During testing this week at the Nürburgring Nordschleife, the supercharged 638-horsepower Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 turned a lap of 7:26.4, quicker than the 7:29 set on April 16-17 by the Nissan GT-R, which is believed to be the lap record for a mass-produced sports car. Tadge Juechter, Corvette Chief Engineer, says, "The vehicle is exactly like the cars that will be built in Bowling Green, Kentucky, and sold around the world later this summer."

Whoa! Get out your wallets...

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I loved this line:

What this means to you: That sound you hear is the Nissan engineers loading a GT-R into a truck and heading for the Nürburgring.

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Hats of to GM, they do great marketing

Wow, so they're going to have the fastest car to go around the Nürburgring and the fastest sedan in the world (CTS-V)? Good times for GM, they are.

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ZR1 7:26
Viper 8:10

Looks like they make a car that does the ring pretty fast too

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What is the "asking" price on that ride though?

Here is the most important part if you ask me

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Just as with the recent Nürburgring attempt with the 2009 Cadillac CTS-V, the GM development team made some efforts to ensure the car remained scrupulously stock. Though it featured a bar to locate a seatbelt harness, there was no roll cage to reinforce chassis rigidity. The ride height and chassis alignment were stock, the emissions gear met EPA standards and there was pump gas in the tank. The Michelin Pilot Sport 2 tires have been developed for production, although they did carry a relatively soft tread-wear rating of 220.

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$100,000

1/2 to 1/4 of the price of many cars which are let's just say, a bit further down the list


btw- a stock C6 Z06 did it in 7:42.
the first ferrari on the list, a 430.... 7:55.


here's the new list:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordsch...test_lap_times

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...not less then the GT-R though...at least not in MSRP form.

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"promote the general welfare, not provide the general welfare"

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

I don't understand what you mean.

Regardless, the GT-R V's time was measured by "bystanders at the track", so there is no official time for it yet. I'ld be very interested to see what a stock GT-R V can do officially.
The GT-R time that is official is 7:29, there's no notation as to whether it was stock or not.

It would be cool to see a ZR-1, a Viper and a GTR-V actually RACE the ring.... 1 can only dream.

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