BMW M135i sets 8:05 Nurburgring Lap - Racing Cars Wallpapers

Bavaria's latest hot hatch outpaces its predecessor and the Porsche Cayman S on the Nordschleife. Acceleration times and top speeds are all well and fine, but the ultimate bragging rights - for a German car, especially - is a Nurburgring lap time. And a BMW M135i has just set a blistering 8 minutes and 5 seconds around the infamous Green Hell. To put that into perspective, the 8:05 lap time makes the M135i faster than a Porsche Cayman S, or more crucially, right on time with the outgoing M3. It's also ten seconds faster than the 1 Series M Coupe which the M135i essentially replaces. This despite having less power than the previous 1 Series M, the M135i packing 315 horsepower from its 3.0-liter six to the 1M Coupe's 340 hp. Equally impressive is that the lap time was set not by a racing driver or a Nurburgring expert, but by Autoforum driver Pavel Janda.


Source: Carbuzz