From Wooden Boxes to Sonic Booms: The Evolution of the World’s Fastest Cars

From the Jeantaud Duc electric car in 1898, basically a wooden box on wheels that managed 63 km/h, to the ThrustSSC in 1997, a jet-powered monster that blasted past the sound barrier at 1228 km/h, this video shows just how far “going for a drive” has evolved. From “don’t spill your tea” to “don’t rip a hole in the space-time continuum.”

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