Looking back now, it's hard to believe how far we've come, and how many incredible high-performance manual models we've lost ...

Modern drag cars are a marvel of engineering, combining extreme power with advanced technology to achieve blistering speeds.

It isn't unheard of for today's fastest street-legal cars to reach top speeds of 250 mph or more. After an exhilarating ride like that, it's hard to imagine ever being able to drive 65 mph again, let ...

Land speed records are hardly a new phenomenon; the first such mark of 39.34 miles per hour was set by Frenchman Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat in an electric Jeantaud Duc carriage way back in 1898. That ...