It’s not every day that we get excited about new fitness-focused footwear. Take a look at the Thrust 2.0 from Zeven, however, and you’ll probably think this is some new footwear from the better-known ...

Great events always have a brilliant story behind them, and Thrust 2 is certainly no different. Richard Noble and his team began building the car on the Isle of Wight in 1979 with a budget of £175.

With this, the Thrust SSC became the first car to travel faster than the speed of sound, and it totally decimated the previous land speed record by about 210 km/h. The previous record was held by the ...

When driver Andy Green fires the rocket, he tells Steve Cropley, the car will generate 25,000lb ft of thrust ...

The desire to break the land speed record goes back to the earliest days of the motor car, where inventors would compete against each other to see whose machine was the fastest. The race hit its peak ...