Determining which car is the fastest in the world can get complicated quickly. Here are why various cars claim they are the ...

It's estimated that the car hit 104 mph on this run, but the fatal incident caused the US to ban public record runs, hence why the Torpedo doesn't get credit for breaking 100 mph. Land speed ...

The banked corner before the main straightaway at Papenburg allowed Wallace to enter the 2.5-mile straight at roughly 300 kph (186 mph). With his foot hard down on the accelerator, the Mistral’s ...

So, while moonshine running might have given NASCAR its cars, it was the Daytona Beach land-speed records that soon brought it its organization.

In 1926, Babs became the world's fastest car by reaching a speed of 171.02 mph.In the 1920s Pendine Sands in Carmarthenshire became famous in the story of the World Land Speed Record. The long ...

Since the advent of the car, racers have pushed themselves and their machines to the limit to find out just how fast they can go. The first land speed record, comprising the average of the maximum ...

EXPRESS/STRINGER//Getty Images A side-mounted cockpit on the Green Monster land speed–record car placed Art inches from the jet turbine’s blades. With multiple times the power of Walt’s ...

A Maserati MC20 Coupe with no one in the driver’s seat set a new land speed record for ... the race car flew down the 2.8-mile runway at record-breaking speeds, surpassing the 192.2mph record ...

An empty Maserati MC20 driven by an AI system recently set a new autonomous-vehicle speed record when it reached a blistering ...

In the 1920s and 1930s national heroes were the breed who sought glory by pushing the boundaries on land, water, and in the ...