On October 15, 1997, Wing Commander Andy Green and the Thrust SSC set the land speed record in the semi-arid region of Black Rock Desert. 20 years after that seminal moment, the record is slated to be ...

His automotive adventure started reporting on various motorsport events as a sports writer before moving onto a full-time auto career with various sites, including This Week In Motors and ...

Sometime in 2017, the Bloodhound SSC could become the fastest car in the world. The previous record was set in 1997 by the Thrust SSC, driven by Wing Commander Andy Green, after the car achieved a ...

The Bloodhound SSC, a marvel of modern engineering, will make its first public run this October at Cornwall Airport in Newquay. This highly anticipated event will see the car driven by Wing Commander ...

The current land speed record for a drivable object on four wheels is 763 mph, as set by fighter pilot Andy Green back in 1997 behind the wheel of the Thrust SSC (supersonic car). Green and British ...

The design has been finalised for the world’s fastest car, set to be the first to top 1,000mph (1,610km/h). The Bloodhound SSC team are undergoing ‘parametric optimisation’, tweaking the blueprint ...

Bloodhound SSC, the British-built vehicle that is eventually set to become the first car to break 1,000mph (1,600km/h), has again delayed its record-breaking attempt, this time until at least summer ...

Supercars are fast. Hypercars are faster. Land speed record cars, however, are on another level of speed and the Bloodhound SSC is the craziest of them all. Andy Green, a former RAF fighter pilot, set ...

The dream of driving 1,000 miles per hour is stuck in neutral. Bloodhound SSC, a British project to build a land-speed-record car, found itself in a position familiar to many big-dream engineering ...

The quest to drive the fastest car in the world has hit yet another slowdown: The Bloodhound SSC team has announced that its attempt to break the 1000-mph barrier will be delayed until 2018. In a ...

In between sipping cups of Earl Grey tea and producing oddly prescient dystopian satires, the British like to set land speed records. Back in 1997, a group of enterprising British engineers ...

A British team composed of top Formula One and aerospace industry engineers has announced it has secured funding for its attempt to break the existing world land speed record. At the wheel of the ...