Bowsher designed the car with rear-wheel steering instead, proving the concept with a specially modified Mini. Thrust SSC was difficult to control, something Ayers attributes both to the rear ...

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 Spirit of America's design was significantly different from the Thrust SSC, with traditional front-wheel steering and a single jet engine rather than dual units like the British car.

But, taking a car like the Thrust SSC to speeds above 700 mph isn't a simple as holding the steering wheel straight and mashing the throttle. No, there's finesse and precision involved to break ...

Besides Andy Green, the driver, the Bloodhound SSC (supersonic car) also shares the same project director, Richard Noble, and chief aerodynamicist, Ron Ayers, as the Thrust SSC that holds the ...

Thrust SSC was a supersonic car in that it crossed the sound barrier ... The car will also sport solid titanium wheels with twin 'keels': "That was fundamentally an aerodynamic design decision ...

That title currently belongs to the Thrust SSC, which in 1997 became the first ... However, these are single-seater, open-wheel cars. What about closed-wheel racers, or production cars?

The current record holder Thrust SSC was piloted by RAF Wing Commander ... another parachute is deployed Below 250 mph: Wheel brakes are applied and the car comes to a standstill.

At its apex, driver Andy Green braced himself at the wheel of thrust SSC as the jet-powered car reached 804kph. Days earlier, after nearly a month in the high desert, Thrust-- SSC stands for ...

The needle-nose car made two runs Newquay Airport in Cornwall, U.K., on Thursday with land speed record holder Andy Green behind the wheel ... hit 763.035 in the Thrust SSC.

Sure, you have the Thrust SSC, as mentioned earlier ... acceleration in a street-legal platform. For closed-wheel, closed-cockpit cars, the fastest ever belongs to the Porsche 919 Hybrid Evo ...