Construction begins on supercar
 

Construction work formally begins this week on what is expected to be the world's fastest car.

Called Bloodhound, the vehicle has been designed to reach 1,000mph (1,600km/h).

It will attempt to set the mark as it breaks the land speed record on a dried out lake bed in South Africa's Northern Cape late next year.

Bloodhound has been in design for the past three years. It will be powered by a Eurofighter-Typhoon jet engine bolted above a hybrid rocket.

The power unit combination should deliver a thrust in the order of 2,000 kilonewtons (47,000lb).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12383551

Note: 7 February 2011 Last updated at 13:24 GMT

Worlds fastest car or worlds lowest flying jet? :hmmm:

It sounds more like it will be a combination, but it seems skewed to the one you mention here, Worlds Lowest flying jet...:o

Just take the wings off the jet.:O:

What a rush to have the ground only a couple feet away passing by at a thousand miles an hour. Bet the pucker factor will be way up there...

I was a bit confused by the BBC's link to 'Cosworth supplied the engine' to find that Cosworth were indeed providing a Formula1 engine - that's definately not fitted in a Typhoon!

Then I returned to reading the original article -

Now it makes sense :yep:

Fastest? Maybe. Supercar? No. "Supercar" is always used in my experience to label a legal, production road car (even if only a handful are biuilt). If this is not "street legal" it ain't a "supercar." IMHO.

Hypercar? :hmmm:

Experimental Test Vehicle.

Spectrum Pursuit Vehicle

Trouser Change Necessitator

That kind of words can only come from a woman, :O:

The Real Supercar :rock:

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Cheers

Garion
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Exactly, those are class of their own, along with Hyper cars, which are the elite of the supercar class.

You can say that only because you never sat in the passenger seat of my car. Okay, actually, the old car with the pre oil embargo Chevy V8 engine. Given the lead content of my right foot, I probably never should have been entrusted with it.

The thought of what I would do with an F1 engine simply staggers the imagination. :O: