Ford SuperVan Beats Mustang GTD At The ‘Ring

Ford has acceptable a alternatively antithetic Nürburgring record, with its Transit SuperVan 4.2 becoming the fastest van to ever thigh the Nordschleife. It’s not roadworthy legal, nor tin it haul cargo, but it’s present firmly successful the past books.

Two decades ago, Sabine Schmitz famously lapped the Green Hell successful a Ford Transit successful 10:12 for an occurrence of Top Gear. This week, Ford announced that its purpose-built SuperVan 4.2 obliterated that benchmark by much than 3 minutes. Behind the instrumentality was Romain Dumas, the brand’s go-to EV operator and victor of this year’s Pikes Peak International Hill Climb successful the F-150 Lightning racer. His thigh time: 6:48.42. That puts the electrical van betwixt the Chevrolet Corvette ZR1X and the outgoing Mercedes-AMG GT Black Series connected the Nürburgring leaderboard.

Of course, it’s not an apples-to-apples comparison. The SuperVan 4.2, producing 2,000 hp (1,491 kW), ran connected slick tyres, portion accumulation cars similar the Mustang GTD station times connected road-legal rubber. That makes it much straight comparable to record-chasing machines similar the Volkswagen ID.R, which acceptable the all-time EV grounds of 6:05 astatine the Nordschleife, besides with Dumas astatine the wheel.

The outright Nürburgring grounds inactive belongs to Porsche’s 919 Hybrid Evo, which stunned with a 5:19 thigh backmost successful 2018. Ford’s SuperVan isn’t successful that stratosphere, but dissimilar the Porsche oregon the Volkswagen, it wears the unmistakable silhouette of a transportation van. And that unsocial makes this accomplishment basal out.

The station Ford SuperVan Beats Mustang GTD At The ‘Ring appeared archetypal connected Zero2Turbo.