For Scott Speed, setting the fastest time in a road-going car at the Goodwood Festival of Speed started well before the first ...

What is the fastest car in the world? It seems like a simple enough question to ask, but answering it isn't so easy. Any automaker can claim their cars can do insane speeds or accelerate like bats out ...

The automotive industry can trace its roots back to 1885, when Carl Benz developed the Benz Patent Motor Car. At this time, overall top speeds weren't much of a focus — all that mattered was a better ...

How Fast are Formula 1 Cars? F1 cars in 2026 reach race top speeds between 340 and 355 km/h (211 and 220 mph), with ...

Land speed records are hardly a new phenomenon; the first such mark of 39.34 miles per hour was set by Frenchman Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat in an electric Jeantaud Duc carriage way back in 1898. That ...

A British hobbyist has applied multicopter drone thinking to radically simplify the steering and powertrain of his high-performance radio-control car – and absolutely demolished the world top speed ...

Since its debut last year, Chevrolet’s C8 Corvette ZR1 has proven to be truly authoritative in its performance capabilities. From a quintuplet of fastest laps at circuits around the United States to a ...