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Posts tagged car
New Trans-Am, ‘hmm if Only..’
Nov 27th
Entry-level Porsche, Mid-engine Corvette, or the mythical phoenix that is the Pontiac Trans Am, is there a car out there that, if they’d just build the damn thing, you’d be camped in front of the dealer to buy one? What Car Do you Wish Was Made, But Isn’t?
New Land SPEED World Record!! ‘Coming Soon’
Nov 24th
Bloodhound is a car being designed to run at a swooshing one thousand miles-per-hour. That’s 1,609 km/h, which is way faster than the speed of sound. As the video shows, it’ll have more thrust than the Eurofighter combat jet:
Of course, the car has yet to be built, let alone break that record. But the effort is quite serious, these people are not amateur, and they have serious sponsors. It will use one EJ200 jet like the one used by the Eurofighter.alonside a one 18″ hybrid rocket, and a V12 piston engines. The 6500-kilogram Bloodhound—which is being built in Bristol—will have a 47,000lbs trust, with a top speed of 1050mph.
The driver will be former RAF Wing Comander Andy Green, who broke the landspeed record in 1997.
