A follow-up to the Thrust 2, the jet-power car that broke the land speed record in 1983, the SSC looked more like a wingless jet fighter than a car. Yes, it had four wheels, but they were hidden ...

The top speed achieved by the SSC Thrust, as recorded by the Guinness Book of World Records and the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile, was 763.035 miles per hour, or 1,227.985 kilometers ...

The Thrust SSC project would simply never have even existed were it not for the dogged perseverance of Richard Noble and his team. Noble already held the previous land speed record behind the ...

Thrust SSC Land Speed Record: Time For Tea? Six decades of Guinness World Records marked with new vids. And where better to start? By Matt Bird / . Thursday, 11 December 2014 / Loading comments ...

Way back in 1997 the first supersonic car ever built smashed the world land speed record. The Thrust SSC was silent in its menacing and deliberate approach, until it finally passed you with a ...

Unlike previous record-breaking vehicles, the Thrust SSC was powered by two jet engines. Both gargantuan units were Rolls-Royce Spey turbofans, which originally powered the British version of the ...

The event comes on the heels of the 20th anniversary of the team's previous and still-standing world land speed record of 763.035 mph, set in the Nevada desert on Oct. 15, 1997, with the Thrust ...

3 Oct 1997: Thrust SSC Car pilot Andy Green looks on during the Supersonic World Land Speed Record Challenge at Black Rock Desert in Gerlach, Nevada. Harry How /Allsport via Getty Images Green was ...

Finally in 1983 everything went according to plan, and on October 4, Thrust 2 reached a peak speed of 650mph, setting a new world land speed record of 633.5mph.

The British team Bloodhound Supersonic Car (SSC) is comprised of some legendary land speed experience. Richard Noble was the man behind the Thrust SSC—the car that set the current land speed record.

A rocket-powered car is on track to set a land speed record of 1000 mph, the Wall Street Journal reports. The Bloodhound SSC is the brainchild of Richard Noble, the British creator of Thrust SSC ...