BLOODHOUND SSC is a Supersonic Car!
It is supersonic car designed to go faster than the speed of sound.
BLOODHOUND SSC is a jet and rocket powered car designed to go at 1,000 mph (just over 1,600 kph). It has a slender body of approximately 13.4m length with two front wheels within the body and two rear wheels mounted externally within wheel fairings. It weighs 7.5 tonnes and the engines produce more than 135,000 horsepower – more than 6 times the power of all the Formula 1 cars on a starting grid put together!
The Car is a mix of car and aircraft technology, with the front half being a carbon fibre monocoque like a racing car and the back half being a metallic framework and panels like an aircraft.
The car is of hybrid construction with the forward half of the car carbon fiber and the rear section a metallic fabrication. The front section of the car consists of a carbon fiber monocoque, similar in concept to a Formula 1 tub. This provides the driver with a very secure, rigid safety cell. It is also the most efficient way to form the complex curvature at the front of the car ahead of the cockpit and main jet intake.
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