Not just any Mercedes, either: it's the new GT R, the latest incarnation of the Mercedes-AMG GT, a rear-wheel-drive sports car with a 4-liter V8 producing 577 bhp. Drive Australia reports:
The most track focused road car from the German car maker has set a blistering time of 7:10.9 around the 21km Nurburgring track in Germany.
This is the fastest time ever set by a rear-wheel drive road car. The only road cars to post a quicker time are the Porsche 918 Spyder, Lamborghini Aventador Superveloce and Nissan GT-R Nismo.
The time was set by German automotive magazine Sport Auto.
There's more at the link.
Note the steadiness of the GT R. Even in the mid-200-kph range, it's like riding on rails. Watch the video in full-screen mode for best results.
I wouldn't mind one of those for the occasional fast run to Amarillo or Dallas-Fort Worth . . . but I'll have to sell a metric buttload of books to afford it!
Peter
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Why does that make me think of the old GB race plane? (Hardware so powerful and touchy you had to be absolutely expert to keep from killing yourself.)
A metric buttload... how much exactly does that weigh in imperial units? :-P
He only got into the 180s once... :-) Most of the time he was between 55 and 140 mph. :-D
Loved the crackle of the exhaust note at the beginning of the video, somebody did that part right, you just don't hear that anymore on newer cars.
I saw 305 KPH at one point towards the end. It did seem to stick to the road quite well.
Yes, I would imagine a metric assload of money would be required to get your hands on one.
For those who don't know how much that is, it is just slightly less than a shit ton.
Metrics, ya know.
Great ride - what was the Porsche that passed him? A 918R? Amazing how it kinda ran away from this really fast Mercedes!
It's about 2/3 of a $h!t-ton, which is around 7/8 of a metric $h!t-ton. ;-)
I would have said that the Porsche was most probably a 911 GT3.
While it is more race car than street car, even the latest incarnation (the 991 series) from 2013 has almost 100 HP LESS than claimed for that Mercedes - yet it vanished into the distance.
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