300mph top speeds. 6min 30 at the Nürburgring. Are cars too fast? #277

The Intercooler

Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel

Cars, The Intercooler, Car, Motorsport, Supercar, Leisure, Automotive, Intercooler, Driving

4.8 • 868 Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel ask if performance testing is getting out of hand. With several car makers pursuing 300mph top speeds with road-legal cars, and as showroom models begin to lap the Nürburgring in 6min 30secs, is it time to put a stop to all this or should mankind continue to push the boundaries of what's possible? Dan and Andrew debate those points and more, and consider what role car magazines have played in all this.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Intercooler podcast powered by car finance specialist JBR Capital.
0:10.2	This is episode 277 with Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel.
0:15.9	I wanted to talk to you, Andrew, about performance testing and performance record breaking.
0:25.0	Because it's arguably in a healthier, better state than it ever has been, or it's getting
0:33.6	completely out of hand.
0:35.9	Nureberg ring times,
0:42.8	nought to 400 kilometres per hour to nought battles,
0:44.7	car magazine figuring,
0:45.7	top speeds,
0:47.7	300 mile an hour top speeds.
0:48.1	Yeah.
0:50.3	It's all absolutely potty.
0:52.0	Now, what was it?
0:56.3	Was it the daily mail that had a sort of panic, a moral panic about the Lotus Carlton all those years ago? We're doing 177 miles an hour? Yeah. Four-door family
1:03.4	saloon. I don't want that to, I don't want this to be like that. No. And actually, I'm, I don't
1:08.0	know because I'm afraid I'm not a daily male reader.
1:11.6	Yeah, I was... I'm sure it was the daily male.
1:13.6	It's certainly one of the tabloid...
1:15.5	One of the more easily outraged of the tabloids.
1:17.7	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:19.7	I don't want this to be like that because a lot of this stuff, I think, is deeply cool.
1:24.1	And it does sort of further human achievement you know and it's it's really
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