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 ...

The current land speed record for a drivable object on four wheels is 763 mph, as set by fighter pilot Andy Green back in 1997 behind the wheel of the Thrust SSC (supersonic car). Green and British ...

Sometime in 2017, the Bloodhound SSC could become the fastest car in the world. The previous record was set in 1997 by the Thrust SSC, driven by Wing Commander Andy Green, after the car achieved a ...