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2015 Civic Type R destroys Nurburgring lap record

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"Ready to have your preconceptions about front-wheel-drive blown right out of your skull?

Honda just released video of a 2015 Civic Type R prototype lapping the Nurburgring in 7:50.63.

That's just 10 seconds off the pace of the Porsche Cayman GT4, and only 30 seconds behind the world-beating 911 GT3 that won our Performance Car of the Year competition."

It also soundly trounces the old front-wheel-drive record, a 7:54.36 set by the Renault Megane RS 275 Trophy-R".

http://www.roadandtrack.com/new-car...type-r-destroys-fwd-nurburgring-world-record/

[video=youtube;1lXGmjt1FtQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lXGmjt1FtQ#t=216[/video]
 


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Wow impressive! I really hope Honda decides to give us this motor in something cool. Not just an Acura MDX Type-S, or something less then amusing.
 


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Soundly!!!!! .... by 4 seconds....

I love marketing :) If 4 seconds is SOUNDLY beating something, then why are they also saying its within 10 seconds of one car and "only" 30 seconds behind another? HAHA! Doesn't that just mean it got absolutely slaughtered by a lot of other cars? [rofl]
 


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The 911 GT3 RS is 5seconds faster than a GT3. So 4 seconds is... Nothing. But... I give them prob !!! Cool little car
 


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We are going to get the type R.... The civic type ""R" U going to the mall to door ding AMG benz's ?".
 


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is there an official time for the fiST?

sub 8's at the ring is really impressive. cup 2 tires or some sort of semi-slick probably?

ring times should be taken with a grain of salt but it's nice to see the potential.
 


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The camaro Z28 video on the ring is crazy !! Its like they really are trying to find the craziest driver, not fastest car, lol
 


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From Top Gear: Ring times are garbage

Vijay Pattni28 November 2013

Ford: N?rburgring times are rubbish

Performance chief details why N?rburgring times aren?t useful. James May was right



The chief engineer of Ford's Global Performance Vehicles has agreed with James May and ruined a million pub conversations: N?rburgring lap times are rubbish.

Jamal Hameedi, responding to*Ford*enthusiast forumSVTperformance.com*asking why he hasn't sent the Mustang GT500 around the ?Ring on a timed run, reckons that there is no such thing as an official manufacturer time.

"Ring times? Oh man, don't even get me started on this topic," says Hameedi. "These times being posted by many manufacturers are, in my humble opinion, akin to qualifying times being set at a race with no pre/post inspection. In order for us to set an official time, corner weights would have to be taken, calibrations check sums need to be verified, engine power verified, a hoist inspection, and probably a fuel sample taken by an independent third party..."

In other words, it's a free-for-all. However, Hameedi concedes the Green Hell serves an important function for testing vehicles. "The reason we test at the Ring is because it is a fantastic venue for doing vehicle dynamics work," he says. "You get so much different content in terms of turns, elevation, etc that you would need to visit five different tracks to duplicate it."

It's just the lap times with which Ford has a problem. "Our (my) view is that there is no such thing as an official manufacturer 'Ring time. As soon as there is a standard for measuring lap times, our performance vehicles will be the first in line to get tested."

Hameedi reckons the comparisons between different performance cars "need to be done on the same day by a professional driver, too." Hmm, if only there were such a facility, where a single racing driver whose breath smells of magnesium could test the world's fastest cars around a top secret and slightly shoddy little circuit just off the A281 in Surrey...

Hameedi says until there's a more effective, standardised measurement, Ford won't be sending its cars around the ?Ring on timed runs. Remember what our very own Captain Slow said many moons ago? "Being able to claim that your daily driver holds a production car lap record somewhere in Germany is a good boast down the pub for the feeble minded...but it's all nonsense."
 


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Maybe someone should start an official ring time for car manufactures. I see a nice business opportunity here. Who is with me?
 


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From Top Gear: Ring times are garbage

Vijay Pattni28 November 2013

Ford: N?rburgring times are rubbish

Performance chief details why N?rburgring times aren?t useful. James May was right



The chief engineer of Ford's Global Performance Vehicles has agreed with James May and ruined a million pub conversations: N?rburgring lap times are rubbish.

Jamal Hameedi, responding to*Ford*enthusiast forumSVTperformance.com*asking why he hasn't sent the Mustang GT500 around the ?Ring on a timed run, reckons that there is no such thing as an official manufacturer time.

"Ring times? Oh man, don't even get me started on this topic," says Hameedi. "These times being posted by many manufacturers are, in my humble opinion, akin to qualifying times being set at a race with no pre/post inspection. In order for us to set an official time, corner weights would have to be taken, calibrations check sums need to be verified, engine power verified, a hoist inspection, and probably a fuel sample taken by an independent third party..."

In other words, it's a free-for-all. However, Hameedi concedes the Green Hell serves an important function for testing vehicles. "The reason we test at the Ring is because it is a fantastic venue for doing vehicle dynamics work," he says. "You get so much different content in terms of turns, elevation, etc that you would need to visit five different tracks to duplicate it."

It's just the lap times with which Ford has a problem. "Our (my) view is that there is no such thing as an official manufacturer 'Ring time. As soon as there is a standard for measuring lap times, our performance vehicles will be the first in line to get tested."

Hameedi reckons the comparisons between different performance cars "need to be done on the same day by a professional driver, too." Hmm, if only there were such a facility, where a single racing driver whose breath smells of magnesium could test the world's fastest cars around a top secret and slightly shoddy little circuit just off the A281 in Surrey...

Hameedi says until there's a more effective, standardised measurement, Ford won't be sending its cars around the ?Ring on timed runs. Remember what our very own Captain Slow said many moons ago? "Being able to claim that your daily driver holds a production car lap record somewhere in Germany is a good boast down the pub for the feeble minded...but it's all nonsense."
And yet they've already done it with the Mustang 2016 GT350-R (The R is a stripped out version of the GT350 with the 5.2l Flat Plane Crank engine) and set a lap time of 7:32. Ring times sell cars in the same way Nascar drivers sell cars for manufacturers simply because of the body their favorite driver promotes.
 


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