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http://www.speedhunters.com/2013/09/...w-ring-record/

the new porsche 918 has set the lap record for production cars at 6:57

dvandentop

insane car for sure maybe if i can win the lottery

froggy47

Just saw that, wow. Anyone have a link to the whole lap?

YYZ06

That car sounds sweet! It was kind of hard to see the spedo but I saw 300+ KPH once and 280+ a bunch of times. Not bad for a drive in the woods.

5280Racer

its incredible how it floats on the long straight!

Werks

In this specific case the first thing that comes to mind is really who cares. What person in their right mind is going to take their $845,000 car and try to drive it at anywhere close to that pace on any road or track? The car has great performance but at the price that you have to pay for one, it will never be used for what it was intended for.

WICKEDFRC

Bragging rights is what it's all about.....

And, I just stumbled across an auto highlight about two or three days ago featuring the 918. Looked like a costly beast. Who would have thought a few days later the 918 would set a new record on the 'Ring.

What person in their right mind would take their $845,000 car and drive it at that pace on any road or track? The guy who has the pockets deep enough to buy one for each of his friends and family for the next 100 generations.

Unfortunately.....that isn't me.

Still a sick ride!!

taken19

If I had $845,000 burning a hole in my pocket, I'd buy one and drive the **** out of it trying to match that time, lol!

In all honesty, It's amazing to see what technology runs around that track. 6:57 is sick!!!

JRL

Funny how they don't mention which car held the old record

http://www.trackhq.com/forums/f348/p...p-record-6549/

Werks

If I had $845k burning a hole in my pocket I'd spend a couple hundred K and buy a race car and go faster. I'd take the other 600 or so K and buy another house. The problem with dual purpose track/street car is that they usually are not good at either job. 6:57 is without a doubt blazing fast, but again at $845k it is an absolutely absurd amount of money to spend for bragging rights about lap times on a race track. To me once you get outside of a couple hundred k it's all a mute point because no one (that I know at least lol) can afford these cars anyway. So imho it's no more impressive than reading that a 2010 model year F1 car did a 6:36 on the ring. Heck I don't know what the market is like for a couple year old used F1 car's but in this case it might even be cheaper to go that route lol

Olitho

I am in the IT service business. I have a very wealthy client worth a lot more than $1B. He has a personal allowance of $250,000,000 per year, more than $60,000,000 per quarter or in other words, more than $20,000,000 per month. That is more than one million dollars per business day in personal spending.

I always have to do that math because it helps me fathom the volume of his personal spending.

It is guys like him who buy cars like this in different colors because having several jets, helicopters and more than a dozen homes is not enough. Even with all that there is money left over to spend.

Shaka

Yeah, but you got to remember, a $billion is not what it used to be.

VicCaerter

didn't that car have over $100k worth of options on it making it almost a 7 figure car?

Z06_BluByU

a 5 year old Viper ACR....

rustyguns

I would

crimlwC6

What I thought was really interesting was that the driver very rarely counter steered and got on the power very early in the turns. I like my car a lot and it cost 10k!

heavychevy

Because it's AWD, placid and boring at the limit. GT-R esque.

Notch

I'm sure anyone driving the 918 at the limit on the Ring while turning a 6:57 lap time would be totally bored...

ScaryFast

The best part is that in 6:57 his latte wouldn't have time to get cold.

Notch

I'm thinking he had a cold Spaten when he finished.