Rainer Zietlow and Derek Collins have spent the last 100 days in an all-electric ID.4 visiting more than 600 Volkswagen dealerships around the U.S. For their efforts, they’ve been rewarded with a Guinness World Record. Their prize was awarded to them upon returning to the Volkswagen USA headquarters in Herndon, Virginia, where they ended their […]
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Auto racing, especially at the professional level, can often feel like a marathon at times. However, Aston Martin Formula 1 software engineer George Crawford must have taken that to heart, as he completed the London Marathon in full race gear and set a new Guinness World Record in the process. While the marathon is a […]
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A BAC Mono R has set a new lap record for production vehicles at the Red Bull Ring in Austria. The single-seater track-day supercar, which is limited to just 30 units, managed an average speed of 122 mph (196 km/h) on its way to a lap time of 1:32.96. “Another event, another lap record for […]
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The Regera is Koenigsegg’s grand touring model, combining amazing performance from its 1,500 hp hybrid system with luxury and creature comforts allowing it to be daily driveable. Despite its position in the range, the Regera visited Ring Knutstorp last week, setting a new lap record with a time of 1.03.84, stealing the crown from the McLaren […]
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A Toyota Mirai has earned itself a Guinness World Record for the longest distance traveled by a hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicle without refueling. The car managed to travel 845 miles (1,360 km) on a loop of southern California in August. Guinness World Records adjudicator Michael Empric was on hand to validate that the Mirai’s […]
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The 2022 Acura NSX Type S has set the production car record at the Long Beach street circuit. Clocking a time of 1:32:784, it beat the previous best time by nearly three seconds, which coincidently, was set by a 2019 production-spec NSX. The NSX Type S in question was fittingly painted in “Long Beach Blue Pearl,” […]
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The first-ever Formula 1 Grand Prix will be held in Saudi Arabia in early December and as the country gears up for the event, it recently set out to build the largest Lego Formula 1 car at the sprawling Red Sea Mall in Jeddah. The promoter of the upcoming race, the Saudi Automobile & Motorcycle […]
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Britain’s White Motorcycle Concepts has completed the first trials of its upcoming WMC250EV, an electric motorcycle that is being specifically designed to take on land speed records and defy industry conventions. The bike, ridden by company founder Rob White at Bruntingthorpe Proving Ground, has completed its comprehensive full system pass off and, from here, the […]
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Few supercars and even less that are at a reasonable price point will be more exciting than the 2023 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 and its engine is shaping up to be something quite extraordinary. Powering the car will be a 5.5-liter naturally-aspirated V8 with a flat-plane crank, derived from the engine of the C8.R race car. […]
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DPD Switzerland, Continental Tires, and Futuricum last week announced that they had earned the Guinness World Record for the longest distance covered by an electric truck without recharging. The truck, a modified Volvo unit, traveled 1,099 km (682.8 miles). The vehicle completed the distance at Continental‘s 2.8 km (1.7 miles) long test track near Hanover, […]
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