So get this. Some painfully wealthy individual not only had the cash to schedule time at the famed Nurburgring, but he also had enough coin left over to hire ALMS guru Marc Basseng to test his private fleet of supercars. You read that right: PRIVATE FLEET OF SUPERCARS! All the usual suspects were there, including [...]
Nissan Day is without end! Full Disclosure: SpeedSportLife’s Jack Baruth is not only a friend of mine, but was on my LeMons team last May. He’s a pretty good driver, too. Full Disclosure 2.0: Here at Autofiends we love nothing more than reporting on the latest Nurburgring “Lap Record.” Why just this very morning Zach put [...]
Oh snap! It took the French Japanese company a week or so, but they’ve produced the very tires that ran the miraculous ‘Ring lap time. After Porsche engineers went so far as to buy a GT-R in the US, fly it to Germany and then do their best to replicate the 7:29 lap time that [...]
Before Chevrolet, Cadillac, Nissan, Dodge and Acura all decided that their various products’ Nurburgring times were essential marketing tools, other makes ran their cars round der ’Ring just for the thrill of it. One such company is RUF, and as we just got done posting on their upcoming all electric car I figured some of you might [...]
Looks like Nissan is still tweaking on the special edition GT-R it plans on unveiling at the Paris Motor Show. A version wearing a bunch of Nismo goodies — including those bad ass Rays six-spokers and the in-house tuner’s titanium exhaust — has been buzzing ’round der ‘Ring. Could this be the fabled Spec V [...]
There’s not much to say here. Close the office door, turn up the volume and listen to the knee-wobbling siren song of Honda’s 5.5-liter, 600 horsepower V10. It’s like an F1 car got a serious shot of testosterone, abandoning the upper stratosphere of the tachometer for the low and dirty realms of the mortal world. [...]
As far as cars go, there are as many benchmarks for performance as there are standards by which to judge them. There’s the 0-60 run, the 0-100 dash, the 0-100-0 hurtle, quarter mile time, top speed, curb weight, power to weight ratio, horsepower, torque, sales numbers, cargo area — hell, even how many ways the [...]
It seems like everyone’s gunning for the ZR1’s spot at the top of the Nurburgring heap, including Audi. The company has let it slip that the new V10 variant of the R8 will set a lap time lower than the now legendary ZR1 once complete. Along with the new 535 horse 10-pot, the car is [...]
Chevrolet, makers of the Aveo sedan and 5-door hatch, can now lay claim to the production car Nurburgring Norschleife record. With pilot (and GM boffin) Jim Mero at the helm, the Blue Devil took flight and popped off a 7:26.4 second romp around the most famous stretch of public highway in the world. This is [...]
Nissan’s claiming this is a stock GT-R. Running the legendary Nurburgring Nordschleife in 7:29.03, just 1.5 seconds slower than a Pagani Zonda F’s nutso time of 7:27:82. Of course, one car sells for about $700,000 while the other costs $70,000. We don’t even think the Zonda F is on sale any more, which makes the [...]
