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1000-mph Car Planned

Posted by kdawson on from the zum-zum dept.

Smivs notes a BBC report on a British team planning a 1000-mph record-breaking car. The previous land-speed record broke the sound barrier. The proposed vehicle will get from 0 to 1,050 mph in 40 seconds. "RAF pilot Andy Green made history in 1997 when he drove the Thrust SSC jet-powered vehicle at 763 mph (1,228 km/h). Now he intends to get behind the wheel of a car that is capable of reaching 1,000 mph (1,610 km/h). Known as Bloodhound, the new car will be powered by a rocket bolted to a Typhoon-Eurofighter jet engine. The team-members have been working on the concept for the past 18 months and expect to be ready to make their new record attempt in 2011."

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  1. Car? Or rocket on wheels? by Madball · · Score: 0, Troll
    While technically any wheeled vehicle is a car, this is not a car in any common sense meaning of the word.

    1. You can't (and won't ever be able to) buy one.

    2. You can only drive it at speed on salt flats.

    3. You can't drive it on public roads (driver and pedestrian safety, shooting flames of death, etc).

    4. Even if you could drive it on-road, its turning radius is probably a mile!

    A better title might be "British team seeks to break land speed record, again." or even better "Yaaaawn"

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  4. Dummies will stay dummies by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    >The UK has a shortage of home grown talent when it >comes to engineering and this is helping change >that for the future.

    I think you have bigger problems besides bad teeth.
    But hey, put some lipstick above those ugly chompers and you'll convince people that its solved.

    As for homegrown talent, your asian kids seem to be doing very well so maybe your country should look at how those kids are getting higher scores than the homegrown non-soccer hooligans types.

  5. Re:MPG is an obsolete measurement by Farmer+Pete · · Score: -1, Troll

    Strapping a jet fighter engine to a car isn't considered innovation in my book. If they came up with some new technology or developed something new, I might be impressed. Until then, this is just a bunch of rich people wasting good money that could be better spent else ware.