The Bloodhound SSC car has moved into final stages of preparation for its first high-speed run in 2017.
The car has returned to 3M’s Atherstone facility for its final paint job, where a top-coat is being applied that will have to survive supersonic speeds.
Work on Bloodhound’s upper chassis began on 19 December, after Volvo’s parent company and China’s seventh largest car maker, Geely, provided funding as the project’s “prime sponsor and official automotive partner”. The project aims to set a new outright land speed record of over 1000mph on a specially prepared track in South Africa in 2017 and 2018.