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most of the vehicles that broke land speed records stopped looking like cars, and more like grounded airplanes without wings, so we decided to skip ahead to the fastest one. The Thrust SSC ...

Andy Green, who was driving the Thrust SSC the set the World Land Speed Record in 1997, will be behind the wheel of the Bloodhound. For Autoblog I'm Eddie Sabatini. Autoblog Minute is a short-form ...

with the current land speed record of 1227.98km/h set 28 years ago by British driver Andy Green in the jet-powered Thrust SSC. It was the first time the record exceeded the speed of sound (1235km/h).

In October 1997 Thrust SSC, a twin turbofan jet-powered car and the current holder of the Outright World Land Speed Record, clocked more than 763 mph over one mile. Just before it crossed the line ...