The Bloodhound SSC is the offspring of the Thrust SSC that set the world land speed record in 1997, RAF pilot Andy Green blasting across the desert at 793 miles per hour.

That mark - of 763mph (1,228km/h) - was set 22 years ago, also by Andy Green, in the Thrust SSC car. Thrust broke the sound barrier in the process - the first, and only, car to have achieved the feat.

The folks behind the Bloodhound SSC project have been working toward ... and a rocket to produce a combined 21 metric tons of thrust at full gallop. With that kind of power situated a few feet ...

The only British cars to have gone faster are Thrust2 and Thrust SSC which both got well above 600mph (965km/h). Thrust SSC still holds the absolute land speed record of 763mph (1,228km/h ...