Bloodhound supersonic car backed by Chinese taxi biz Geely

Tuesday 27th September 2016 10:57 GMT lglethal

Goal: Overtaking

I would hope Overtaking was a standard feature in a car manufacturer rather than just a goal for the future...

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1. Tuesday 27th September 2016 12:02 GMT Vinyl-Junkie
  
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  Actually I thought the opposite - the last thing we want is something overtaking Bloodhound!
  
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2. Tuesday 27th September 2016 12:45 GMT macjules
  
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  Great news for the London Taxi Company though. Now I can at least say that, "If your employer can get a car running at 1,000mph you could at least try and get from Fulham to The City in less than a bloody hour mate"
  
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Tuesday 27th September 2016 11:01 GMT Dr Who

Excellent news. Of cours the investors have all been duped. The car will never reach 1000mph. As it hits 888mph (we have moved on you know) the flux capacitor will kick in and the whole thing will disappear leaving but a trail of flames.

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1. Tuesday 27th September 2016 21:36 GMT Alan Brown
  
  "As it hits 888mph (we have moved on you know) the flux capacitor will kick in and the whole thing will disappear leaving but a trail of flames."
  
  Will it reappear on the other side of the mountain range? (Yes, I know. Different movie, but it does start with a speed record attempt)
  
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Tuesday 27th September 2016 11:10 GMT Anonymous Coward

Sad day

I'm pleased for the project but isn't it depressing that our own home grown businesses won't support anything British? (What is not BAe told their staff not to get involved in Noble's original project.)

There's money to spare for supporting political parties and billions to be squirrelled away in tax avoidance schemes, but nothing to be found for anything remotely patriotic.

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1. Tuesday 27th September 2016 12:25 GMT TitterYeNot
  
  Re: Sad day
  
  Yes it is a little sad (though good that the project can now continue again.)
  
  The main reason I reached into my pocket to help a little with this (other than it being a car with a jet engine and a frikkin' rocket!) was the emphasis on encouraging school kids around the country to get into STEM subjects, which should help us remain competitive as a country in high tech industry (we know the days of low tech cheap manufacturing are long gone from these shores, so we'll need these skills in the future.) The alternative is becoming a nation of banks and advertising agencies. Makes me shudder to think of it.
  
  And now the car will be used to promote STEM subjects in China instead. Own goal I think.
  
  <Sighs>
  
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Tuesday 27th September 2016 11:50 GMT inmypjs

"our mutual technology breakthrough"

What technology is a world land speed record attempting rocket going to share with taxis?

Bloodhound got money, Geely got advertising - end of story.

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Tuesday 27th September 2016 12:02 GMT Your alien overlord - fear me

So China is keen to get their kids knowledgeable about STEM but what about democracy, freedom of speech and so on?

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Tuesday 27th September 2016 12:15 GMT Paul Woodhouse

comfortable pear?... damn, there's a reason you should at least put tone marks on the pinyin when your writing Chinese names..

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1. Tuesday 27th September 2016 17:23 GMT Stoneshop
  
  BtAF reference 247
  
  put tone marks on the pinyin when your writing Chinese names..
  
  And you should put apostrophes in your sentences when you're writing contractions..
  
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Tuesday 27th September 2016 18:41 GMT montyburns56

The Knowledge

Sorry mate, I don't go south of Bonneville at this time of night.

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Tuesday 27th September 2016 23:25 GMT Crazy Operations Guy

Shouldn't that be 1610 km/h?

I thought only Americans were stupid enough to use antiquated units of measure like "mile"...

Maybe we can get the US (and the Brits who still use the 'Standard' measurement system to join the rest of the technologically advanced countries by pointing out that 12.7 cm sounds a lot more impressive than 5 inches.

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