Germany’s Sport Auto has sent the Ford Mustang Mach 1 around the fearsome Nurburgring with its test driver Christian Gebhardt at the wheel. He managed a time of 7:58.29. The time will by no means threaten any lap records but does put the $53,400 car in decent company, per Wikipedia‘s list of lap times. The […]
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The forthcoming 2022 Honda Civic Type R has been filmed being pushed to its limits at the Nurburgring and looks very, very quick. The new Civic Type R promises to be a significant improvement over the outgoing model, a car that has already established itself as the king of front-wheel-drive hot hatches. Honda’s eleventh-generation Civic […]
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No technology has done more to shape racing cars and high performance road cars like the adoption of downforce-producing aerodynamic aids. From the mid-late 1960s onwards, wings of one kind or another became pretty much an essential requirement for motorsport success and changed our perception of how a competition car looks so radically that when […]
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The ultimate version of the current generation 718 Cayman, the GT4 RS, is expected to debut in November and Porsche released an onboard video of the sportscar lapping the Nürburgring-Nordschleife. With a lap time of 7:04.511 for the 20.6 km track (7:09.300 for the full 20.832 km), the GT4 RS is 23.6 seconds faster than the […]
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Crashes at the Nurburgring during public sessions are all too common. The sheer scale of the 12.9-mile track and the fact that many of the corners look deceptively similar means it takes quite some time to really learn it. But if are going to stack your car at the Nurburgring, you probably want to be […]
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<!––> <!––> The Nurburgring is one of the most torturous race tracks on earth and the owner of a brand new Ram 1500 TRX recently decided it would be a good idea to try and complete a full lap of the track with the pickup. In a straight line, no other pickup truck can keep […]
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The 2023 Honda Civic Type R has been snapped and filmed testing for the very first time at the Nurburgring. The Japanese automaker has ramped up development of the hot hatch in recent weeks and this prototype, complete with a bright red camouflage wrap, is the same one our spy photographers snapped a couple of […]
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BMW is continuing to test the long-awaited M3 Touring at the Nurburgring and recently headed to the German circuit at dusk for some hot laps. This particular M3 Touring prototype has been spied on several occasions in recent months and at one stage, was being pushed so hard that its front brake discs were glowing […]
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A man has died and seven other people were injured, two seriously, in a tragic accident at Germany’s Nürburgring circuit on Monday. The accident happened on the old 12.9-mile Nordschleife track during one of the regular touristenfahrten days where members of the public can pay €25 ($29) to drive their own cars. Local media outlets […]
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The Green Hell is the go-to destination for almost all performance-oriented models – either for their development or for setting lap time records, as Tesla did recently with their Model S Plaid sedan. However, nooooone would expect a Nürburgring-badged Toyota Corolla Sedan. Believe it or not, Toyota has presented a special “Nürburgring” package for the compact sedan […]
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