14 DAY TRIAL // Engineer Mark Elvin and his colleagues are now hard at work trying to build a super-fast car that they hope will put to shame pretty much all land speed records that ever were.
The rocket-powered vehicle they want to design and build, featured in the image accompanying this article, is nicknamed the Bloodhound, and rightfully so.
Thus, Live Science tells us that, sometime in 2016, Mark Elvin and colleagues will take the car to the Kalahari Desert in Africa and try to accelerate it to a jaw-dropping 1,000 miles per hour (1,609 kilometers per hour).
Should the Bloodhound actually reach this speed, it will undoubtedly become the absolute fastest car ever to be raced anywhere in the world. Until somebody else ties a rocket to another four-wheeler, that is.
It is understood that, before his historic drive in Africa's Kalahari Desert, the rocket-powered Bloodhoud will be subjected to several tests at somewhat lower speeds.
Thus, this coming summer, it will be accelerated to 200 miles per hour (322 kilometers per hour) on a track in the UK, the folks behind the Bloodhound project say.
Later this year, it will visit the Kalahari Desert for the first time in its existence and attempt reaching 800 miles per hour (1,287 kilometers per hour) while racing around it.
In case anyone was wondering, the current land speed record is 763 miles per hour (1,227 kilometers per hour). It is held by Thrust SSC, a United Kingdom-based team.