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The world's most powerful car that can travel a mile in 3.6 seconds at full speed has been unveiled.

The stunning vehicle - named Bloodhound - went on display in Canary Wharf, east London today boasting incredible speeds of up to 1,000mph.

Costing £10million to make, the car was assembled at Avonmouth, near Bristol following research and design that has had the input of experts from more than 350 universities and companies.

After being unveiled this morning, Bloodhound is readying to smash the world land speed record currently held by Andy Green in Thrust SSC, which reached 763mph in the Black Rock Desert, Nevada, back in 1997.

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Now 52, Mr Green will get into the driver's seat of Bloodhound to make the world record attempt.

The team behind Bloodhound will carry out 200mph trials next year at Newquay Aerohub in Cornwall before embarking on a series of high-speed runs in a desert venue in South Africa.

Speaking to the Mirror at the unveiling this morning, lead engineer Mark Elvin said: "This week was the first time it left the assembly point - looking at it you just think 'wow'.

"Working on this project feels like being a part of history. It's great to be finally able to share our work.

"I have no doubt in my mind that we will beat the world record next year. We'll go for 800mph, and then in 2017 we'll come back and go for 1,000mph."

The supersonic car has a Rolls-Royce EJ200 jet from a Eurofighter Typhoon, a cluster of Nammo hybrid rockets and a Jaguar V8 engine that drives the rocket oxidiser pump.

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Between them they generate 135,000 thrust horsepower, equivalent to 180 F1 cars.

The Bloodhound is 13.4m long, 6ft in diameter and weighs 7.5 tonnes.

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For visitors taking a peek at the incredible vehicle, engineers have partially removed the carbon fibre panels from one side of the vehicle in order to show off the technology inside.

The vehicle is on display over the next two days to 8,000 people, with the event already fully booked.