How fast does the Thrust SSC go 0 to 60?

Torque, goes from 0-60 in 2.78 seconds, and has an estimated top speed of 270+ mph, although only about 257.41 mph was achieved on the 2½-mile-long road.
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How fast does the Thrust SSC go mph?

ThrustSSC is a British-designed and built World Land Speed Record car. ThrustSSC holds the current World Land Speed Record which was set on October 15, 1997, by accomplishing a speed of 763 mph. By doing so, the supersonic car became the first land vehicle to officially break the sound barrier.
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Is Thrust SSC faster than Bloodhound SSC?

The result is that Bloodhound has been designed from scratch to travel faster than sound, and even to reach a top speed of Mach 1.3 — 1,000 mph (1609 km/h), about 237 mph (381 km/h) faster than Thrust SSC's record.
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Is there a vehicle faster than Thrust SSC?

At the moment, the Thrust SSC is the only supersonic car in the world. No other land car is faster than the Thrust.
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Is the Thrust SSC faster than a bullet?

Share: When supersonic car BLOODHOUND SSC hits its top speed of over 1,000mph in 2016 it will move faster than a speeding bullet. More importantly, it will be travelling faster than any jet fighter has ever been at ground level.
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Thrust SSC - still the only car to travel faster than the speed of sound



Did the Thrust SSC make a sonic boom?

On 15 October 1997, Thrust SSC became the first car to break the sound barrier when it reached 1,227.985 km/h (763.035 mph; Mach 1.020) over 1 mi (1.6 km) in the Black Rock Desert, Nevada, USA. The resultant sonic boom caused sprinkler covers to fall off in the town of Gerlach, around 10 mi (16 km) away.
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How much is a Thrust SSC cost?

To put that into comparison, the ThrustSSC from over two decades ago reportedly cost just $3.7 million, which is approximately $6.6 million today when inflation is factored in.
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How fast can the Peel P50 go?

Capable of a top speed of 38 mph, the P50 features a 49-cc 4.5-horsepower single-cylinder two-stroke Zweirad Union engine mated to a three-speed gearbox. The Peel P50 has no reverse gear, simply a handle on the rear to enable the driver to pick up the car and maneuver it as required!
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Is Thrust SSC faster than Bugatti?

SSC Ultimate Aero - 256.18mph

During its seven-year production run, it managed to steal the fastest car title from the Bugatti Veyron with a top speed run of 256.18mph.
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Has any car hit 1000 mph?

For sale: a rocket-powered car named Bloodhound built specifically to break the land speed record. Theoretical top speed of 1,000 miles per hour.
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Can a car go 400 mph?

A Belgian driver was shocked to learn recently that his compact economy car had a top speed of over 400 mph. That was according to a speed camera citation mailed to him that said his Opel Astra, (which is sold in the United States as the Chevy Cruze), was clocked doing 654 kilometers per hour in a 50 kph zone.
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What is the fastest car in car crushers 2?

The Exo Speeder is one of the fastest cars in the game, with an equally high acceleration. In Derby Mode, the Exo Speeder has the highest attack of all Tier 1 cars.
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How much horsepower does Thrust SSC have?

110,000 bhp – Thrust SSC's power output, measured in brake horsepower (82 MW – Megawatts). Did You Know? Thrust SSC broke the sound-barrier almost exactly 50 years (+ 1 day) after US pilot Chuck Yeager first broke the sound barrier in Earth's atmosphere, flying the Bell X-1 research rocket plane (October 14 1947).
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How fast is the Bloodhound SSC?

The arrow-shaped racer reached a top speed of 628mph (1,010km/h) on the lakebed of Hakskeen Pan, South Africa, in late 2019. Only seven cars had previously ever gone faster than 600mph.
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Is there a car that goes 500 mph?

The Bloodhound supersonic car has reached a speed of over 500 miles per hour (mph)! It's managed 501 mph to be precise in high-speed trials in South Africa.
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Which is the fastest street legal car?

Using a closed highway near Pahrump, Nevada, the SSC Tuatara managed a one-way run of 330 mph, despite tricky cross-winds. Combined with a previous run of 301 mph, the Tuatara's two-way average, as certified by Guinness, is 316 mph, making it the fastest street-legal production car in the world.
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What's the fastest land car?

The current holder of the Outright World Land Speed Record is ThrustSSC driven by Andy Green, a twin turbofan jet-powered car which achieved 763.035 mph - 1227.985 km/h - over one mile in October 1997.
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Has any propeller plane broke the sound barrier?

To date, the closest a prop-driven aircraft has come to breaking the sound barrier was in 1944, when a Spitfire in a dive reached Mach 0.92—much controversy surrounds this and other claims, so take it with a grain of salt.
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What is the slowest car in history?

It is called the Peel P50. Peel offers both a gas and electric version of the vehicle. Not only is it the world's slowest car, but it is also the smallest car in the world (smaller than a Smart Car or Fiat), according to Guinness World Records.
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What is the fastest non supercar?

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  • 8) Campbell-Railton Blue Bird - 301 MPH. ...
  • 7) Thunderbolt - 345 MPH. ...
  • 6) Wingfoot Express - 415 MPH. ...
  • 5) Green Monster - 572 MPH. ...
  • 4) Spirit of America - 600 MPH. ...
  • 3) The Blue Flame - 630 MPH. ...
  • 2) Thrust 2 - 633 MPH. ...
  • 1) Thrust SSC - 763 MPH.
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Can cars break the sound barrier?

He set the current world land speed record on October 15, 1997, in another British jet-propelled car called Thrust SSC. It was the first land vehicle to officially break the sound barrier.
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What is the fastest land vehicle in the world 2021?

  • 2021 Koenigsegg Gemera: 249 mph. Output: 1,700 hp. The wild Koenigsegg Gemera just might be the most over-engineered car on this list. ...
  • 2021 Hennessey Venom F5: 311 mph. Output: 1,817 hp. Another theoretical speedking, the Texas-based speedhouse claims its newest homegrown hypercar is good for a whopping 311 mph.
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