In this infographic from Select Car Leasing, you’ll discover the first car ever to record a land speed record all the way back in 1898, a LSR car named “The Easter Egg”, the first ever internal combustion powered car to break the LSR, the first car that had part car part aero plane engine and many others along the way. It also looks at the Bonneville Salt Flats and the Black Rock Desert, where the majority of these records were set as well as analyzing why a turbo jet engine generates so much thrust?
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