is a warp speed mountain of metal that Boije Overbrink used to break the semi-truck land speed record, doing so at all of 155 mph. The Bugatti Veyron, a passenger car, will exceed 250 miles-per ...

Land speed records generally conjure ... part funny car, and part rocket. The most famous and frequently-used venue for such records is the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. The most common vessel ...

Inspired by the backyard engineering of land-speed racers who built 600+miles-per-hour rockets on wheels, bicycle frame builder Tom Donhou built a bike intended to exceed 100 mph under pedal power ...

For the land speed record, we could have another five, six tonnes on top of that from the rocket," explained chief engineer Mark Chapman. Bloodhound car arrives in South Africa Bloodhound takes ...

It will still be powered by a Rolls-Royce EJ200 jet engine and a Nammo rocket, and RAF man Andy Green (the current land speed record holder - 763mph/1,228km/h) will do the driving. Mark Chapman ...

That was enough rush for the day. This month, on October 15, is the 60th anniversary of the land-speed record broken by Craig Breedlove in his rocket-engine-powered Spirit of America car, when his ...