Deep Singh

What are the fastest cars around the ring? Preferably non modified?

TEXAS PETE

Radical. Is..was? the fastest

TEXAS PETE

Just remembered some German car beat it, not sure what its called.. (I’m only talking road cars)

Dutch Scooby lover

iTrader: (3)

Donkervoort driver by the German importer, it beat the Porsche Carrera GT by 12 seconds i think

Halfway down the page:

http://www.modernracer.com/autonews/autonews2.html

Deep Singh

ok, can I change the question a bit because I've never heard of a Donkervoort!

Out of main stream ie Porsche/Ferrari/ TVR/Noble/Radical/Westfield/Any Jap stuff/Audi/BMW and has to be road legal and under £100ishk whats the fastest?

Cheers

hades

The Donkervoort is not really much different to a Westfield/Radical type thing, and I'd guess is actually cheaper than a lot of the main stream Porsche/Ferrari stuff.

I believe the fastest sub £100k car from any of any of the makes you list is the Radical (SR3 Turbo from memory), but it really does depend on where you draw lines. There have been a few times on here long lists of lap times acheived by various cars of all sorts.

AlanPPP

iTrader: (2)

Don't know about standard but i have a cracking vid of an M3 going around passing Porsche turbo's like there standing still!

New_scooby_04

iTrader: (4)

If we apply the top gear test of a road car i.e. can it negotiate a speed bump wouldn't that exlude the Radical etc.... Has anyone taken the supercharged Ariel Atom around it?

NS04

SwishOvBolton

NOBLE you cannot beat one ofthem beasts for the price of 30 g to 60 g and look the dogs nuts ,,,, 0-60 3.8 or something similar , and supoosed to handle like a dream

hades

It might, but I was specifically answering the post above which specified a list of makes and a price limit. Some people wouldn't count Ariel Atoms on the basis of no bodywork. As I said, it really does depend on where you draw lines.

Swish - whilst I really do like the Nobles, they are significantly slower on a track than a radical or similar.

Deep Singh

ok,sorry to keep changing the goal posts. Exclude Radicals/Ariel. Though road legal, nobody would drive a Radical to work? Include Nobles etc. Also must be factory standard but factory specials included ie M3 CSL, GT3 RS etc etc

RB5DOCC

Heard somewhere that the Nissan Skyline holds the record for the fastest production car, under 8 minutes i think.

SwishOvBolton

ok, can I change the question a bit because I've never heard of a Donkervoort!

Out of main stream ie Porsche/Ferrari/ TVR/Noble/Radical/Westfield/Any Jap stuff/Audi/BMW and has to be road legal and under £100ishk whats the fastest?

Cheers


dont think you left much to choice left there but i know id be going for an fq400 ,

but if you want class and style and none of them up there audi rs6 , sure its an rs6 there supoossed quick

Lotus Exige the New one thats coming out , 0-60 , 3.8 and under 100k i think it `s 40k and round a track that must be Fookin Quick , as bein a lotus


if i had 100k to play with it would be aston martin , and id have to test drive a dodge viper but the petrol consumption on one of them must be lethal , iit would need a bank loaneverytime you turned the key

sulli

A big power Skyline has to be quick round there - and you can take the kids to school in it too

Deep Singh

Skyline record has been bettered many times has'nt it

hades

I think the RS6 as mentioned above still holds the record for the fastest production estate around there.

As i said, a long list of lap times has been posted on here in previous threads. http://bbs.scoobynet.co.uk/showthrea...ht=nurburgring is a start, didn't take long with search tool

Based on that, lightweight / special versions of 996 type Porker's appear to be well up there, with times in the 7:40's

Paul_M

Don't think a standard skyline would be anywhere near the top of the list, they're 286 BHP (OK maybe closer to 350 in reality) but pretty lardy.

Deep Singh

Thanks for the link,thats the sort of info I was after. Obviously driver dependant, but very useful. Cheers matey!

Brother_Will

As you can see the donkervoort was road leagal, although its a moot point now.

Dear Mr. Odriscoll ,

Thanks for your mail . The Nurburgring record we broke goes for homologated
production cars in Germany , not for race cars ! So the road car we used was
street legal.
I hope this answers your question .

Best regards joop donkervoort

craigdmcd

iTrader: (2)

I think you'll find that the Radical SR3 Turbo was given one lap to try it in, and had completely the wrong gearing, severly hampering it's time(If I remember correctly it was sitting on the limiter at approx 165mph on many occasions), but the authorities were unwilling to let it have any more runs with more suitable settings, a little unfair I believe.

Edcase

You need something that corners fast....