Audi RS4 Avant loses Nurburgring record...

[Kell]

...to a Seat Leon ST Cupra 280.



http://www.evo.co.uk/seat/leon-st/15971/seat-leon-...

[g7jhp]

Pointless. It's a fast family estate car, the Nurburgring means nothing.

I know which I'd prefer, just for the sound and looks alone.

[GreenArrow]

Is it just me or does anyone else find these times suspiciously fast. I really do struggle to believe that a stock FWD hatch with only 280 PS can really lap in under 8 mins. I appreciate that tyre and suspension technology has come on in leaps and bounds, but only 2 seconds slower than Walter Rohl managed in 1999 in a 360 BHP 911 GT3?

[pad58]

GreenArrow said:

Is it just me or does anyone else find these times suspiciously fast. I really do struggle to believe that a stock FWD hatch with only 280 PS can really lap in under 8 mins. I appreciate that tyre and suspension technology has come on in leaps and bounds, but only 2 seconds slower than Walter Rohl managed in 1999 in a 360 BHP 911 GT3?

Agreed, RS4 Quattro 400+hp strange as a strange thing.

[Defcon5]

Does it come with race slicks and nitrous oxide as an obscure option or something?

[stef1808]

GreenArrow said:

Is it just me or does anyone else find these times suspiciously fast. I really do struggle to believe that a stock FWD hatch with only 280 PS can really lap in under 8 mins. I appreciate that tyre and suspension technology has come on in leaps and bounds, but only 2 seconds slower than Walter Rohl managed in 1999 in a 360 BHP 911 GT3?

Tyres alone must account for at least what - 10 seconds?

[spadriver]

Cant really see anything not to believe, Megane with 265 goes round quite comforably in under eight.Dont forget these are usually btg times, the run up from Bergwerk being one area that needs to be very quick , little or no braking at Angst helps alot as well.

[Dr G]

It's a bit of marketing fluff only marginally sillier than launch control, £7k stereos, night vision...

[SuperchargedVR6]

280PS, but probably had a 350PS 'overboost' feature that expired after, erm, 8 minutes!