land speed record

In and effort to promote the high-speed grip of its new Hakkapeliitta 8 winter tire, Nokian threw a set of its new rubber on a race-prepped Audi RS6 and got moving – very, very quickly. In fact, on March 9 on top of the very frozen Gulf of Bothinia near Oulu, Finland, Nokian's test driver ...

There are an infinite number of impressive aspects to getting a 1992 Audi to clip past the 400 km/h barrier. For starters, there's the fact that Jeff Gerner managed to milk a full 1,100 horsepower from the five-cylinder S4 before shuttling the power to the ground via an all-wheel drive system ...

Behold the fastest production hybrid in the world! For the second time this year, the Volkswagen Jetta Hybrid LSR has moved the terminal-veolcity bar higher by averaging 186.313 mph (that's 299.841 km/h) at Bonneville. That breaks the SCTA's land speed record for production cars with forced ...

James Hoegh's mission to go faster than 168.912 mph (271.837 km/h) on a naked bike on the Bonneville Salt Flats has met success. Hoegh traversed the salt during the BUB Motorcycle Speed Trials at 172.211 mph (277.146 km/h), entering the books in the APF3000 class as the rider on the world's ...

After blasting down the Bonneville Salt Flats at 298 km/h (185 mph), the 2013 Volkswagen Jetta Hybrid is now the "world's fastest hybrid," according to VW. The modified Jetta Hybrid was driven by Motor Trend Associate Road Test Editor Carlos Lago, and the official speed was 298.363 km/h (185.394 ...

When Nissan wants to set a speed record, you'd expect it to use the mighty GT-R to get there. Or maybe one of its myriad racing cars – it does, after all, power the bulk of the LMP2 racers on the grid at Le Mans, not to mention the experimental DeltaWing. But the Leaf? Sure, maybe for ...

Richard Brown is our kind of guy. Back in 1999, he set the one-way record for the top speed on a motorcycle at 582 kilometres per hour, and he's spent the years since working on a sub-orbital rocket and a gas turbine jet pack. Surprisingly enough, those two projects haven't been enough to occupy ...

We've been told there was a time when critics of the automobile warned against the dangers of high-speed driving. At the lofty speed of 56 kilometres per hour, they said, the air could very well be sucked right out of your lungs, leaving you to die of asphyxiation as you careened along at the ...

Hemmings reports that Craig Breedlove is preparing to jump back into the land speed record game in an attempt to break through the 800 mph (1,287 km/h) barrier. Breedlove made a name for himself while vying with Art Arfons for the world land speed record back in the '60s. His efforts eventually ...

At the Loring Timing Association in Maine, John Petsche drove a highly modified motorcycle into the record books. Powered by a six-horsepower industrial diesel engine and fueled by store-bought vegetable oil, Petsche's two-wheeler hit a top speed of 56.535 miles (91 kilometres) per hour, ...