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Thrust SSC - Still The Fastest Land Vehicle

On the 15th October 1997 Thrust SSC became the first land vehicle to break the sound barrier. Piloted by Wing Commander Andy Green of the RAF, an average speed of 763.035mph over the flying mile wa...  
 
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machinery100 (2 hours ago) Show Hide
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to magnusalexa--screw you and your president. when the oil is gone, he won't be able to hop on af1 and run ro Hawaii while people are dying halfway around the world. this is research
theRCT3player (14 hours ago) Show Hide
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it can go up to 780 miles an hour
MasterThief1324 (14 hours ago) Show Hide
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Sexy beast of a car.
magnusalexa (17 hours ago) Show Hide
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the sooner oil runs out the better itll be for humanity, we cant even feed humanity and we burning money like its a never ending supply
mehdital (19 hours ago) Show Hide
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@jack390 but it still having wheels on which it runs at 1100 kmh!!! thats the difference
hayabusa47 (23 hours ago) Show Hide
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I put this in my Acura !
jimnumberuno (1 day ago) Show Hide
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i didnt see the word car being used to describe this vehicle. To my understanding it was, "land vehicle"
abioape (1 day ago) Show Hide
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Clearly some people have no idea what goes into building a car like this (and probably how anything is designed and made) It's not just about having lots of money (which this team didn't have).

The shape was uniquely designed to avoid it taking off, just chopping the wings off a jet would result in a fatal flip over.
jack390 (1 day ago) Show Hide
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lol thats a dick shaped plane and theyve replaced the wings with 2 rocket engines...none the less awsome vid and great respect for the (car?) vehicle.
chaclapa (1 day ago) Show Hide
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this is definetly like a jet with no wings

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