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

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...