Wingfoot Express cockpit was located centrally, just behind the front axle, covered with a plexiglass canopy from in front of the driver’s feet to behind his head. The front wheels were mounted within the bodywork barely further apart than the width of the engine, while the rear wheels were on outriggers and exposed to the air.

Green Monster was powered by an F-104 Starfighter General Electric J79 17,500 lbf static thrust jet engine with four-stage afterburner , which Art Arfons purchased from a scrap dealer for $600 and rebuilt himself, over the objections of General Electric and the government, and despite all manuals for the engine being classified top secret .

The Spirit of America is officially the World’s fastest 3-wheeler. Although Craig Breadlove went on to 675mph in a 4-wheeled Spirit of America it was on October 15th 1964 that the jet powered 3-wheeled Sprit of America

Thrust2 is a British designed and built jet propelled car , which held the world land speed record between 1983 and 1997 . In 1997 Thrust2’s record was broken by Richard Noble’s follow up car, ThrustSSC .

On October 4th 1983 the car reached a top speed of 633 mph (1018 km/h) in the Black [...]

Thrust SSC is a British designed and built jet propelled car developed by Richard Noble and Ron Ayers, which holds the world land speed record. It is powered by two afterburning Rolls-Royce Spey engines, as used in British variants of the F-4 Phantom II

Auto racing began almost immediately after the construction of the first successful petrol -fuelled autos . In 1894 , the first contest was organized by Paris magazine Le Petit Journal , a reliability test to determine best performance.

It is not every day that a brand new supercar company comes along out of nowhere with a brand new completed product. The blogosphere is full of half-baked info on startup car companies with outlandish spec sheets and sloppy computer renderings, but new Spanish marque GTA is for real. Their first model, the 2010 GTA [...]

The Hyundai Genesis sedan, out now, and the Hyundai Genesis Coupe that will drop in the spring of 2009, is proof in pudding of Korean automaker Hyundai’s rise to creating real, serious performance machines. The Genesis sedan and coupe are the culmination of a trend at Hyundai toward quality and driver engagement, without giving up the high value that has catapulted the brand from bottom-of-the-barrel economy to high on many prospective car buyers’ lists.

Is it possible to make a Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren Roadster even more exclusive and individual? Brabus proves that the topless Mercedes supercar can be made even sportier and more exciting with its sophisticated customization program.

Porsche has developed a special Aerokit for the 911 Turbo Coupe. It includes a front spoiler lip and an entirely new engine cover design with fixed aerofoil.