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The Incredible Boat That Shattered Sailing Speed Records Is Back on Water After Ten Years
The Incredible Boat That Shattered Sailing Speed Records Is Back on Water After Ten Years

11 Oct 2022, 01:25 UTC · By: Otilia Drăgan / No watercraft has been able to surpass this beast for the past decade, after it set an incredible world speed record, now back on water

 
Watch This Land Yacht Hit a Salt Lake for the First Time, Ready to Smash Speed Records
Watch This Land Yacht Hit a Salt Lake for the First Time, Ready to Smash Speed Records

6 Oct 2022, 03:56 UTC · By: Otilia Drăgan / This unusual-looking craft doesn't hit the waves, but races on salt lakes, with the goal of becoming the world's fastest land yacht

 
Sailing Champion to Break the Wind-Powered Land Speed Record of 126 MPH With a New Craft
Sailing Champion to Break the Wind-Powered Land Speed Record of 126 MPH With a New Craft

22 Feb 2022, 04:35 UTC · By: Otilia Drăgan / Emirates Team New Zeeland is building the world's fastest land yacht ever made, gearing up to break the wind-powered land speed record this year

 
World’s Fastest BMW Motorcycle Is the S1000RR
World’s Fastest BMW Motorcycle Is the S1000RR

30 Jul 2018, 06:59 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Private team sets a new speed record for the 1000cc naturally aspirated 4-cylinder partially streamlined motorcycle class

 
Matt LeBlanc’s Top Gear Track-tor Breaks World Speed Record
Matt LeBlanc’s Top Gear Track-tor Breaks World Speed Record

27 Mar 2018, 11:49 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Matt LeBlanc and Top Gear design tractor that speeds its way to a new world record for fastest tractors running on tarmac

 
Speed Record Breaking Corvette EV to Make It into Production, Cost $750,000
Speed Record Breaking Corvette EV to Make It into Production, Cost $750,000

14 Oct 2016, 11:05 UTC · By: Vlad Mitrache / Genovation, the company that modified a Chevrolet Corvette Z06 to break the speed record for street-legal electric cars, will start selling a similar vehicle

 
Volvo Sets World Speed Record With "Iron Knight" Truck, It Topped Out At 171 MPH
Volvo Sets World Speed Record With "Iron Knight" Truck, It Topped Out At 171 MPH

24 Aug 2016, 13:48 UTC · By: Sebastian Toma / Volvo Trucks managed to break two speed records set its models a few years ago. Both were set by a 2,400 custom Volvo truck

 
Volvo Guns For World Speed Record In 2,400 HP Truck Because It Can
Volvo Guns For World Speed Record In 2,400 HP Truck Because It Can

17 Aug 2016, 17:52 UTC · By: Sebastian Toma / Volvo likes to do exciting things with its trucks, and their latest plan is to set a new world speed record. Two records are targeted by Volvo

 
Nobody Will Be Doubting the Sharpness of the Tools in the World's Fastest Shed
Nobody Will Be Doubting the Sharpness of the Tools in the World's Fastest Shed

8 Mar 2016, 12:30 UTC · By: Vlad Mitrache / When you have an old car that needs to be scrapped, but you hate doing that to the poor thing, why not try to turn it into a shed and break a record as well?

 
Next Winter, Jaguar and Olympic Skier Want to Break World Speed Record on Skis
Next Winter, Jaguar and Olympic Skier Want to Break World Speed Record on Skis

4 Mar 2016, 16:44 UTC · By: Vlad Mitrache / A world speed record that involves a jet pack and a man on skis has definitely got the prerequisites of being tremendous fun, but it could also turn dangerous

 
Jaguar F-Type Gets Stopped from 186 MPH by Bloodhound SSC's Parachute
Jaguar F-Type Gets Stopped from 186 MPH by Bloodhound SSC's Parachute

15 Jun 2015, 09:19 UTC · By: Tudor Rus / Interested in seeing how a car can be stopped by a parachute while travelling at 186 mph? Well, you came to the right place

 
Custom Jaguar F-Type Will Make Sure Bloodhound SSC Shatters the World Land Speed Record
Custom Jaguar F-Type Will Make Sure Bloodhound SSC Shatters the World Land Speed Record

20 May 2015, 09:10 UTC · By: Tudor Rus / Jaguar will unveil the F-TYPE R AWD Bloodhound SSC RRV at Coventry MotoFest – one of the cars that will support the Bloodhound world land speed record attempt

 
Veyron La Finale is Bugatti’s Last Mohican in Geneva
Veyron La Finale is Bugatti’s Last Mohican in Geneva

2 Mar 2015, 22:09 UTC · By: Tudor Rus / At the Geneva International Motor Show, Bugatti is celebrating the Veyron, the fastest production supercar in the world with the La Finale special edition

 
Ford EcoBoost Prototype World Speed Records Homologated by FIA
Ford EcoBoost Prototype World Speed Records Homologated by FIA

23 Dec 2013, 10:36 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Michael Shank Racing’s two world speed records at the Daytona International Speedway with the Ford EcoBoost/Riley Daytona Prototype have been homologated by the FIA’s Land Speed Records ...

 
Bugatti Veyron SS Reinstated as the World’s Fastest Production Car
Bugatti Veyron SS Reinstated as the World’s Fastest Production Car

15 Apr 2013, 07:15 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / One week ago, Guinness World Records decided to strip the Bugatti Veyron of its “World’s fastest production car” title, pointing out that the supercar’s electronic speed limi...

 
SSC Ultimate Aero Reclaims World’s Fastest Production Car Record
SSC Ultimate Aero Reclaims World’s Fastest Production Car Record

12 Apr 2013, 13:35 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Shelby Supercars (SSC) North America has reclaimed the “World’s Fastest Production Car” title with the Ultimate Aero after Bugatti’s Veyron SS was stripped off the record by ...

 
Bugatti Veyron Stripped of World Speed Record
Bugatti Veyron Stripped of World Speed Record

8 Apr 2013, 08:46 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / The Bugatti Veyron Super Sport is no longer the fastest production car in the world, after Guinness World Records has stripped the car of its title. According to Guinness World Records' PR d...

 
Dodge Firearrow III Concept Car to Fetch $1M at Auction
Dodge Firearrow III Concept Car to Fetch $1M at Auction

4 Aug 2011, 07:08 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / As the Monterey auction gets closer as we speak, the lots set to go under the hammer at the respective event are being revealed, with one particular item catching our attention today: a 1954 Dodge F...

 
Volvo VN Sets Two New World Truck Speed Records
Volvo VN Sets Two New World Truck Speed Records

21 Jun 2010, 12:43 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / Volvo Trucks has not one, but two reasons to celebrate these days, as its Volvo FN model was recently involved in a world record breaking attempt... and it succeeded. Of course, the truck did achiev...