A Viper ACR. Not at the Nurburgring
Whenever a car manufacturer, journalist or blogger brags about a new Nurburgring time for a particular car, the descent into a 'my car is faster than yours, nah nah na-naah nah' mentality is, for some, almost inevitable.
Therefore (and despite there being no such thing as an official production car Nordschleife record), when a Lexus LF-A was clocked recently at 7mins 14secs, it was more than likely we would soon be hearing from Dodge, after they set the bar at 7mins 22secs back in 2008 with an MY09 Viper ACR.
Sure enough, according to Viper Club of America president Marv Spatz, a Viper ACR has reportedly just reclaimed the title with an unofficial time of "7:12 and change" courtesy of a pair of 2010 Viper ACR models, imported over by Tomball Dodge of Texas and prepped by Mintgen Motorsports, just down the road from the Nordschleife.
Of course, it would be churlish to mention that this is still some way off the (road-registered) Radical SR8LM's time of 6mins 48secs, posted in 2009 by Michael Vergers. So we won't...