Aston Martin seeks to up the ante in motorsports at the 2013 ADAC Zurich 24 Hours of Nürburgring at the world’s most difficult race circuit. Their weapon of choice: a pioneering Aston Martin Rapide S with a bespoke hybrid hydrogen powertrain. The new Aston Martin Hybrid Hydrogen Rapide S will be the first hydrogen-powered car [...]
Some of the world’s most famous sports car manufacturers have built test facilities around the Nurburgring to to prepare and engineer new vehicles on one of the most grueling tracks in the world. Hyundai has now announced that it will be building a test facility at the famous track in Nurburgring – with construction already [...]
Why unofficially? Because, the BMW M135i here is completely stock along with a regular driver who isn’t a BMW certified driver or a race car driver. The 8:05 lap time around the Nordschleife makes it faster thatn the E92 M3, the BMW 1 M Coupe, the Z4 M Coupe, E60 M5, Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG and [...]
Our close friends over at DRIVE recently had the chance to head over to the Nurburgring and visit Jaguar’s Test Center in Industrial Park. Drive’s JF Musial was given a private tour of the test facility with Phil Talboys, head of European Test Operations for Jaguar, as well as a lap of the Nordshliefe with [...]
Porsche has dropped a video of the 911 Carrera S lapping the Nurburgring Nordschleife. Driven by by Timo Kluck, the new Porsche 911 Carrera S managed to bring in an impressive time of 7:37.9. That puts the new Porsche 911 Carrera S right between the Lexus LFA and the Chevrolet Camaro ZL1. Power for the [...]
While Porsche was at the Nurburgring trying to set a lap-time record (which they did of 7 minutes and 14 seconds), they invited our friend Chris Harris to take a ride in the company’s latest creation. Unfortunately, the ride only consisted of a quick ride around the streets of Nurburgring. Check out more news on [...]
Jaguar continues releasing video footage taking us through the development process of the new F-Type sports cars. The company has just dropped two new videos called ‘Fierce’ and ‘Focused’ where engineers test the new Jaguar F-Type of two of the most famous tracks in the world – the Nardo in Italy and the Nurburgring in [...]
Most sports car manufacturers are pretty hush-hush when it comes to the release of a new supercar. Porsche, however, is not trying to cover up any details on its new 918 Spyder plug-in hybrid. Porsche has already confirmed that the 918 Spyder will produce 770-hp with a 0 to 62 mph time of 3.2 seconds [...]
Back in July, Porsche said that it was aiming to bring in a Nurburgring lap time of less than 7 minutes and 22 seconds with the 918 Spyder. Check out more news on the Porsche 918 Spyder. Well, the Porsche engineering time finally hit the Nordschleife track on the Nurburgring and managed to lap the famous [...]
Ford’s tiny 1.0 liter EcoBoost engine has scored one of the fastest lap times ever at Germany’s Nurburgring Nordschleife circuit. Going around the track in the form of a small Formula Ford race car, the racer completed the lap in just 7 minutes and 22 seconds, coming in higher on the list than such 600+ horsepower supercars [...]
