Speed Records

Almost a year and a half ago I first reported about this record-breaking attempt effort forged between Venturi’s…

If you haven’t been following the SSC Tuatara record controversy, you’ve been missing out. In a nutshell: the SSC…

Remember yesterday when we were talking about all of the confusion and scrutiny that the video purporting to show…

The internet has pretty much turned the entire world into cranky roommates, with everyone knowing everyone’s…

Despite our hard rule on avoiding listening to Bugatti talk about Bugatti, the company recently gave great insight…

Lots of cars these days can hit 200 miles-per-hour. It’s not nothing, but it’s not anything either. But back in…

Bloodhound LSR—the revival of the defunct Bloodhound SSC project—is currently working its way up to its ultimate…

The desire to go fast is universal. The desire to go faster than anyone else has gone before, to buy your own jet…

Just recently, Bugatti took a pre-production, monstrously powerful Chiron out to break the 300-mph barrier that,…

The whole reason Volkswagen flew me out to the Bonneville Salt Flats was so I could, ideally, witness their…

I was out at the Bonneville Salt Flats this past week to drive some old and slow cars fast-ish on the salt, but…

One of the fastest and most remarkable watercraft ever built, the Bluebird K7, returned to the water for the first…

A few weeks back, we wrote about how John Hennessey said he’ll be able to break the 300 mph with his planned Venom…

For a while now, the next big goal in the never-ending quest for speed has been to hit 300 mph in a road car. The…

Johnny Bohmer has been breaking records in his 2,700 horsepower BADD GT for a while now, first taking it to 250 mph…

Just last month, a Bugatti Chiron went from zero to 249 mph and back to zero in an incredible 41.96 seconds. On…

Just a couple of days ago, Alfa Romeo released a video showing their new Stelvio Quadrifoglio breaking the…

Right in the middle of all the GT-Rs, Porsches and Lamborghinis that showed up to the Heuberger Subaru Pikes Peak…

Last year Toyota started making noise about setting a land speed record for SUVs in a Land Cruiser... a solid-axle…

This weekend’s Texas Mile event saw a heavily modified Ford GT from M2K Motorsports hit 293.6 mph, the latest in a…