Pencil-shaped, the Bloodhound SSC supersonic car aims to rewrite history in the summer of 2015. At that time, the car will attempt to reach a land speed of 1,000 mph—easily exceeding the world land speed record of 763 mph, set by its predecessor Thrust SSC on Oct. 15, 1997.
The Bloodhound is designed by professors Oubay Hassan and Ken Morgan of the college of engineering at Swansea
(Wales University) and has been in development since 2008. A full-scale model of the car was unveiled in July 2010 at the Farnborough International Airshow in Hampshire, England.