Following a report earlier this week, Lexus has officially confirmed that the Lexus LFA Nurburgring Package laps the Nurburgring Nordschleife in 7:14.64, a new fastest time for regular production cars. LFA test driver and professional racer Akira Iida recorded a lap time of 7:14.64 in a fully road-legal car, running on standard specification Bridgestone Potenza [...]
We previously have an official video of the Lexus LFA Nurburgring Edition lapping the Nurburgring Nordschleife in a blistering 7:22.85. While that was as official as it gets, a new report comes via Twitter saying that the Lexus LFA Nurburgring Edition has topped its previous lap time, returning a quick 7:14. The news comes via Twitter accounts of Chris [...]
Nurburgring lap times are very important in this day and age for supercars and it seems like they will be just as important for electric-vehicles. Toyota announced today that it set a new lap record for an electric-vehicles at the Nurburgring Nordschleife circuit in Germany with the company’s TMG EV P001. Driven by Jochen Krumbach, the TMG [...]
Some of BMW’s latest efforts have caused a major uproar in the enthusiast community. For instance, for the first time ever, BMW will be producing a front-wheel drive model when several years ago, they proudly said that front-wheel drive was work of Satan. And unfortunately in this bit of BMW news, BMW may once again [...]
A high-performance electric powertrain has been crafted by Toyota Motorsport GmbH and is going to try to break an existing lap record. Toyota’s electric vehicle is set to run its laps at the Nurburgring Nordschleif at the end of this month. The car is completely electric and the brand is setting out to show that [...]
Hey BMW fans! You’ll love this! A member of one of the largest online enthusiast communities for the BMW 1-Series decided to record a video of himself driving his latest acquisition—a brand spankin’ new BMW 1-Series M Coupe – around the world’s most difficult racetrack against a previous generation E46 M3 CSL. The E46 M3 [...]
For those of you with large bank accounts that thought that new Aston Martin V12 Zagato will only be a concept and an endurance racer at the Nurburgring 24 Hour Race, you’re about to get a nice little surprise. Aston Martin has confirmed that it will produce Aston Martin V12 Zagato in very limited quantities. On its [...]
At the Nurburgring, the BMW M5 has always been synonymous with the Ring Taxi. The M5 has always been given the responsibility of tackling many problems on the world’s most difficult circuit – so when we heard that BMW was swapping the M5 an M3 Sedan as the Ring Taxi, we were a bit disappointed… [...]
While it’s still unofficial, reports suggest that a BMW driver lapped the Nurburgring in a 2012 BMW M5 in 7:55 seconds. That makes the 2012 BMW M5 4 seconds faster around the Ring than the Cadillac CTS-V and 1 second faster than the Porsche Panamera Turbo, which are the only to production sedan to return [...]
The 2012 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 and the Corvette Z06 have both been eating up headlines about Nurburgring lap times. Well, right before this past weekend’s 35th annual Nurburgring 24 Hour Race, Lexus took its LFA Nurburgring Edition for a run around the Nordschleife. Click here for more news on the Lexus LFA. Piloted by Gazoo [...]
