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Toyota smashes electric car lap record at Nurburgring

Toyota has set a new electric car record at the Nurburgring – with a silent but speedy 7min 47.794sec lap of the Nordschleife. You can watch the record lap in our video above. Ring specialist Jochen Krumbach was at the wheel of the Toyota Motorsport EV P001 racer, obliterating Peugeot's previous 9min 1.338sec record in the EX1 concept car.

KTM's four-wheeled future

By Ben Purvis Motor Industry 25 February 2008 11:26 KTM's X-Bow track day car is just the start of a five-model line-up that will include Dakar and Le Mans endurance racers. Stefan Pierer, the youthful-looking 51 year-old CEO of KTM, has revealed to CAR how he intends to turn his company into the Austrian equivalent of Lotus. The unveiling of the production version of the Audi-engined, carbon-monocoque X-Bow at the Geneva Motor Show on March 4 2008 is exactly one year on from the first showing of the prototype.

Rolls Royce Bespoke & ‘The Daddy’ of Picnic Sets

The Rolls Royce Bespoke Picnic Set You can buy a Rolls Royce Phantom for as little as £275,000. Which may seem like a lot of money, but to the Phantom buyer who probably already owns not only a number of other cars but in all likelihood a yacht and a plane as well, it’s a mere bagatelle. What’s more, the Rolls Royce buyer well used to buying and commissioning private yachts and planes is also used to specifying custom options.