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Watch how the Bloodhound LSR stacks up against a Formula 1 car and a Bugatti Chiron… The Bloodhound Land Speed Record team has released a video which imagines how the jet-powered challenger compares with other fast cars. Covid-19 has inevitably had an impact on discussions with potential sponsors, so the …

World land speed record holder Andy Green has driven a Jaguar F-TYPE R Coupe at its top speed of 186mph to test Bloodhound SSC’s parachute deployment system. The test continues Jaguar’s technical partnership in the world land speed record project, following a high-speed communications test run in South Africa in …

Jaguar has unveiled the F-TYPE response vehicle which will support the British world land speed record attempt later this year. The Jaguar F-TYPE R AWD Bloodhound SSC Rapid Response Vehicle (RRV) will make its world debut at Coventry MotoFest (May 31-31). It’s the latest project of Jaguar Land Rover’s Special …

Actor Idris Elba follows in the famous footsteps of Sir Malcolm Campbell, breaking the 88-year-old ‘Flying Mile’ UK land speed record in a Bentley Continental GT Speed. The star of Luther, The Wire and Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom achieved 180.361mph on Pendine Sands, Wales. He broke the existing record …