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Win an Audi R8 for the weekend!

By Tim Pollard Competitions 25 February 2009 09:00 Click here to win an Audi R8 for the weekend with CAR Magazine To celebrate CAR Magazine's new look, we've teamed up with supercar club Ecurie25 to give one lucky reader the keys to an Audi R8 supercar for a long weekend, with tyres from Blackcircles.com as a runners-up prize. The R8 remains one of our favourite sports cars of the moment and picked up our coveted Performance Car of the Year gong in 2007. You'll be able to collect the keys to the V8 on a Friday morning from Ecurie25's London HQ and get to drive the 414bhp coupe all weekend until you hand back the keys to their base on Monday afternoon.

Dodge Viper takes Nurburgring Record – sort of

Dodge Viper - new Nurburgring record Back in 2008, the Dodge Viper ACR went to the Nurburgring and proved that cars built in the former Colonies really can go round bends, even bends at the ‘Green Hell’ of the Nurburgring. Not only could the Dodge Viper go round bends, but it made a pretty good fist of blasting down the straights too, culminating in a record-breaking lap of 7:22.1. But since 2008 things have moved on, with even a Lexus LFA posting a ‘Ring time of 7:14.64, so the SRT has returned to the Nordschleife to set about squeezing a bit more out of the Viper.

Mercedes E 63 AMG S: UK price from £83,740

The E63 AMG S is the extreme version of what is already an extreme car in the E63, with a power boost that takes it from 549bhp to 577bhp – and throws in an extra 60lb/ft of torque for good measure too – and promises real extreme performance. The problem is, getting that power down to the road. In left hand drive markets that’s solved by simply offering the Mercedes 4WD option – 4MATIC – which does a much better job of transferring power to the road than the regular RWD layout.