A short clip from BMW-web.tv showing the X5 M being put through its paces around the Nürburgring. It doesn’t show a lot, but there’s some in-car footage, with commentary, at Klostertal and the Karussell.

A Holden Commodore SS, or more correctly, a Pontiac G8 GXP has been spotted testing at the Ring. The Aussie derived saloon, sporting Victorian number plates, has set a lap time of 8 minutes 30 seconds. The time was set by a GM engineer, not a professional racing driver, and looking at a list of [...]

Audi’s awesome R8 GT3 has recently been spotted in wet weather testing at the Nürburgring Nordschleife. Despite the presence of the small quattro badge on the front grille, GT3 racing regulations stipulate the car must be rear-wheel drive only and the purpose-built customer racecar is expected to produce at least 375kW (500bhp). The car is [...]

Last month pictures of the new Renault Mégane III were revealed. Now, the Coupé model has been spotted in testing on the Nürburgring Nordschleife. Styling cues such as bigger front air dams and centre exhaust point to this being a Renaultsport model in development, which is due to be shown at next year’s Geneva Motor [...]

This is a question Dale Lomas from RSR Nürburg asked himself on his BridgeToGantry website. It’s a great read. I’ve included a small extract below: “But the importance of this 20.8 kilometre tarmac rollercoaster (whose infield section alone contains four complete villages and a population of nearly 2500) runs deeper than it being a summer [...]

Taking a step back in time here is a small snippet offrom Wheels August 2001 issue with some spy shots of the R53 MINI Cooper S testing at the Nürburgring (click on the image for a larger version). At the time the then all-new MINI Cooper under BMW’s stewardship had just been launched and there [...]

NextAutos is reporting sightings of an Audi R8 Spider on roads near the Ring. The Spider—although naming has not been confirmed—is believed to be available with the existing 4.2 litre V8 engine as well as the 5.0 litre V10, as the large tailpipes on these shots would indicate. The familiar side blades of the R8 [...]

This is a pretty cool clip showing a bunch of random exotica being tested at the Nürburgring Nordschleife. Car spotting at it’s finest! There’s too many models to mention but Porsche, Ferrari, Audi, Aston Martin, Alfa Romeo and Mercedes-Benz cars are featured. Many of the cars are easily recognised, but there’s also a few reasonably [...]

Since retiring from full time racing seven time F1 world champion Michael Schumacher has been keeping his toe in the water by taking on a testing and development role with Ferrari’s road car program. The Italian manufacturer recently hired the Nürburgring to test the Ferrari F430 Scuderia and Michael certainly kept his toe in it. [...]

If you’ve not seen, read or, most impressively, heard about this car before then here’s a best of the web gathering of information. As you can see from bridgetogantry‘s photo this Mercedes-Benz McLaren SLR Speedster is a pretty wild looking thing. Check out their site for video of the beast in action. The Speedster is [...]

This is very cool! Porsche have collected data from countless hours of Nürburgring Nordschleife testing to produce the virtual engine simulator. The telemetry gathered enables the simulator to not only recreate the acceleration and engine braking from a lap at the Ring, but also the G-forces as well. This machine was used in the development [...]

According to the blog of Corvette’s Chief Engineer, Tadge J Juechter, the ZR1 is the latest car to claim the headlines with a full Nordschleife lap of 7:26.4. That is almost three seconds faster than the much hyped Nissan GT-R (7:29). Not only that, it is also quicker than Porsche’s latest GT2 (7:32). Pretty darn [...]