Video: Vehicle top speeds, visualized | From a bumper car to the ThrustSSC land speed car

Colin Wood Associate Editor
6/23/25 12:53 p.m.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/yhDypXyil4g?si=bUA03_vhC6EbkyAA

Ever wonder what it looks like to go 300 mph? (Assuming you haven’t already?)

This POV visualization shows what that looks like, as well as what it's like to drive at the top speed of several other vehicles, from the Benz Patent-Motorwagen to the land speed record-setting ThrustSSC.

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Colin Wood Associate Editor
6/23/25 4:18 p.m.

This is probably the closest I'll ever come to hitting 300 mph. (Though I don't know if I really want to be driving something capable of that much speed.)

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