What Car Do You Want To Drive On The Nürburgring?

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This week 2 different automakers announced Nürburgring records: Chevrolet mounting a grounds for the fastest American car pinch its Corvette ZR1X, and BMW mounting a grounds for the fastest wagon pinch its M3 CS Touring. That sewage maine reasoning astir my favourite Nürburgring thigh videos and racing footage, and astir nan countless times I've raced nan Nordschleife successful video games. And that sewage maine reasoning astir today's question.

What car do you want to thrust connected nan Nürbugring? Whether you've ne'er moreover been to Germany earlier aliases person lapped nan way hundreds (or thousands) of times, I want to cognize what benignant of car you'd adjacent want to thrust connected nan Green Hell. I deliberation this is really a beautiful difficult question. Sure, the record-holding Mercedes-AMG One is unreal, but nary measurement would I want to thrust that astatine Nürburgring pinch my insignificant way acquisition and zero 'Ring experience. There's a logic astir driving schools astatine nan way commencement you retired successful basking hatchbacks aliases likewise "slow" capacity cars.

Still, this is simply a hypothetical, and I'd for illustration to judge I could thrust thing faster — let's opportunity it's connected a tourer day, and I'm not really pushing it. In that case, I want to thrust a Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren astir nan Nürbugring, and it's each because of Gran Turismo 4. The last driving situation successful that game, nan famed Mission 34, puts you successful a metallic SLR astatine nan 'Ring, wherever you person to pursuit down 5 Mercedes sports cars that person gotten a caput start. In bid to complete nan ngo you request to walk nan car successful first place, a 1954 300SL Gullwing that has a caput commencement of 123 seconds — and you only person 1 thigh to do drawback it. You besides person to beryllium location successful nan pits and hold for those 2 minutes arsenic nan different cars spell up 1 by one.

Road & Track called Mission 34 "the hardest situation successful video crippled racing." Fans connected connection boards asked if it's moreover imaginable to complete nan mission, and others shared captious tips connected really to do it. I retrieve galore precocious nights pinch friends trying to complete nan mission, passing nan controller disconnected each fewer tries. It was extraordinarily frustrating, but still truthful overmuch fun. Even now, arsenic a overmuch much knowledgeable racing crippled enthusiast, Mission 34 is highly hard.

It helps that the SLR is specified a cool car, 1 that I still adore to this day. Sure, it's not nan sportiest aliases astir track-focused out of that era of supercars, but it looks unbelievable and has a fabulous supercharged motor that makes astonishing noises from its side-exit exhaust tips. And it has doors that spell up. Now, I decidedly don't deliberation I'd beryllium capable to execute that situation clip successful existent life, astatine slightest not without tons and tons of practice. But man, would I emotion to relive those memories. Being capable to thigh an SLR astir nan 'Ring would beryllium awesome, moreover if it's conscionable a slower scenic drive. I mean, look really nosy it looks successful nan supra video!

So, readers, what benignant of car would you for illustration to thrust astir nan Nürburgring? You've gotta show america nan why, too.