Nurburgring

For bragging rights to be the world's fastest car, Nurburgring Nordschleife is the benchmark. The Lotus Evija X – an all-electric hypercar – entered the 'Ring, looking to take the crown from the Mercedes AMG-One on the famous racetrack in Germany.

Porsche has taken a performance prototype of a pre-series Taycan electric sports sedan to the Nürburgring racetrack in Germany, where it shaved a monstrous 26 seconds off the lap time of a previous visitor, a Taycan Turbo S Sport.

The new Mustang GTD is the "most advanced, audacious Mustang ever." The hellacious coupe gets a full carbon makeover, active aerodynamics, an adaptive street/track suspension, and a supercharged V8 powering the wheels via a carbon fiber driveshaft.

After breaking 23 production car records in a single day back in May, the Rimac Nevera has now taken on the fabled Nurburgring Nordschliefe track in Germany, and comes away as the fastest electric production car the 'ring has ever seen.

Mercedes-AMG lost its Nürburgring production car record in 2021 when the Porsche 911 GT2 RS came roaring back to top the list. But it still had an ace in the hole: the 1,049-hp One hypercar, which has shot past the Porsche for Nürburgring supremacy.

Tesla has recently been busy proving the chops of it Model S Plaid by sending a production version of it around the Nürburgring, and CEO Elon Musk today claims that these efforts have resulted in a new world record for the vehicle's class.

Earlier this year we saw Mercedes-AMG roll out its most powerful V8 ever, the GT Black Series, and the automaker has wasted little time in showing what it can do, having it round the Nürburgring Nordschleife faster than any production car before it.

A German driver has set a blistering new lap record for the Nurburgring Nordschliefe in a variable cab tractor. Without the use of racing slicks, Christian Menzel was able to slash the previous record – held by a Porsche – by more than half.

Porsche unleashes its 590-hp Taycan at Nürburgring and leaves fellow four-door EVs in its wake.

China’s Cyan Racing has taken to the tarmac of Nürburgring and come out the other side as the holder of two new records.

Jaguar's most extreme performance car ever has just stamped its authority on the Nurburgring – again – belting out a time a whopping seven seconds faster than any other four-door production car has managed. All hail the world's fastest family sedan.

​​​Volkswagen built its ID.R with the intention of showing what the heads in its electric drive division are capable of. The twin-motor electric racer has put in yet another momentous showing at Nürburgring-Nordschleife, where it has broken the lap record for electric vehicles by 40.564 seconds.​