Sentences with phrase «world record for»

10 - Minute Selection: Read the first section of chapter 3, «World Record for Most Altercations,» beginning a few pages in with the sentence, «And I was altercation free... for seventeen hours and two minutes.»

In 1976 Lynne broke the men's and women's world record for swimming the Oresund between Denmark and Sweden with a time of 5 hours and 9 minutes.

In 1973 at age 16 Lynne returned to England and broke the men's world record for the English Channel a second time with a time of 9 hours and 36 minutes.

As of January 2016, he has sold over 350 million books worldwide and currently holds the Guinness World Record for the most # 1 New York Times bestsellers.

Amazon customers purchased enough copies of Just Dance 3 to give 15 copies to each person who participated in setting the world record for simultaneous dancing.

A really cool factoid about him, from his «about» section on his Youtube channel, is that he holds a Guinness World record for the most # 1 New York Times bestsellers of any author.

Since then she has regularly broken records including the men's and women's world record for swimming the Oresund between Denmark and Sweden with a time of 5 hours and 9 minutes; and the men's and women's record for swimming across the Kattegut between Norway to Sweden in a time of 6 hours and 16 minutes.

In Swimming in the Sink, Lynne Cox, an open - water swimmer who set the world record for swimming across the English Channel at the age of 15, writes about how personal tragedy and a diagnosis of broken heart sydrome almost destroyed her life and her love of swimming.

He has sold over 400 million books worldwide and holds the Guinness World Record for most # 1 New York Timesbestsellers.

• To promote their summer reading program, the Seattle Public Library set a new world record for the longest book domino chain — consisting of more than 2,100 books!

His father is a lawyer who holds the world record for the most footnotes in a law review article (4,812).

Honda used a Civic Tourer with this engine to get the Guinness World Record for the best fuel economy while traveling though all 24 European countries.

- Superior peak performance for electric - drive production vehicles - Racing driver Markus Winkelhock piloted the new electric sports car with 280 kW output - Michael Dick: «To us, electric mobility means dynamics and driving pleasure» The future of electric mobility at Audi is highly dynamic: The R8 e-tron has set a world record for a production vehicle with an electric drive system on the Nürburgring Nordschleife — the toughest test track in the world.

On 1 May 2017, a 2017 Porsche Cayenne S Diesel set the Guinness World Record for heaviest aircraft pulled by a production car.

The Mercedes CLA class sets a new world record for the most aerodynamically efficient production car with a drag co-efficient of 0.23

It wasnâ $ ™ t long after we first reported that an early Model S P100D owner set the world record for quickest 1/4 mile...

This is the drivetrain that propels the Super Sport to 268 mph, the current world record for a production car.

The Tesla Model X broke the Guinness World Record for electric towing by pulling the Boeing plane.

The new world record for the Vitesse was set at the VW facility at Ehra - Lessien where Chinese driver Anthony Liu took the Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse to 254mph, creating a new world record for an open - topped production car and, more importantly for Bugatti, an excuse to produce a limited run of the Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse WRC Edition with a black and orange paint job for $ 1.99 million each.

After setting the Guinness World Record for the world's biggest loop - the - loop at its launch last year, the very same record - breaking F - Pace and stunt driver Terry Grant teamed up again for a thrilling drive at the Goodwood Festival of Speed.

The new Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport takes production sports cars to a whole new dimension Wolfsburg / Molsheim, July 4, 2010 — on a beautiful sunny day at 25 degrees the Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport achieved a new landspeed world record for production cars, on the proving grounds of the Volkswagen Group at Ehra - Lessien (nearby its headquarters at Wolfsburg).

A grand total of 1,152 Ram pickups ran the 13 - mile, 100 - something - turn Nurburgring Nordschleife on Nov. 5 in an attempt to break the Guinness World Record for most trucks in a parade lap.

The Niro has already been turning heads with its good looks, spacious utility interior, and incredible fuel economy, which it holds a Guinness World Record for.

Jaguar had to do something different, and it did just that by setting a new Guinness World Record for the longest barrel roll of any production vehicle, doing so by hitting a 50 foot - long jump and completing a 270 - degree corkscrew in the process.

Likewise, look for Bugatti to attempt to establish a new world record for the fastest production convertible with the Chiron.

Also introduced were more - powerful versions — the 1200 hp Supersport and Grand Sport Vitesse — that still hold the Guinness World Record for the fastest production coupe (431.0 km / h) and open - top roadster (408.84 km / h) in the world, respectively.

The new Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport has achieved a new landspeed world record for production cars, on the proving grounds of the Volkswagen Group at Ehra - Lessien (nearby its headquarters at Wolfsburg).

Bugatti was stripped of the world record for fastest production car on April 5, after it was discovered that the speed limiter was removed on the Veyron Super Sport used for the test.

Landspeed worldrecord with the Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport The new Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport takes production sports cars to a whole new dimension Wolfsburg / Molsheim, July 4, 2010 — on a beautiful sunny day at 25 degrees the Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport achieved a new landspeed world record for production cars, on the -LSB-...]

Jeep owners from across the country gathered in Daytona, Florida this past weekend for the annual Jeep Beach, and in doing so, set the Guinness World Record for the longest Jeep vehicle parade at 1,846 Jeeps.

The Challenger SRT Demon also is the world's first production car to lift the front wheels at launch and set the world record for longest wheelie from a standing start by a production car at 2.92 feet, certified by Guinness World Records.

During the auction, a unique 1960 DB4 GT Jet coupe set the world record for the most expensive Aston Martin ever sold, fetching a whopping 3.249 million pounds.

On today's show... Mercedes invests $ 1 billion in the U.S. to build electric SUVs... Proterra's EV bus sets the world record for longest distance traveled on a single charge... and Jaguar is getting set to release a couple of high priced performance cars to take the brand more upscale.

Stunt driver Terry Grant completed the feat on a specially - built track to claim a Guinness World Record for the biggest ever loop - the - loop by a car - a record that it'll be hard for anyone ever to find the inclination (or cash) to break.

Bugatti's record set back in 2010 is official all over again, after having its world record for fastest production car thrown into question by a competitor and put under review by Guinness.

With Japanese drift champion Masato Kawabata behind the wheel, a heavily modified Nissan GT - R broke the Guinness World Record for the fastest recorded drift.

Range Rover Sport took on all 14,100 ft of Pikes Peak, Colorado Springs, USA and set a world record for a production vehicle.

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World record for the BUGATTI Chiron: the 1,500 PS super car has accelerated from a standing start to 400 km / h (249 mph) and braked back to a standstill in just 42 seconds (41.96).

In another of those «We didn't know there was a world record for that» stories, we reported earlier this month that a new Guinness World Record had been set for the furthest golf shot caught -LSB-...]

Toyota has managed to set a new Guinness World Record for having the most vehicles in a hybrid parade.

Hennessey Venom, which is manufactured by United States - based Hennessey Performance Engineering, holds the world record for fastest acceleration.

French rally driver and professional skier Guerlain Chicherit's attempt to beat Tanner Foust's Guinness World Record for the longest car jump ended badly on March 18.

Driver Brian Smith set the world record for the fastest production car ever built in a Hennessey Venom GT on Feb. 14, 2014.

The luxurious and powerful Maserati Levante assisted Jamie Barrow, a well - known snowboarder, in breaking the Guinness World Record for the fastest speed on a snowboard towed by a vehicle.

It was able to achieve a top speed of 270.49 mph on a runway a couple of years ago, and set the Guinness world record for quickest car from 0 - 300 km / h.

Honda sure has, setting a new Guinness World Record for lowest fuel consumption through all 24 European Union countries.

Infiniti recently took an M35h to a drag strip in the U.K., recorded a quarter - mile time of 13.9 seconds, and thus set a Guinness World Record for the «fastest accelerating full hybrid.»

This has been verified as a new world record for an electric production car.

That's a new world record for a convertible car.