Bloodhound SSC's cluster of rockets will use a liquid oxidizer—in this case, highly concentrated hydrogen peroxide (also known as high test peroxide or HTP)—and keep the ability to be throttled.

But even by the standards of such eccentric endeavor, the Bloodhound SSC project stands out as something special, a car that’s being built to push the land-speed record over 1000 mph.

The Bloodhound SSC is making its grand debut in London today, and I was given a guided tour of this vast and extraordinarily powerful car by a member of the team making it.

The Bloodhound SSC is the car that in 2018 will hit speeds of over 1,000 mph, breaking the land-speed record. At least, that's what its designers hope.

Bloodhound SSC, the British-built vehicle that is eventually set to become the first car to break 1,000mph (1,600km/h), has again delayed its record-breaking attempt, this time until at least ...

World land speed record holder Andy Green tested Bloodhound SSC's parachute system on a Jaguar F-TYPE R Coupé driven on a track at a former RAF base in Bentwaters, Suffolk.

The Bloodhound SSC sports a 400kg hybrid rocket beneath the 1,000kg Rolls Royce EJ200 Eurofighter engine in a jet-over-rocket configuration, freeing up space for extra parachutes, ...

Bloodhound SSC will use a combination of engines and rockets to take it up to 1,000mph, including a Eurofighter Typhoon jet engine, a hybrid rocket, and a Jaguar F-Type V8 engine to pump fuel into ...

“Bloodhound SSC will travel under its own power for the first time at Newquay in June 2017, in a slow speed (c.220 mph / 354 km/h) shakedown test,” reads a release from the project's team.

For about a decade now, the British Bloodhound Supersonic Car (SSC) effort has been working on a rocket-powered car it hopes to use to smash the vehicular land speed record, currently held by the ...

The Bloodhound SSC begins initial low-speed testing in the near future, with a full-speed run happening later this year. Jaguar will debut the new F-Type R AWD Bloodhound SSC RRV at the Coventry ...

On Thursday lunchtime on an airport runway in Newquay, Cornwall, England, the Bloodhound SSC will get its first-ever public test. It's the latest stage of a project whose eventual aim is to break ...