Whilst being road legal in the UK, the 340R represents the quintessential driver's machine, equipped with everything you need to go
fast around a racetrack while devoid of virtually every modern - day creature comfort, including a top, a luggage compartment, doors, side windows and a stereo.
We were limited to just two
laps around a racetrack in a TT RS, but it didn't take much time to realize that we were driving something special.
Would you conclude that screeching
around racetracks at 180 mph is a good way for people to prolong their lives?
That doesn't for a second mean it's missed the mark — after all, a convertible with four real seats and all - wheel drive probably wouldn't be someone's first choice to
fling around a racetrack anyway.
This may come as a surprise to you, but you can actually live out your fantasy of speeding
around a racetrack in some of the fastest cars in the world.
That's to say, a car that could cross a continent in comfort and then
tear around a racetrack as fast as anything else.
Perhaps this car isn't about outright speed and sporting performance — there are smaller, nimbler cars that will probably
get around a racetrack faster and for less money to boot — but everything about the CLS 63 AMG conspires to make me feel confident in both my abilities as a driver and the vehicle's ability to effortlessly deliver what I ask of it.
That also applies to the racetrack:
Walk around a racetrack and you can say, «This is the most important part of the track.
Whittingham says he is the most perfect horse he has seen in his 40
years around the racetrack, and nearly every horseman in Argentina believes that Forli is the most wonderful horse that ever lived.
The machine sent
electrons around the racetrack three times (known as «3 - pass» beam), resulting in 6.11 GeV electrons at 2 nanoAmps average current for more than an hour.
It also doesn't sit terribly high, so it doesn't feel like you're trying to flog a
barn around a racetrack — it feels properly fun - sized.
In fact, hurling it into corners is the only way to make time, which is why it's such a hoot to
flog around a racetrack.
AMG chief Tobias Moers told the press conference crowd his favorite feature is the car's «drift mode,» demonstrated with a video showing the family sedan gone - wild making a perfectly insane
drift around a racetrack.
Eric Tingwall found great delight in chucking an XKR -
S around a racetrack, but my short time behind the wheel of this uber - Jag was spent in the Detroit suburbs and a brief jaunt on the highways back to Ann Arbor.
Signs of Beijing's burgeoning car trade, especially its more recent embrace of sports cars, are everywhere, including a Ferrari / Maserati dealership and a Porsche store
clustered around a racetrack near the airport.
The verdict: The new 2017 Bentley Bentayga is a multitalented ultraluxury SUV that's just as at ease tiptoeing down steep off - road descents as it is
hustling around a racetrack, all the while coddling passengers in its richly appointed cabin.
And given Audi's push towards self - driving technology, including that time we raced an autonomous
RS7 around a racetrack and won, we woudn't be surprised if we see a degree of autonomy in the new RS7.
Instead of trying to beat the
Bavarians around a racetrack, Lexus has gone its own way with a playful alternate to the über - sports - coup...
The claim is outrageous even by the standards of the SEMA show: Toyota says a specially tuned Sienna minivan can beat a Camaro
SS around a racetrack.
The driver ergonomics bridge the gap to motor racing, and with optimum weight distribution and a low centre of gravity the overall package ensures that a lap
around racetracks such as the north loop of the Nürburgring is a unique driving experience.
If you're an enthusiast who measures a car by how well it
romps around a racetrack, you may agree that those «X» stickers are warranted with a Nürburgring lap time of 7:16.04.
There, for a few quarters, you could see rats riding
cats around racetracks, dancing elephants, boxing kangaroos, juggling sea lions and monkeys displaying an array of talents.
Instead, players had to pop each other's balloons while
wandering around the racetracks, hoping that they could manage to even find one of the other players.
Just imagine the difference between the requirements of driving of your car around town at 30 miles (50klms) an hour and
around a racetrack at 180 miles (300klms!)
Watching the speed at which the Porsche 918 Spyder makes its
way around the racetrack, it's not hard to believe the car's amazing 6 minute, 57 second lap around the Nürburgring.
The Stelvio Quadrifoglio may be the first «performance SUV» I've ever actually enjoyed
flinging around a racetrack, and I've tried several different ones now.
It's almost de rigueur for supercars to have giant wings on the back that flop about, articulating wildly like peacocks strutting their stuff as their owners flog the
cars around the racetrack.
Ford says that the original F - 150 SVT Raptor was designed to demonstrate that off - roading can be even more fun than going
fast around a racetrack.
I've raced in the now - defunct Viper Challenge series, and driven plenty of the old ACRs — they ceased production in 2010 — but my cut - parry - thrust ride with Winkler was the fastest I have ever been
around a racetrack in a street - legal production car.
Just imagine the difference between the requirements of driving of your car around town at 30 miles an hour and
around a racetrack at 180 miles an hour.
If a plastic rabbit can entice a greyhound to do laps
around a racetrack, can public service incentives lure promising new teachers to low - performing urban schools?
The biggest advantage the Golf R has over the GTI is its all - wheel drive, which reduces the torque steer the GTI battles and makes it easier for the Golf R to be driven faster through twisty canyons or
around racetracks — and presumably gives it an edge in wintry conditions.
The two powertrains and the huge battery are ample explanation for the heft - yet no matterwhat the scales say, the Karma flings
itself around a racetrack with more composure than the class leader in the handling department, the Jaguar XJ.
Mountune includes a strut - tower brace and Ford Performance lowering springs, but the standard Focus ST is already so stiff that it's tough to quantify any gains outside of slinging
it around a racetrack.
Although the Genesis's pedals are spaced a little too far apart for easy heel - and - toeing, the Brembos give fantastic brake feel, and when we took the Genesis for hot laps
around a racetrack, they refused to fade.
The ride and handling made me want to drive the car all the way to Nebraska, but I wouldn't want to take
it around a racetrack.