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Top Gear power laps: the fastest cars on the Top Gear track
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The Top Gear power lap has become a rite of passage for the fastest cars in the world. Every Top Gear series, the latest supercars, hypercars and loony-tunes track weapons arrive at the Top Gear test track and take their shot at glory in the hands of the show’s tame racing driver, The Stig.
Achieving top spot in the power lap list can do wonders for a performance car’s profile but the competition is so fierce, you can bet that anything making the top 20 is stupendously quick.
Entry onto the table is strictly limited to road legal production cars so a lap in Pagani’s specially prepared Zonda R of 1.08.05s didn’t count and neither did Michael Schumacher’s 1.10.07s lap in Ferrari’s FXX prototype. What follows are the cars with the fastest legal power laps to date in reverse order. Enjoy…
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29/01/2013 18:14
SOME funny comments here: A few comments stating why the hell do they make cars to have so much speed, the speed limit is only 70mph...........dumb comment.....another comment stating whats the point in making a hyper car at £500.000 when at best you can only do 40mph..............PEOPLE WHERE DO THESE PEOPLE COME FROM WRITING THE MOST DUMB ARSE COMMENTS EVER ON MSN.......
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29/01/2013 22:00
I love supercars and I love Top Gear - but these extravagances are the last gasps in an era where super-rich who don't deserve to be, are wasting money they don't understand the real value of on obscene toys. These cars depreciate like a rock, such that they cost their owners tens - perhaps even hundreds - of thousands of pounds per year to sit on their drives. Take the Bently Continental GT - you can buy one two years old for £100,000 less than the new price, but even then you'd be mad to do so - you may be able to afford a £60,000 second-hand Bently, but you not being super-rich, you're still going to find it's 10.5 MPG and £5,000 servicing costs difficult to justify. Flash cars, from whichever financial point you look at them, don't make sence.
What a shame.
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28/01/2013 14:59
Why the bloody hell they need all that speed for when the speed limit is at best 70mph, yes nice to have a little bit extra for an over take manoeuvre, but there will always be some stupid bastard will have a crash all because of speed, my frontera 4x4 2.2ltr can only manage 95 at top speed max, thats all i can get out of it but i've only done it once, as i dont see why i should knock the **** out of it just to prove a point, i try and stick to speed limits when the roads and weather permits, if the roads are congested the legal speed limit is i stick to when the roads are clear or farely clear i do admit to putting my foot down a bit more but not to the point where i cant stop safely, on dual carriage ways and motorways i just stick to 50mph or just slightly more if the road doesnt have any other roads off it, but i still cant see the point of putting all that power in a car unless your taking it on a proper reace track.
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