Glad to see this. It's an enormous engineering challenge and STEM outreach/education is a large part of the project. I went to see Thrust SSC, its predecessor, being built when I was a kid. Hugely ...

Are there some practical implications of developing this technology or is this just for bragging rights? I'm trying to decide how much I should care about this. I'm not knocking anyone who wants to ...

It looks like something NASA would aim at the sky and launch into orbit but no, it’s a car. And by the time its builders’ blast it across a desert in South Africa next year, they hope to set the land ...

Volvo’s parent company and China’s seventh largest carmaker, Geely, has been revealed as the new “prime sponsor and official automotive partner” of Britain’s Bloodhound SSC project. The project aims ...

THE team behind a car designed to travel at more than 1,000mph will be in Oxford with their supersonic creation. The Bloodhound car and its crew will be in the city as part of an Oxford University ...

World-class UK research is helping to build the fastest car in the world thanks to the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council World class ...

A look at the car that wants to beat the 763MPH (1228KMH) land speed record set by the Thrust SSC in October 1997. The Morning After - A twice-weekly dose of the news you need ...

It's Australia versus Britain as two teams battle it out to build a car that can hit 1,000mph, reports the BBC's Duncan Kennedy. Twenty seconds. That is how long an Australian-built supersonic ...