The Oldsmobile Rocket 88 burst onto the scene in 1949, dazzling car enthusiasts with its innovative design and powerful V8 engine. This was no ordinary vehicle; it was a trailblazer, combining a ...

The slowed-down video shows the rocket’s 33 Raptor engines firing up as the enormous 120-meter-tall vehicle leaves the launchpad. With the rocket pumping out a colossal 17 million pounds of ...

But, as a little sting in the tale, there is one unique aspect to the Rene Bonnet Djet - it was the world's first production car to get a mid-rear engine layout. And here's another curveball ...

Although there was briefly a company called Rotary Rocket, the term is much better known as a nickname for the Mazda RX-7 — one of the few cars that used a Wankel, or rotary, engine. If you ever ...

but it makes this car ridiculously fast. Try passing the traps in 12.9 seconds at 105 mph in a FWD pocket rocket normally restricted to 15.7 seconds at 88 mph. Credit for the engine swap goes to a ...

Photo: Stoke Space The first stage of the rocket is designed to use seven liquefied natural gas (LNG) - liquid oxygen (LOX) engines, and to return back to the launch pad after helping its cargo ...

It’s an intriguing thing, the Light Car Company Rocket. Masterminded and built by ... has a tuned 1070cc Yamaha bike engine that produces 171bhp (up from 143) at a heady 10,500rpm.

The rocket’s first stage is powered by seven BE-4 engines, and uses methane and liquid oxygen to produce around 3.8 million pounds of thrust at liftoff — considerably more than SpaceX’s ...

While this latest test doesn’t make nuclear-powered rocket engines viable just yet, it’s an important step on the journey. This latest batch of tests was conducted at the compact fuel element ...

A trip to Mars may be in the books for future astronauts, but current propulsion technology will have them floating in a spacecraft bound for the Red Planet for roughly six to nine months.