YAMANASHI, JAPAN — The inside of the train car goes eerily quiet at 93 miles per hour, a familiar rattle disappearing into a hum as it lifts four inches off the ground, levitating and speeding through ...

Guinness World Records recognizes the Bugatti Super Sport version of the Veyron as the fastest street-legal production car in the world. The top speed is currently set at 267.856 mph (431.072 km/h), ...

Gov. Wes Moore‘s trade trip to East Asia, which began with a test ride of a high-speed magnetic levitation train in Japan, has prompted renewed attention on a decade-long plan to build a similar rail ...

Today, Japan’s maglev (magnetic levitation) train set a world speed record, traveling at a blazing 375 mph (603 kph) on a test track. Just a few days before, the train had set a world record when the ...

The U.S. has been fumbling with its high-speed rail plans for decades, but fast, terrestrial mass transit has been a reality in Japan for quite some time. Now, the Land of the Rising Sun one-ups us ...

A test run takes place with Mount Fuji in the backdrop. Credit: Central Japan Railway Company. Ever since it was launched in time for the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo, the Shinkansen has remained a ...