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What is the land speed record?


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Andy Green has the land speed record by reaching 763.035 mph in his jet-propelled car!

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The current land speed record for a manned vehicle was set on 10/15/97 by Andy Green, which was 760.343 MPH. While the unmanned speed record is 6,462 MPH, which was set on 4/30/03. The first 'land speed record' dates back to 1898, which was 39 MPH.

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The current unmanned land speed record is held by a railed vehicle. It reached Mach 8.5 (6,416mph) in 2003. ChaCha on!

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760.343 mph

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The current land speed record is 763 mph or 1,227km/h set by the ThrustSSC vehicle and driver Andy Green in 1997. Thanks for using ChaCha!

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328 mph is the current fastest land speed of a vehicle.

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Andy Green set the current record of 760 MPH on October 15th, 1997 in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada. ChaCha!

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The land speed record (or absolute land speed record) is the fastest speed achieved by any wheeled vehicle on land. Thanks, ChaCha

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The British Thrust SSC set the supersonic land-speed record at 766.109 mph on its second attempt in the Nevada desert.

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