The self - propelled Bloodhound SuperSonic ##s aims to be the first car to hit 1,000 mph . ` No rubber , '' he told CNN from The Bloodhound Project headquarters in Bristol , UK . ` The boosters , engineers say , will push car through the sound barrier to world record . The team plans to try in 2016 at Hakskeen Pan , in Northern Cape , South Africa . Driver Andy Green already holds the world land speed record of 763 mph , set in 1997 .
The self - propelled Bloodhound SuperSonic ##s aims to be the first car to hit 1,000 mph . The boosters , engineers say , will push car through the sound barrier to world record . The team plans to try in 2016 at Hakskeen Pan , in Northern Cape , South Africa . Driver Andy Green already holds the world land speed record of 763 mph , set in 1997 .