I know spending a couple of days at the Nürburgring Nordschleife can set you back a fair amount of money; what with fuel prices, lap prices and car hire. But the price being asked for this two-year-old Vertu mobile phone on eBay takes the cake. Back in 2006 Vertu released a Limited Edition ‘Racetrack Series’ […]

Is the tight, twisty and ultra smooth Jebel Hafeet Mountain Road in Abu Dhabi better than the Nürburgring Nordschleife? Is it the best road in the world, as some people claim? In Series 15, Episode 7, Fifth Gear sent Tiff Needell to the middle east and gave him the keys to a BMW M3 to […]

Online magazine ROAD, has given us 73 pages of Nürburgring goodness. That’s one page for each corner! Included in their Nürburgring Nordschleife special are stories on track days, circuit tips, VLN racing series, past masters and much more (including plenty of input from Sabine Schmitz). You can click on the image above to read the […]

Here’s an interesting lap from Netherlands based company JD Engineering. Filmed in October 2007 it shows their 376hp (280kW) Mk5 Golf GTI completing a bridge to gantry time of around 8 minutes 18 seconds. The footage itself is not so great, the camera mount has too much movement, but any sub 8:30 time is worth […]

Hotel An Der Nordschleife has followed the lead of RSR Nürburg and now offers Renault Clios for use around the Nürburgring. Although, unlike the RSR option, I suspect these Clios will be left hand drive. As you can see from the image above, Hotel An Der Nordschleife is located just near the Breidscheid entrance, and […]

…not at the Nürburgring. Details of the the new 997.5 Porsche 911 GT3 were released the other day (see AUSmotive for more), and now a promotional video of the car in action has surfaced. As with other similar videos Porsche’s most famous test driver Walter Röhrl is at the wheel. However, perhaps crucially, the footage […]