These days, the kind of car that breaks a land speed record doesn't exactly look like one you'd see at an intersection — it ...

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I’ve been in a few terrifying situations in a car. A motorway collision, a head-on smash, even a 360-degree roll through a ...

In a twist befitting the legends of motorsport, the 1969 Dodge Daytona, ousted from NASCAR in 1971, found new glory on the Bonneville Salt Flats. This pivot from track racing to setting land speed ...

Race officials, tinkerers and competitors converge in Utah every fall to test both metal and mettle Stuart Conway Photographs by Stuart Conway Bonneville is one of the flattest natural runways on the ...

The five largest four-cylinders are the Porsche M44/41, the Pontiac Trophy 4, the Simplex Model 90, the Blitzen-Benz engine, ...

With a gust in Hurricane Melissa setting a record for peak gust measured by a specialized instrument dropped into the eye of a hurricane – 252 mph – you might be wondering what the fastest wind speeds ...

When M. Bonner Denton popped the parachute and felt his body weight, doubled by deceleration, thrown against the seatbelt, he knew he was going fast. But the University of Arizona professor did not ...