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Jonathan Gitlin Over in Germany, you’ll find what may well be the scariest race track of all time. The Nürburgring Nordschleife is a 12.9-mile (20.8km) ribbon of tarmac wrapped around the Eifel Mountains that challenges a car like nowhere else on earth. Originally built as public works project in the 1920s, it got too fast […]
The world has a new production four-door king of the ‘Ring, the Jaguar XE SV Project 8. Jaguar revealed that its limited-production sedan set a lap time of 7 minutes, 21 seconds. Before anyone starts commenting, yes, the Subaru WRX STI Type RA NBR Special is faster with a sub-7-minute time, but it’s a purpose-built […]
Jaguar XE SV Project 8 has just become the world’s fastest four-door car. It clinched the title after completing a blistering lap of the Nurburgring in 7 minutes 21.23 seconds. This makes it a whopping 11 seconds quicker than the previous fastest sedan around the 12.9-mile track and faster than a number of two-door coupes […]
Fans of station wagons and high-performance cars, meet your new king, the Mercedes-AMG E63 S. Mercedes claims that the station wagon set a new standard for wagons at the Nürburgring Nordschleife. It managed to hustle around the famed track in 7:45.19. That time is about a whopping 13 seconds faster than the former record holder, […]
The sound of the $ 293,200 911 GT2 RS is like nothing in the current Porsche lineup – or on the road right now, period. Hammer the floor-mounted accelerator pedal and the GT2 RS spits raw, melodious frequencies that will rumble your spine and make your hair stand on end. “We wanted to make an […]
The Lamborghini Urus is coming on December 4, just days after the end of the 2017 Los Angeles Auto Show. The Italian automaker’s first SUV has been in development for years, but things are finally coming to a climax. Crossovers are hot, so we wouldn’t be surprised at all if the Urus becomes Lamborghini’s best-selling […]
– Numbers don’t lie. They defy interpretation. That’s one reason why car-obsessed souls pore over performance numbers such as horsepower, acceleration times, and lateral grip with religious zeal. We’ve all watched with varying levels of envy, awe, and stupefaction at how ’Ringmeisters tame what Sir Jackie Stewart once called the Green Hell. The German Nürburgring’s […]
– When it comes to estimating the performance of its cars, Porsche is surprisingly conservative. C/D often beats the company’s published zero-to-60-mph times in our testing, and it turns out that Porsche is no different when spitballing Nürburgring lap times. With the new 911 GT2 RS, Porsche guessed it could pull off a lap in less […]
If you were impressed by the blistering record lapSubaru managed with its Prodrive-tailored Nürburgring weapon earlier, get ready for this: With the new 911 GT2 RS, Porsche undercut that sub-7 minute time by over 10 seconds. Porsche’s 6:47.3 lap is not only the fastest 911 Nürburgring lap ever, it’s a record for road-legal sports cars […]
Over the past few weeks, we’ve been following the attempts by a team of Dodge Viper enthusiasts to recapture the production-car lap record at the Nürburgring. Dodge once held the Ring record, actually not once, but twice, long ago with the previous-generation Viper ACR, but it never went back with the latest ACR. And now, […]
