BloodHound SSC - 1,000mph car

[Dr Mordrid]

They finally settled on a design, and Lockheed Martin is in on the act designing wheels that can survive 50,000 G centrifugal forces.

3 engines:

a jet engine from a EuroFighter to get it to 300mph

a hybrid rocket to get it supersonic and up to 1,000mph

an 800hp gasoline engine acting as an auxiliary power unit and as an oxidizer pump for the hybrid rocket

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3mAPc9NcC4

http://bloodhoundssc.com/

http://www.physorg.com/news178355487.html

[Mehen]

1,000mph is ridiculous.

In comparison:
Harriers: between 545mph and 735mph.
F-15: low altitude speed of 900mph (over 1650mph high altitude).
F-16: low altitude speed of 915mph (over 1500mph high altitude).

[VJ]

In a way, I feel it is cheating: it is just a plane on wheels... For me, part of the definition of a car is that it is propelled through rotary motion of its wheels, not by jets...
(I know, one of the first cars designed actually used a big propeller, but that is not what we now consider "car")