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Land speed record cars can get rather confusing. There's the 763mph Thrust SSC (officially the world's fastest car); the 350mph JCB Dieselmax (the world's fastest diesel); the upcoming 1,000mph Bloodhound with its rockets and jets; and now this - the 330mph Spectre Performance Infidel, which has just become the world’s fastest petrol-powered car.
And it's a Cadillac. Yup, somewhere in that sleek cigar of a body lurks a V8 lifted from a 70s Caddy, but pumped up to 8.7 litres, boosted by two turbos and kicking out a massive 1,900bhp.
And unlike most land speed cars, it runs purely on good ol' gasoline. The blokes who built it simply turned up at Bonneville, gave the Caddy a shunt in the right direction, fired up the big engine - which looks very much like a shonky bump start - then cracked 330mph in just three runs.
Then they went home to dream up the next plan. They reckon the car's got "a lot left in it", and will be back on the salt next year going for 400mph...
Watch the warp-speed video:
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What do you think?
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Da_Vincentius commented on this article
at 02:57 pm on 13 October 2009
330 mph from 1900 bhp?? That doesn't sound like much. A veyron will do 250 with half the horsepower and it isn't even as sleek as this thing.
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RoyalError commented on this article
at 03:05 pm on 13 October 2009
Weirdly the diesel powered landspeedrecordcar is still faster
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jamman commented on this article
at 03:52 pm on 13 October 2009
y don't they put a top fueler drag engine in it witch has 8000 hp imagine how much faster that would go
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Capris-r-us commented on this article
at 03:55 pm on 13 October 2009
i wonder what size tank it has?
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keen88 commented on this article
at 04:12 pm on 13 October 2009
Like Da_Vincentius says, it doesn't seem that fast compared to what production cars are achieving these days.
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