Honda has wrapped up its quest to dominate front-wheel drive lap records around the globe after its new Civic Type R set a blistering new time at the Hungarian ‘Hungaroring’ GP circuit. The latest record was set by former F1 world champion and current Super GT race driver Jenson Button, […]
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BMW M2 Competition breaks 1-minute balloon-popping record (video)
What do you get when you stick a high-powered laser onto the new BMW M2 Competition and line it up against a bunch of balloons? The potential to break a rather strange world record. What else? BMW released a teaser video a few weeks ago showing an M2 drifting in […]
Lamborghini Aventador SVJ breaks Nurburgring lap record (video)
Lamborghini has done it. As suspected, the upcoming Lamborghini Aventador SVJ has broken the production car lap record around the Nurburgring. It set a blistering time of 6:44.97, squashing the previous record set by the Porsche 911 GT2 RS by a few seconds. Late last year Porsche set a blistering […]
Porsche 911 GT2 RS sets pace at The Bend Motorsport Park (video)
A lap record around South Australia’s new racing circuit, The Bend Motorsport Park, has already been laid down by none other than the new Porsche 911 GT2 RS. The 911 GT2 RS has already proved its credibility by setting the lap record around the Nurburgring for a production car. Now, […]
Range Rover Sport SVR sets world record two-wheel run at Goodwood (video)
Land Rover has set a new Guinness World Record for the quickest mile in car on two wheels. The record was set at the Goodwood Festival of Speed over the weekend with a Ranger Rover Sport SVR. With stunt driver Terry Grant behind the wheel, the Range Rover sprinted nervously […]
BMW M2 Competition is about to set some kind of world record (video)
What is BMW up to here? It looks like there could be a new world record about to be set, as BMW M releases this teaser video showing a BMW M2 preparing for some kind of record. Not much is revealed in the video. All we find out is there […]
Volkswagen Golf Mk2 sets DSG AWD world record 1/4 mile (video)
What’s the quickest Volkswagen DSG-equipped AWD car in the world? You might not have expected it to be a Mk2 Golf, but this is it, apparently. It has just run the quarter mile in an astonishing 8.769 seconds. Obviously this isn’t a standard Mk2 Golf. For starters, it uses a […]
Honda Civic Type R sets FWD lap record at Silverstone, more records to tumble
Honda is on a lap record rampage at the moment, using its new Civic Type R to reset the lap records at various world-famous circuits around the globe. The latest is Silverstone, where the hot hatch clocked a lap in just 2:31.32. This is the new front-wheel drive production car […]