Tag: 1000MPH

11 DEC

Bad news for the 1,000mph car as Bloodhound SSC is shut down

Artist’s rendering of a rocket car screaming across the desert. (credit: Bloodhound SSC) Sad news, everyone. Bloodhound SSC, the British project to shatter the land speed record, is dead. Breaking the 1,000mph barrier with a ground vehicle is neither an easy feat nor a cheap one, and it was the funding side of things that […]

25 NOV

Bloodhound SSC: How do you build a car capable of 1,000mph?

(credit: Bloodhound SSC) Update: It’s Thanksgiving weekend in the US, so many Ars staffers are working through leftovers instead of to-do lists. And with the recent news that one of the most interesting land-speed engineering projects around is experiencing funding issues (just a year after it finally ran a test and hit 210mph), we’re resurfacing […]

07 NOV

Bloodhound Sings! Brits Still Pursuing 1000-MPH Record Attempt

– The history of British motorsport is well stocked with underdog stories, most famously those of the “garagista” upstarts who conquered Formula 1 in the 1960s and ’70s before remaking the sport in their own image. But the attempt of a small group of engineers based in Bristol to break the world land speed record—and take […]