Chinese car manufacturer Aiways has claimed a Guinness World Records title for the “longest journey by an electric vehicle (prototype)” after two of its U5 EVs completed an epic 9,334-mile (15,022 km) road trip from China to Germany. Starting in Xi’an, China, a team of engineers tackled extreme weather and …
Read More »Jaguar XE SV Project 8 sets speed record
The awesome Jaguar XE SV Project 8 has confirmed its status as the world’s fastest production saloon with a new lap record in the US. Driver Randy Pobst clocked 1min 37.54sec in a Project 8 at the 2.2-mile WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca in Monterey, California – almost a second faster …
Read More »Electric car’s record-breaking Nurburgring lap
Whoosh! Watch the NIO EP9 all-electric supercar smash the Nürburgring Nordschleife lap record… A remarkable video has been released by Chinese-backed NextEV featuring its futuristic car lap the notorious 12.9-mile “Green Hell” in six minutes, 45.900 seconds – 19.22 seconds faster than its previous lap time. Shaving 2.1 seconds off …
Read More »Idris Elba: record-breaking ‘Bentley Boy’
Actor Idris Elba follows in the famous footsteps of Sir Malcolm Campbell, breaking the 88-year-old ‘Flying Mile’ UK land speed record in a Bentley Continental GT Speed. The star of Luther, The Wire and Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom achieved 180.361mph on Pendine Sands, Wales. He broke the existing record …
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