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After experiencing a false start of sorts at Bonneville Speed Week last month, Volkswagen has now returned to the famous salt flats and gone home with a world record in tow with a modified 2019 Jetta zipping past the land speed record for its class.

​Jaguar Land Rover is no stranger to crazy stunts, but the latest effort is undoubtedly its coolest. After a Land Rover Discovery pulled a Road Train through the Australian Outback, the team at Jaguar has set a new world record for towed speed on skis in the Arctic Circle.

Nearly 50 years ago, Burt Munro set a record of nearly 184 mph (296 km/h) in the under 1000 cc class on a 1920 Indian Scout. In August, Burt Munro's great nephew will pilot a new purpose-built Indian Scout Streamliner at the Bonneville Salt Flats in honor of the 50th Anniversary of that record.​

Trains held the land speed record until 1907 when Glen Curtis ran 136 mph on a V8 motorcycle. Within a decade he would become the Henry Ford of the aerospace industry, but his motorcycle record of 1907 was not bested until 1930.

Fiat's performance brand, Abarth, has announced that a new 695 biposto called the Record is entering showrooms in the United Kingdom ahead of a global release. Only 133 will be produced.​

A Bentley Continental GT Speed driven by actor Idris Elba has set a new British land speed record. The "Flying Mile" takes the average speed of a vehicle across two rolling-start runs of a mile (1.6 km) each. Elba achieved an average speed of 180.361 mph (290.263 km/h).

It looks as though the Nürburgring Nordschleife may have a new contender for its production car lap record. Two Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus (SCG) SCG003C supercars were entered in the VLN Endurance Championship season opener with SCG saying their performances were cause for optimism.

Hoping to put a new spin on an old technology, the Desktop Record Cutter (DRC) allows home musicians to press their music onto wax within minutes with turn-key stereo cutting technology. The machine is fully automated for ease of use, while allowing engineers to customize the DRC with upgrades.

Guinness hands DARPA’s Terahertz Electronics program the award for the fastest solid-state amplifier integrated circuit. Developed by Northrop Grumman, the Terahertz Monolithic Integrated Circuit (TMIC) is a ten-stage common-source amplifier that cranks speeds of one terahertz (10¹² Hz).

Renault is king of the hot hatches once again, after its Megane R.S. 275 Trophy-R shaved four seconds from the Nürburgring lap record for two wheel-drive production vehicles. Renault achieved its record lap time of 7:54.36 by putting the R.S. on a strict diet, and bumping up its power output.

Last week, Don Wales, grandson of Sir Malcolm Campbell, opened a new multimedia exhibit celebrating the golden age of British land speed record breaking entitled “Britain & For The Hell Of It” at the National Motor Museum, Beaulieu, Hampshire.

The mantle of world's fastest production car looks to have been broken this month with Hennessey Performance announcing that its Venom GT hit 270.49 mph (435.31 km/h) at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.