http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7w_QXjXJHE
British engineers have unveiled plans for the world's first 1,000 mph (1600 km/h) car, a muscular streak of gunmetal and orange designed not to break the world land speed record but to shatter it!
Apparently almost as difficult as getting the car - called Bloodhound SSC - going at top speeds is the process of slowing down. Airbrakes and two parachutes will be used to slow the Bloodhound to a rest after each run.
And since its unlikely a road will accommodate such a car the engineers are out there looking for huge flat spaces in South Africa and the salt-flats of Australia.