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 grinderman
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| posted on March 6th, 2014 at 07:22 PM |
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Record for front wheel drive at the 'ring'
Dont know if anyone is interested but the Seat Leon Cupra (basically a stripped down golf gti with 276 hp and a factory roll cage) has set a record
for a lap around the infamous nurburgring circuit in under 8 minutes. The car is stock standard and has claimed a few scalps along the way beating
some very fancy machinery including the last dodge viper, aston martin dbs and the cadillac cts/v.
I'm sure some inferdels will continue to explain to me that front wheel drives handle like shit but I guess the numbers dont lie so while most cars
are drifting in a smoke filled frenzy this hot hatch has already been and gone!
Even better you can drive it to the track and theres no room for the kids..............sounds good to me
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| posted on March 7th, 2014 at 10:23 AM |
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fwd in shortwheel base for the way 
(ô_!_/ô) (ô_!_/ô)
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| posted on March 7th, 2014 at 02:50 PM |
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Thats is cool,i love reading stuff like this..any links to the car...
a couple of months back i stumbled accross a well driven stock crx at the same citcuit,and it was a great vid to watch,the dude could drive and he did
a respectable time even when he got held up by two bike riders at the end,he fc hucked a spaz at em which i would of to,lol...ill try find it
Thanks
Fabo
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| posted on March 7th, 2014 at 03:53 PM |
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FWD nowadays can be really good, I recently drove the Renault Clio RS around the ring myself. It was awesome.
To my knowledge that was the fastest thing around there (not that I got anywhere near that), unless the Leon is a very recent thing?
[size=4] '59 or Kombi?....feeling confused [/size]
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Boozo
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| posted on March 7th, 2014 at 03:54 PM |
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I also discovered (and kinda knew anyway) that VW don't do any testing or anything there.....Just not interested apparently. So good to see that SEAT
are getting out there.
[size=4] '59 or Kombi?....feeling confused [/size]
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grinderman
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| posted on March 7th, 2014 at 07:01 PM |
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Yeah Boozo, I think it was only a week ago. The renault held the record since 2011 but the Seat bet it by 10 seconds.
Apparantly the upcoming honda civic type r has also come in under 8 minutes so it will be interesting.
The new honda has 280 horsepower (they finally gave in an fitted a turbo to give them some real grunt) so it would be very close.
The new euro spec mk7 golf r has 300 horses but would be a fair bit heavier with its all wheel drive.
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