Bloodhound SSC

The Bloodhound land-speed record car is up for sale and will need to find a new owner to achieve its goal of setting a new record.

There's a lot involved controlling a car at speeds that passenger aircraft travel at—even when driving in a straight line.

The Bloodhound LSR has been designed to break the land speed record and during testing managed to accelerate to 628 mph in 50.1 seconds.

Bloodhound LSR reached 628 mph during testing but now needs cash to fund a rocket booster to ultimately hit a goal of 1,000 mph.

Bloodhound LSR will need to raise $10.5 million by the end of March in order to complete its quest to hit a top speed of 1,000 mph.

Bloodhound LSR driver Andy Green walks through the cockpit of his land-speed-record jet car.

Testing of the Bloodhound land speed record car, which looks like a space shuttle on wheels, has exceeded 500 mph.

Bloodhound LSR is gathering data ahead of its first attempt on the record in the next 12 to 18 months.

The Bloodhound land speed record project is alive and kicking, with the company behind it, Grafton LSR, on Thursday revealing a new livery for the supersonic car as well as a new base of operations. Grafton LSR took over the project last December after the previous company overseeing it, Bloodhound...

A savior for Bloodhound Programme Ltd, the company working on an attempt to smash the land speed record for a steerable car, has been found. The savior is Ian Warhurst, who it was announced on Monday is the new owner of Bloodhound Programme. It isn't clear how much Warhurst paid for Bloodhound...

Originally scheduled for October 2017, the Bloodhound SSC’s attempt on setting a new land speed record has been pushed back until the fourth quarter of 2019, the team confirmed Wednesday. The cause of the delay, the second for the British effort, is primarily due to longer than expected time...

It was in 2008 that the team behind the Bloodhound Supersonic Car (SSC) announced the goal to not only tackle the current land speed record of 763.035 mph but to reach the staggeringly high mark of 1,000 mph. On Thursday, team Bloodhound took a major step toward reaching the goal. Bloodhound's...

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 steering wheel straight and mashing the throttle. No, there's finesse and precision involved to...

Name your car Bloodhound and it needs to be something special. In this case, the Bloodhound SSC—those last three letters are for "supersonic car"—is capable of traveling at speeds faster than commercial jets. The Bloodhound SSC project is a group effort to bring about a new land speed...

Hakskeenpan, or Hakseen Pan as we'd say in English, is a desolate stretch of mud and salt that sits in the Kalahari Desert. This South African site is going to play host to the Bloodhound SSC next year as it seeks to break the current land speed record. To prep the desert surface for this run, the...

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 outlandish Bloodhound SSC vehicle will be the world's fastest man, Andy Green, who has held the 763 mph...

It’s been close to a decade since news of the Bloodhound SSC first emerged. This week, though, the people behind the supersonic car have finally revealed the completed version. Measuring 44 feet in length, the Bloodhound draws its power from a V-8, a jet engine and a cluster of rockets, and...

If all goes as planned, sometime next year, British air force pilot Andy Green will take the Bloodhound SSC to an unbelievable 1,000 mph, simultaneously breaking the sound barrier and shattering the world land speed record. But obviously, there's plenty of work to be done before then, as there's...

Calling the Bloodhound SSC ambitious is the height of understatement. Its mission is to be the first car to break the sound barrier. On the way there? It'll smash the current world land speed record—a record driver Andy Green currently holds. And as you'd imagine, the specs are insane. The...

Late last year, Jaguar announced a partnership with current land speed record holder Andy Green and his team at Bloodhound, which is working on a jet and rocket-powered supersonic car (SSC) that will be used in a new land speed record attempt in the next six to 12 months. Green’s previous...