This short YouTube clip compares GT5 gameplay with actual driving footage around the Nürburgring Nordschleife. While the latest iteration of Sony’s Gran Turismo classic might have its critics, at least it looks like the graphics are bang on.
Everyone’s favourite taxi driver, Sabine Schmitz, is featured here in unscripted, a new promo series from BMW. “No script, just real people,” says the marketing blurb. This episode with Sabine gives a great, albeit brief, look at her history with BMW and the Nürburgring Nordschleife. For more on Sabine take a trip down memory lane […]
Here is a great old clip of some Touristenfahrten footage filmed in 1977. The action was captured at the notorious Adenauer Forst section, which is known for inexperienced driver carrying too much speed into the tight left hander. Thirty-three years on people still make the same rookie mistake over and over again! It’s interesting to […]
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 […]
While no official details about the RS5 have been made public, it appears as though there are now a few pre-production examples getting around. Here is a clip of what is believed to be an RS5 lapping the Nürburgring Nordschleife. The deeper lower vents on the front grille certainly indicate this is an RS5 model, […]