Nurburgring

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.​

In the mountains fringing Nagoya, just 30 minutes from its head office, Toyota is building a dynamic driving test center as part of a commitment to making its cars more fun to drive. Modeled on parts of the Nurburgring, one section of the new track is now up and running.

The newest Lamborghini, the Aventador SVJ, has yet to be released to the public. That hasn’t stopped Lambo from taking it to the Nurburgring and setting a Nordshleife lap record, though. The Aventador SVJ set a new production car lap record of 6:44.97 minutes while wearing stylish camouflage.

Not a full year after raising the bar on the production car Nürburgring record, Porsche put its 919 Hybrid Evo race car on the track and destroyed the three-decades-old all-time record (also set in a Porsche) by nearly a minute.

Toyota is building a miniature replica of the Nurburgring Nordschleife circuit in Japan in its quest to test its cars as comprehensively as possible. In total 11 racetracks will be built on a new 650-hectare site near Nagoya with total expenditure expected to be around $2.8 billion.​​

​​Jaguar has a fresh focus on making its mark on the performance car scene, with its most powerful production car ever, the XE SV Project 8, leading the charge. The four-door sedan has now gone around the Nürburgring Nordschleife in record time, making it the fastest production saloon in the world.​

The Alfa Romeo renaissance started with the Giulia, but given how popular mid-size SUVs are at the moment the new Stelvio is arguably more commercially important for the brand. The Stelvio has proven its performance chops with a new Nurburgring Nordschleife SUV lap record.

The GT2 RS is the fastest Porsche 911 ever. It's the alpha in a family full of predators, a reminder of what Weissach can do. As well as topping the pile at Porsche, the car has scaled the skyscraper of supercars chasing glory in Germany with a new production lap record at the Nurburgring.

Subaru has taken to the Nurburgring Nordschleife in a modded WRX STI, toppling the lap record for four-door sedans with the WRX STI Type RA NBR Special – and becoming the first four-door to dip below seven minutes in the process.​

The 986 hp McLaren P1 LM became the world's fastest production car around the Nürburgring Nordschleife last month. The extraordinary time is a significant automotive landmark for McLaren, the Lanzante team that executed the mission, and the the car that was used. Here's why.