Posts Tagged ‘speed track’

Nick Hogan sentenced to 8 months in jail

Friday, May 9th, 2008
Click above for gallery of photos released by Clearwater, Florida policeToday in Clearwater, Florida, a judge sentenced Nick Bollea, son of famous WWE wrestler Hulk Hogan, to eight months in jail for reckless driving. Last August Bollea crashed his father's yellow modified Toyota Supra into a palm ......

GT Academy competition to put GT5 Prologue player in real race

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
This is either the stupidest idea ever or the most brilliant co-promotion for two brands in the history of mankind. Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, the distributor of Gran Turismo 5 Prologue across the pond, and Nissan are joining forces to host a competition that could place a really good gamer......

Six cities busted for shortening yellow light

Monday, April 14th, 2008
Have you ever hit the throttle when a traffic light turns yellow, and then it turns red faster than you thought? We know it's happened to us, and for the most part we thought the problem was our bad timing. In six cities across these United States, missing a yellow light has less to do with bad timi......

AC Schnitzer GP3.10 LPG powered 3-series hits 318 km/h

Monday, September 10th, 2007
Click the image above for more shots of the GP3.10 hammering around Nardo.You might recall the AC Schnitzer crew trotting out a particularly gaudy BMW 3-series coupe in Frankfurt called the GP3.10, powered by a V10 engine pulled from the M5/M6 running off liquefied petroleum. While the styling of th......

DCX’s high-speed track to get a facelift

Wednesday, January 31st, 2007
The Chrysler proving ground from spaceChrysler has a 3,850 acre proving ground near Chelsea, Michigan that originally opened in 1952, and currently has about 95 miles of test roads. Sustained high-speed testing had, until recently, been conducted on a 4.71 mile oval track that could support neutral......

AC Schnitzer BMW breaks speed record

Wednesday, October 18th, 2006
OK, so it might not be World's Fastest Car or even World's Fastest Coupe, but the AC Schnitzer Tension just accomplished something pretty remarkable. It sped its way around the Southern Italian top speed track known as Nardo at a breathtaking 331.78 km/h. That, my friends, makes it the fastest BMW o......

Nissan’s high-speed test track complete

Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
In a build that began over two-decades ago, Nissan's Hokkaido Proving Grounds in Hokkaido, Japan, has finally reached completion. The testing course began life in 1986 and over the last 20 years has evolved from dirt tracks and one-lane macadam roads, to a 2.7 square-mile testing range that encompas......

Brabus builds world’s fastest sedan… again

Wednesday, May 24th, 2006
Last summer Brabus built an E-Class sedan powered by a biturbo V12 that captured the honor of being called the World's Fastest Sedan by reaching a velocity of 218 mph. Brabus has just broken its own record using the Brabus Rocket, which we first met in Frankfurt last year. The Rocket is based on the......