The SSC Tuatara and its variants were once shrouded in a remarkable layer of controversy, originally claiming a top speed of 331 mph. Sadly, this turned out to be a hoax, and SSC recommitted to ...

That title currently belongs to the Thrust SSC, which in 1997 became the first ... Every type of car is good at something -- hypercars excel at top speed, dragsters at acceleration, race cars ...

Ayers and Green are no strangers to land-speed records. They were part of the team that worked on the Thrust SSC (supersonic car), which blazed across Nevada’s Black Rock Desert in 1997 ...