A British effort to build a 1,000-mph car recently shut down due to lack of funds. The Bloodhound supersonic car (SSC) was put up for sale at an asking price of $319,000, according to the BBC. But the ...

The dream of driving 1,000 miles per hour is stuck in neutral. Bloodhound SSC, a British project to build a land-speed-record car, found itself in a position familiar to many big-dream engineering ...