Skip to main content

VW Makes More than Half of the World’s Quickest Cars

Road & Track recently released a list of all the cars it has ever tested that can accelerate to 60 mph in less than three seconds and 60% of them are made by the Volkswagen Group.

The car industry today may be full of ludicrously fast cars that would put race cars from just a few years ago to shame, but there are two performance figures that still set a car out as truly fast. The first is a sub-seven minute lap at the Nurburgring and the second is a sub-three second 0-60 sprint.

A lot of cars are fast. Only 19 have hit highway speeds in two seconds in Road & Track testing.

The list of cars would be familiar to anyone in Dubai and contains no shortage of super- and hyper-cars (with the exception of the M5, which, respect where it’s due, punches well above its weight). All the usual suspects are here: Ferrari, Lamborghini, Porsche, McLaren, etc. But as you go down the list, you can’t help but notice the developing trend.

If empires are all obsessed with power, the Volkswagen Group is an empire in the classical sense, making 11 of the 19 quickest cars on the road today. They are:

Lamborghini Huracan Performante, 2.4 s

Bugatti Veyron Super Sport, 2.5 s

Porsche 911 Turbo S (991.2), 2.5 s

Porsche 918 Spyder, 2.5 s

Bugatti Veyron, 2.6 s

911 Turbo S (991.1), 2.6

Lamborghini Aventador, 2.7 s

Audi R8 V10 Plus, 2.8 s

Lamborghini Huracan LP610-4, 2.8 s

Porsche 911 Turbo S (997.2), 2.8 s

Porsche GT3 RS (991.2), 2.9 s

Sure, the 911 Turbo S is over-represented on this list, but Porsche only knows how to improve incrementally, so that’s to be expected.

The rest of the list is equally impressive:

LaFerrari, 2.4 s

McLaren 720 S, 2.7 s

McLaren 650 S, 2.7 s

BMW M5, 2.8 s

McLaren 570 S, 2.8 s

Nissan GT-R NISMO, 2.8 s

Ferrari F12 Berlinetta, 2.9 s

Nissan GT-R, 2.9 s

While the list only covers what R&T has driven and measured (so things like the Chiron and the Koenigsegg might be missing) it’s still impressive just how committed VW is committed to speed.

The post VW Makes More than Half of the World’s Quickest Cars appeared first on VWVortex.



from VWVortex https://ift.tt/2IIYBMK
via IFTTT
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Waterfest Moves to Atco Dragway

Waterfest 24 will be held at Atco Dragway, in Atco, New Jersey. The summer event will take place at its new venue on July 21 and 22. Long held in Englishtown, New Jersey, the festival has been such a large part of the VW scene that the latest iteration of the Golf even comes with optional “Englishtown” wheels . The new venue, however, is an NHRA drag track a scant 52 miles southwest of Englishtown. The ¼ mile drag track opened in 1960, which makes it the oldest drag strip in New Jersey. The announcement came today on a social media post that announced the new location. Waterfest is North America’s largest VW/Audi show. As many 20,000 people show up for the annual show, making the second largest show in the world—with Worthersee being number one. 2018 will be Waterfest’s 24 th year in existence. The post Waterfest Moves to Atco Dragway appeared first on VWVortex . from VWVortex http://ift.tt/2GQjkuc via IFTTT
Post a Comment
Read more

Macau Gets Messy with 16-Car Pileup

The Macau Grand Prix is always good for an accident or two or 16— you may remember Audi’s race ending crash last year —and this year’s event didn’t disappoint. It didn’t take long for things to get messy on the tight road circuit. On the opening lap of the qualifying race a 16-car pileup caused the race to be suspended. Things kicked off when Daniel Juncadella hit a wall on the exit of Police bend, one of the tightest parts of the already tight circuit. The following car of Raffaele Marciello was able to avoid the carnage, but Laurens Vanthoor, who was in the upside-down Audi that ended the race last year, could not avoid Juncadella and together they blocked up the road pretty much completely. “I couldn’t see him [Juncadella] at first. Then I saw the car standing still,” Vanthoor told Motorsport. “I tried to brake but it was just understeering and I couldn’t do anything. There’s room for one car there and you’re blind.” Fourteen more cars would eventually crash into the corner c
Post a Comment
Read more

The First of its Kind: Integrated Engineering Releases Highly-Anticipated IE450T MK6 Golf R Turbo Kit

After two long years of development, the team at Integrated Engineering has finally announced the release of their IE450T kit for the MK6 Golf R. With their turbo kit bolted on right out of the box, the sport AWD hatch is transformed into a 450bhp monster, with hardly any noticeable increase in spool time. In fact, 435 ft-lbs of torque are achieved at all four wheels, at a mere 3300rpm! By now you are probably asking yourself how this is even possible on a 2.0L engine that made nearly half that power from the factory. By employing true twin-scroll technology into the cast turbo manifold and pairing it with a state-of-the-art BorgWarner EFR turbocharger, IE was able to keep spool time at a minimum and bring the fastest-spooling big turbo setup to the market. “We wanted to offer a kit that would dramatically increase the power output without making the car lose its amazing street-friendly drivability,” mentioned one of the IE engineers. We are told the IE450T leaves the car driving jus
Post a Comment
Read more