Ladies and gentlemen, do not start your engines.
While the Nurburgring Nordschleife usually conjures images of supercars careening around Karussell or barreling down the Dottinger Hohe straight at speeds exceeding 200 mph, British automotive journalist Joe Clifford raced a plug-in hybrid on the famous track at the slowest possible speed.
Now a new name can be added to the pantheon of record-setting vehicles at the Nurburgring: the Toyota Prius Plug-in.
Clifford's Toyota-sponsored stunt lap in a Prius Plug-in fitted with TRD parts (for style, none performance enhancing) clocked in at a whopping 20 minutes, 59 seconds, or 14 minutes behind the Porsche 918 Spyder. In that time, you could watch half an episode of "Big Bang Theory" before the Prius even finished a lap. Obviously, no speed records were set, but the lap saw the Prius Plug-in return 698 mpg -- a high mark in efficiency that will be hard to beat.
source: msn
While the Nurburgring Nordschleife usually conjures images of supercars careening around Karussell or barreling down the Dottinger Hohe straight at speeds exceeding 200 mph, British automotive journalist Joe Clifford raced a plug-in hybrid on the famous track at the slowest possible speed.
Now a new name can be added to the pantheon of record-setting vehicles at the Nurburgring: the Toyota Prius Plug-in.
Clifford's Toyota-sponsored stunt lap in a Prius Plug-in fitted with TRD parts (for style, none performance enhancing) clocked in at a whopping 20 minutes, 59 seconds, or 14 minutes behind the Porsche 918 Spyder. In that time, you could watch half an episode of "Big Bang Theory" before the Prius even finished a lap. Obviously, no speed records were set, but the lap saw the Prius Plug-in return 698 mpg -- a high mark in efficiency that will be hard to beat.
source: msn
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