Nissan said it wasn’t done with the GT-R and Germany’s mighty Nurburgring Nordschliefe, and it wasn’t kidding. After setting a blistering 7 minute 29 second best lap in a bog-standard R35 GT-R a year ago, Nissan has managed to raise the bar once more; this time logging a best lap of 7:27.56.

The car used was [...]

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Reports are trickling in that Chevrolet’s latest and greatest performance flagship, the Corvette ZR-1, has reset its own lap record on that most legendary of automotive yardsticks, the Nurburgring Nordschliefe.

Way back in June, the ZR-1 under the pilotage of GM engineer Jim Mero managed to blitz the full 21 kilometre northern loop in a stunningly-quick [...]

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What is it about bragging rights that strikes deep into the psyche? And right now, for production sports cars there’s no bragging right hotter than the Nürburgring Nordschleife production car lap record. You can make a ‘bazillion’ kilowatts, but more has been said about the Dodge Viper ACR, Chevrolet Corvette ZR-1, Porsche 911 Turbo and [...]

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Just as we begin to deal with Nissan’s new GT-R sweeping all before it and establishing a new set of performance and value benchmarks for the Supercar genre comes the news that a Lexus LF-A mule has broken through the current production car lap record at the Nurburgring. Auto Express reports that Lexus insiders have [...]

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There is a new Top Gear test track champion, unofficially at least, with the Caparo T1 road registerable completely insane race car breaking through the fastest time by an astonishing seven seconds to post a 1 min 10.6 second lap. The previous record is held by the Koenigsegg CCX.

The Caparo weighs less than a Formula [...]

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Lord of the Ring

Another photo and more rumour concerning the upcoming 2008 Skyline GTR. The BIG whisper is that the new GTR is getting set to break some Nurburgring lap records. How does 7 minutes and 15 seconds sound! That’s damn quick…

It’s starting to look like the 2008 GTR will be able to fill the [...]

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