Best Speed Record Quotes

"Fastest Furniture, achieving an average speed of 113.8k – it's an actual Guinness World Record."

"The first ever land speed record was recorded in 1989 in France... the car was actually powered by an electric motor and completed a flying kilometer in 57 seconds, which is a massive 39.24 mph."

"It then took another 27 years to break the 700 mph barrier in September 1997 with Andy Green and the Thrust SSC."

"Rosco is an incredibly interesting guy... from a V8 drag bike with no clutch to a 250 mph rocket-powered go-kart to his land speed record attempts and his bid to break 1,000 mph."

"He's just set a new fastest lap of the race."

"The latest Tesla Model S P100D with the ludicrous upgrade is the fastest accelerating production car in the world."

"He set a world speed record and proved beyond question that his vision of the future of the nation and his beloved Air Service were correct."

"Kawasaki Ninja H2R: The world's quickest two-wheeled vehicle!"

"The Beast of Turin: Faster than an airplane, built in 1910!"

"27 hours 25 minutes... we were able to break that 100 mile an hour overall average barrier... 103.1 miles per hour for 2825 miles."

"The speed increase over such a brief period of time was unprecedented in the history of aviation record attempts."

"The official unofficial fastest guy to ever go fast with a Christmas tree - 201 miles an hour."

"Makes the Pariah the quickest non rocket-powered car in the entire game."

"It set a new speed record... making it the first aircraft to break through the 400 mile an hour barrier."

"Dodge Tomahawk, the fastest motorcycle in the world."

"Mickey Thompson became the world's fastest man." - Achieving a remarkable milestone in speed.

"Tesla Model S Plaid: fastest production car ever, zero to 60 miles per hour in under two seconds."

"The LNER Class A4 4468, aka the Mallard: setting a record for the steam train at 126 miles per hour."

"The Shanghai maglev: the fastest commercial electric train in the world."

"The TGV POS: setting a new world record speed for travel on conventional rails."

"The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird set the current world record for jet aircraft at 3530 kilometers per hour."

"The fastest rocket-powered manned aircraft was the X-15."

"With a top speed of 407 kilometers per hour, the Bugatti Veyron is the fastest production car ever built."

"The first 911 turbo was the fastest production car on earth."

"The record stands at over 600 kilometers per hour."

"That's actually a new record for a series production vehicle."

"Bugatti stole the record from its older brother with a 267 mile per hour top speed."

"The Plaid Model S is the fastest production car ever made."

"The Model S Plaid promises to be the fastest production car ever."

"SSC Tuatara: broke the record for being the world's fastest production car."

"We're obviously going for a speed record, but the priority is to be on the ground safely."

"Venturi Electric Vehicle: 'A world land speed record set by the Venturi Buckeye Bullet 3.'"

"The JCB Diesel Max: 'The highest speed ever reached in a diesel-powered vehicle.'"

"The Bugatti Chiron Super Sport 300+ is the world's fastest production car."

"The P-47: the ultimate Thunderbolt, the fastest plane in the war."

"This car the Civic type-r around the Nurburgring holds the record for the world's fastest front-wheel drive car 7 minutes 43 seconds."

"Makita had an impressive speed of 28.69 seconds."

"Another one, that's the fastest dough rolling I've ever seen."

"This week is actually the 10-year anniversary of when our Venom GT beat the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport by running... a little over 270 mph."

"This is currently the fastest production car in the world around the Nürburgring"

"My goal was 400 miles per hour and that is what we reached so I am happy."

"The race version of the Daytona became the first car in NASCAR history to break 200 m per hour."

"The Supermarine S4 broke the world seaplane speed record."

"The car that set the hundred-mile-per-hour lap record."

"Burt's record-breaking speed that year was officially recorded at 178.971 miles per hour."

"The X-15 speed record was set by a US Air Force pilot William Knight, and this record still hasn't been beaten, even if it's not recognized by the International Aeronautical Federation, reasoning that X-15 did not take off from land, but performed an air launch from a carrier."

"By the time we got to the start of October and did the two supersonic runs, the car was now looking battered, the team was looking battered, the desert was looking battered."

"Would the car go faster? Yes. But we had done what it said on the tin, TR Supersonic Car, new supersonic World Land Speed Record."

"There you go, Andy Green, the legend, can't wait for his movie Mac One and the story of this amazing Beast."

"We broke the world speed record which still stands today, mark 5.6. There's never been an air breathing missile that's flown that fast in the last 40 years."

"It is the fastest SUV around the Nurburgring."

"We've been 6.82 at 214 mph in a 2,830 lb stick shift car with an LT1 small block production block."

"It's believed to be one of four used by Donald Campbell in the water speed record in Lake Coniston in 1967."

"Billy Meyer, officially the fastest funny car in the world at 245 miles an hour."

"The aircraft flies so high and fast that no missile has yet succeeded in shooting one down."

"At one point held the world record for fastest accelerating car."

"574.8 kilometers per hour, it's the new world record on Rails."

"Its Rainhill Trials were won by the legendary Rocket which was the first man-made machine to exceed 30 miles per hour."

"On November the 30th, 1934, a locomotive called Flying Scotsman roared into the record books as the fastest steam loco in the world."

"The blue ribband, a symbol of pride and accomplishment, held great significance in the world of transatlantic travel."

"It's a similar milestone in metric, of course, a truly memorable 48.28 kilometers per hour for 16.9 kilometers."

"The quickest and fastest production muscle car in the world."

"Good God, Kenny Bernstein, you love history, right? How about 314 miles an hour?"

"We are still by my reckoning on a record speed for this race today."

"The time for the day it was 4 hours and 51 minutes and that was an average speed of 42 kilometres an hour, the fastest race on record."

"The AMG GTR went 7 minutes and 10 seconds on the Nurburgring, the fastest production rear-wheel drive car ever on the track at the time."

"However, in 2019, Regera set the record for zero to 400 kilometers per hour and back to zero in just 31.49 seconds."

"This is New York Central and Hudson River Railroad number 999, the locomotive famously known for being the first steam engine in the world to reach over 100 miles per hour in 1893."

"The Bluebird K7 was built during the heyday of water speed record attempts and would set a new bar that would remain unbroken for almost two decades."

"The Vesta Sail Rocket is an ingenious concept that proves this and in 2012 would go on to set the speed record for boats in its class."

"In October of 1978, the Spirit of Australia was clocked at a speed of 317.6 miles or 511.1 kilometers per hour, a record that stands to this day."

"This is currently the fastest car in the world, the Ultimate Aero, certified Guinness Book of World Records, beat the Bugatti Veyron."

"The Corsair... was the first fighter to exceed 400 miles an hour in level flight."

"The record has been pushed past 300 and then 350 miles an hour."

"On the 3rd of July 1938, this locomotive attained a world speed record for steam locos of 126 miles per hour."

"Dayak is the world's fastest three-wheeled electric car, capable of accelerating from 0 to 62 mph in a record-breaking 1.8 seconds."

"My ultimate goal would be to beat the 0 to 100 meter UAV speed record."

"This model set four speed records, including the world's fastest production car of its time."

"Jackie Cochran caused a sensation with the speed of three hundred and four miles per hour set while breaking a record at the National Air Show."

"80 miles an hour, a new world record, ladies and gentlemen."

"On March 24, 1970, 48 years ago today, Buddy Baker Jr. was the first person to go 200 miles an hour on a NASCAR track."

"The SRT 10 held the record for world's fastest production truck for quite a while."

"City of Truro is reputed to have reached 102.3 miles per hour on the descent of Wellington Bank."

"With a top speed of 408 kmph, the Dubai Police now holds the title for the world's fastest police vehicle."

"It was the fastest authenticated speed reached by a steam locomotive."

"This is the Panamera 4S diesel, a 177 mph Super Saloon that now holds the crown as the fastest production diesel car in the world."

"It's a big deal being the fastest man and the fastest team, fastest car in the shootout at Bathurst."

"They'd beaten Ferrari and established a new average speed record of 126 miles per hour."

"The fastest four-cylinder in the world, by Carl Brunet."

"Mark Martin wins the fastest race ever with an average race speed of 188.354 miles per hour."

"The Hindenburg could boast two days to Europe, fastest crossing of the ocean ever, and exponentially faster than any ship could possibly do it."

"This car is very, very capable of running a seven-second pass."

"It's the world's fastest mass-produced sedan."

"The first world land speed record on the Bonneville Salt Flats was set on September 3rd, 1935 by Sir Malcolm Campbell; his speed was 301.13 miles per hour."