The Bloodhound SSC project, whose hopes of achieving 1,000mph on the ground appeared to be at an end after its assets were put up for sale last week, has been given a new lease of life after the assets were purchased by British entrepreneur Ian Warhurst.The price paid for the...

Project Bloodhound’s mostly finished supersonic vehicle -- built with a jet engine bolted to a rocket in an attempt to break the world land speed record -- is up for sale after attempts to find financing for the project failed. And the car itself is available for the cost of...

On Sunday morning, eight years of work culminated in a 450.909mph return run to secure a new piston-driven world land speed record. Combined with the Speed Week opening day 446.605mph pass, the new official record, which is an average of the two runs, is 448.757mph."[The pass] got a little squirrelly,"...

On the 50th anniversary of his father Mickey's original 406mph run with the car, Danny Thompson took the Challenger 2 from storage and began the extensive process of restoring, retrofitting, and updating the vehicle to complete the goal the car was unable to achieve back in 1968 – setting a...