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 ...

Thrust SSC's groundbreaking design was not the product of a maverick automotive industry engineer, but rather a missile designer. After several years of searching, Richard Noble ran into Ron Ayers ...

A car built to go 1000 mph has completed its first public tests. The Bloodhound SSC is a jet and rocket-powered streamliner that uses a Formula 1 engine as a fuel pump. The needle-nose car made ...

On October 15, 1997, the Thrust SSC set a World Land Speed Record of 760.035 mph, and becoming the first and only car to break the sound barrier. That record may not stand for much longer, though.

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 ...

Even though they still own the land speed record, which the Thrust SSC set on October 15, 1997 at 763 mph, Richard Noble, and Andy Green have returned to the quest for the world's fastest land ...

That title currently belongs to the Thrust SSC, which in 1997 became the first (and so far only) car to break the sound barrier, achieving a 763.04 mile-per-hour land speed record.

In 1997, the Thrust SSC team landed a world record when its car set the world land-speed record of 763 mph. But, taking a car like the Thrust SSC to speeds above 700 mph isn't a simple as holding ...

The Bloodhound supersonic car (SSC), which made its public debut in September 2015, was an ambitious project to design, build, and run a vehicle capable of achieving land speeds in excess of 1,000 ...

It’s the 20th anniversary of the Thrust SSC’s run. Up next, the Bloodhound. By Sven Gustafson. Oct 19, 2017 1:00 PM EDT Start the Conversation .