In August 2003, MG Rover Group Ltd entered the I record books, achieving a top speed of 225.609mph at the 55th annual Bonneville Speed Week Nationals, held on the Salt Flats in Utah, USA.
Codenamed X-15, the Solar Red ZT-T was the brainchild of Nick Stephenson, Deputy Chairman of Phoenix Venture Holdings (himself an accomplished drag racer in the UK) and MG Rover Design Director Peter Stevens. There was a fair amount of sound reasoning behind what may have seemed like an excessively expensive PR stunt for a struggling car company. After all, Bonneville Speed Week doesn’t come cheap, nor does building a bespoke dragster that will hold steady up to speeds in
