Car records are cool. But some records are just more cool than others, even though they hardly make any sense.

All impressive figures, and all of them would lose in a top-speed race to this remote ... He's held and broken the past few Guinness World Records for R/C cars, hitting 161.76 in 2008 and 171. ...

In the spirit of speed, [James Whomsley] strapped a jet turbine engine to an RC car, and learned some hard lessons along the way. The car started as a four-wheel drive electric race car ...