📰 Auto News 2012 Jeep SRT8 runs the Ring in.....

[Mook]

video
https://vimeo.com/39492904

The Dodge Viper SRT10 ACR currently holds the unofficial production car record for a Nürburgring lap with a time of 7:12.13. The Porsche Panamera Turbo S is the first four-door to show up on the list of lap times with a 7:52.00. The Audi RS6 Avant is the quickest wagon with a time of 8:09.00, and the first thing resembling a sport utility vehicle is the BMW X6 M at 8:24.00. That right there would be the target for a Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8 were someone to bring one to Germany for a 'Ring run. Last September, somebody did.

Piloted by the eminently qualified Sabine Schmitz, the Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8 did the deed in 8:49.00. Ouch. That's 25 seconds behind the X6 M and slower than even the front-wheel-drive Chevrolet HHR SS (8:43.52). Still, you can't be taken seriously as a performance machine these days until you pay tribute at the Green Hell. And watching something attempt a high-speed 'Ring run that was originally designed to rock crawl is always fun. Scroll down to watch the official lap vid from SRT.

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[SirMarco]

I'm shocked yet not shocked at the same time. What gets me is a HHR went faster around "The Ring".

 

[Yaj Yak]

hhr

 

[Euro]

hhr

x2

 

[MikeyLikesIt]

I think it's more shocking someone actually took an HHR around the ring.

 

[EmersonHart13]

I saw one of these at Jewel the other day and they are sharp looking...

And lol at the HHR.

 

[SRT41320]

they need that chick (Sabina Schmitt?) that drove the cargo van around the ring on top gear to shave a couple seconds off...

 

[skeezer]

they need that chick (Sabina Schmitt?) that drove the cargo van around the ring on top gear to shave a couple seconds off...

Piloted by the eminently qualified Sabine Schmitz, the Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8 did the deed in 8:49.00.

Same person?

 

[Mook]

same person

 

[Turk]

PWNT

 

[Primalzer]

reading fail

 

[jason05gt]

The SRT8 isn't really a hardcore track vehicle, but it's cool to see at the Ring.

 

[ktraver97ss]

The SRT8 isn't really a hardcore track vehicle, but it's cool to see at the Ring.

Yeah and an HHR is a track monster...

 

[ef_vtak]

the ring is such a high power oriented track im astonished it didn't put down something in the 8:30s range atleast....well that just attests to chrysler's abilities

 

[Turk]

I wouldn't go that far considering Chrysler did produce the fastest production car to lap the ring.

 

[ef_vtak]

if and when did Chrysler have their hand in Radical?

srs question

 

[RICH17]

Im surprised it didnt do better. I wonder if we'll get an ACR SRT8GC?



And the HHRSS was the faster wagon on there for a long time IIRC

 

[Turk]

Guess it depends on your definition of "production" vehicle. I'd have to agree with Dodge on what they consider production. A company that makes a couple dozen cars, that have to be modified to be considered street legal, is hardly production IMO.

 

[Turk]

You consider this

a production car?

srs question

 

[ef_vtak]

It is credited with the title of fastest production car to lap the ring, it has nothing to do with what i consider it.

FWIW I don't believe the ACR was "street legal" by the US standards. I'm not knocking the Viper brand, what those engineers do is incredible, but that knowledge in seemingly almost no way shape or form seems to trickle down to any of the affiliated brands.

 

[Turk]

The Viper ACR is street legal straight from the dealer, you can make it illegal by bolting on the given air dams to the front of the car.

 

[ef_vtak]

The record braking radical was driven from England to Germany and ran the lap a day or so later.

 

[jason05gt]

The record braking radical was driven from England to Germany and ran the lap a day or so later.

I've seen a Radical up close at the track. It's a glorified kit car. It's by no means what I would call a productionc car.

 

[YoushallgoFo]

The apollo and Radical are considered "production" cars but considering the purpose of those cars and the price I don't think the big manufacturers really care about them. I think if Chevy or Nissan or whoever can beat that viper they will consider themselves the new "fastest".

and the X5M > SRT8.

 

[ef_vtak]

Nor would I, but that doesn't change the fact that it holds the record for fastest production car around the ring.