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In C/D's exclusive first instrumented test, the new ZR1 hit 60 mph in 2.2 seconds. It also blasted through the quarter-mile ...
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 ...
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 ...
Before his first visit to Bonneville and his final run on the Black Rock Desert, Breedlove’s legend began when he purchased his first car at the ... commissioned the Thrust SSC endeavor to ...
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.
Jessi Combs was a gifted car fabricator with a ... shorn of its wings and fitted with wheels—to try to take the 763-mph land speed record from the British Thrust SSC team. Created in 1998 ...
This car is called the Thrust SSC or Thrust SuperSonic Car ... with Green behind the wheel once more. Unfortunately, it does not seem like that happened. Perhaps in the future?
But Concorde passengers sipping Moët at 60,000 feet could smash the sound barrier while flying a touch slower than Andy’s Thrust SSC. Confused ... low-slung sports car with a dirty great ...
inline-three-cylinder engine spins the heck out of the front wheels, augmented by ... lots outside of the U.S. BONUS: Thrust SSC Jet-Powered Land Speed Record Car (763 mph) We couldn't finish ...
The Aussie Invader 5R rocket-car will attempt to break the land speed ... broke the sound barrier – driving Richard Noble’s Thrust SSC on a Nevada salt flat in 1997.