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Record-breakers & famous machines
The biggest trucks ever built, mining giants, Australian road trains, the land speed record and the engines that made history.
Some machines are built to be the biggest, the heaviest or the fastest. These are the stories behind the giants of mining, the land speed record cars and the engines car fans still talk about decades later.
RecordsGiant machines of mining and industryMeet the biggest wheeled and tracked machines ever built, from 450-tonne haul trucks to bucket-wheel excavators longer than a football field, and learn why they are so big.RecordsIconic engines that made historyThe car and truck engines enthusiasts still talk about, from the Ford flathead V8 and Chevy small-block to the Volkswagen flat-four, Mazda rotary and legendary truck diesels.