Inside the Bloodhound SSC, the Supersonic Car That Could Hit 1,000 MPH Eric Markowitz - Vocativ
go to original January 8, 2014

The Bloodhound SSC - supersonic car - built in the UK by a team of Formula 1 and aerospace experts, aims to inspire kids about Science, Technology, Engineering and Math by reaching over 1,000 mph. It is a battle with Physics, a journey into the unknown. (BLOODHOUND SSC)

Why? For science, of course.

Right now, the fastest street-legal car in the world is the Bugatti Veyron, a $1.3 million, 4,000-pound steel machine that can reach speeds of more than 267 miles per hour.

The Bloodhound SSC - a British concept car (sponsored, in part, by Rolls Royce) that’s planning trial runs in the next few weeks - can travel nearly four times as fast. According to its creators, the car will be capable of speeds up to 1,050 miles per hour - but there are certainly no plans to let it hit the streets. Not yet, at least.

The Bloodhound’s origins date back to 2008, when Richard Noble, the famed British entrepreneur (who held the land speed record between 1983 and 1997) decided it was time to break the current land speed record, which right now stands at 763 miles per hour. Funded in part by the British government, a team of engineers - based out of the former Maritime Heritage Centre in Bristol, England - have been exploring new technologies that would propel the Bloodhound into supersonic speeds.

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