Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We live in the long tail of land-speed records. For most of the past century, the title of fastest human on wheels traded hands ...

There is only one car in history that has ever broken the sound barrier, and it's called "Thrust SuperSonic Car," which achieved this feat back in October 1997 after reaching speeds of 763 miles per ...

It's been 20 years since the Thrust SSC made its record-breaking speed run, becoming the only car to ever travel faster than the speed of sound. Yet as its driver explains, it wasn't as simple as ...

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 vehicle ...

Way back in 1997 the first supersonic car ever built smashed the world land speed record. The Thrust SSC was silent in its menacing and deliberate approach, until it finally passed you with a wallop ...

On October 15, 1997, Wing Commander Andy Green and the Thrust SSC set the land speed record in the semi-arid region of Black Rock Desert. 20 years after that seminal moment, the record is slated to be ...

It’s the 20th anniversary of the Thrust SSC’s run. Up next, the Bloodhound. Next week, the Bloodhound Project folks will stage an event on a 1.7-mile runway at Cornwall Airport Newquay in southwestern ...