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