hybrid has taken the land speed ...

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.

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 ...

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 car has been built by students at Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG) at The University of Warwick, UK. The hydrogen the car will run off is a byproduct of Wastewater Fuels treatment technology. The ...