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McLaren confirms P1 performance figures

The first McLaren P1 was driven away by its proud owner at the end of September. Now, McLaren figures it’s time to publish the claimed performance stats for its latest and greatest hybrid hypercar. If they chose, instead of a heap of numbers, McLaren could have simply said, “It’s bloody fast!” Try these numbers on […]

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McLaren

McLaren P1 returns to chase Nürburgring glory

McLaren is chasing lap record glory at the Nürburgring, with this P1 hypercar seen in full attack mode on the Nordschleife on Wednesday. In early September a rumoured lap time of 7:04 was posted by the hybrid McLaren. Even if true, for two reasons, it’s not fast enough. Firstly, Ron Dennis has said the P1 […]

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Nissan

How fast can the Nissan GT-R Nismo go?

While Matt Prior from Autocar presents a good case for the demise of lap times as a subjective measure in contributing towards a decision to purchase one car over another, Dale Lomas from Bridge to Gantry reports that Nissan is going all out with its latest Nismo GT-R: The Nürburgring is always being used for […]

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Audi

Audi diesel hybrid has McLaren P1 in its sights

Audi is proposing to create a new model that would sit above its R8 supercar (pictured). Not only that, according to quattro GmbH boss, Franciscus Van Meel, if it gets built it will be better than the yet to be released McLaren P1 hypercar. Expected to be powered by a diesel-electric hybrid drivetrain it will […]

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Green Machines Volkswagen

Volkswagen Jetta world’s fastest hybrid, kind of

All the hybrid talk round here of late has been about the Porsche 918, so it may surprise a few to learn it’s the humble Volkswagen Jetta Hybrid LSR that has officially etched its name into the records books first. Competing at the Bonneville Word Finals in the class for production cars with engines of […]