These Are The Fastest Production Cars To Lap The Nürburgring

Ah, the Nürburgring. For better or worse, a 12.94-mile lap around the iconic circuit is pretty much the universal benchmark for any automaker that who builds a sports car. Every year it seems some company (usually based in Germany) has a brand new car that'll make it around the loop incrementally faster than the car that preceded it.

Right now, there's a new top dog in town in terms of lap times, so we thought it was as good a time as ever to take a look at the top 15 production car lap time around the Nürburgring.

We did our best to compile a correct list with all the —sometimes sketchy —information out there. Also, completely unrelated, but did you guys ever notice the Nürburgring looks like a pig's head? No? Only me? Fair enough.

Hell yeah. What a strong start! Right here, we've got the best track-ready monster American could come up with. The rest of the cars on this list may be European and faster, but we all know this is the best.

The Pista is one pretty sweet piece of kit. Be on the lookout for whatever the hot version of the 296 GTB is to break this record in the coming years.

Here we've got the first of many Porsches on this list. Coincidentally, it is also the newest. There's little doubt that the GT3 RS will be a whole lot faster than this car.

The fact Lamborghini, a company not really known for racing, was able to make a car as big as the Aventador go around the track this fast is truly a feat to behold.

If my calculations are correct, this is the only convertible in the top 15 lap times. That means, by default, it is the best. (Well, okay it's the second best, because the Viper ACR is the best.)

This Porsche is cool because it's green. I don't make the rules, I just enforce them. Ugh fine... I guess the fact it's the most hardcore 911 is pretty neat too.

Some people may contend that this isn't a road car. Too bad. If you lived in Britain, you could drive it on the street. That's good enough for me.

Huracáns are great at two things: crushing lap times and cruising in South Beach.

Another 911! Are you sensing a theme here?

Again, if Britain considers this a road car, than so do I. Queen Elizabeth (God rest her soul) said so herself.

It's a real feat of engineering that the folks over at Mercedes-AMG were able to get a front-engined car around the 'Ring this fast.

It's a bird! It's a plane! It's... another 911.

If you thought that last Lamborghini Aventador's lap time was fast, you should see this Lamborghini Aventador's lap time.

Despite the fact the 911 is everywhere on this list, it still got absolutely blown out of the lap time water by another wild group of Germans.

The AMG One is the true 'Ring champ. In fact, it's so dominant it just beat its own Nürburgring lap record. With DTM driver Maro Engel behind the wheel of the Formula 1-powered Mercedes, the car beat its own record by over five seconds. It also became the first production car to ever make it all the way around the 'Ring in under six minutes and 30 seconds. That's some other-worldly speed.

You can read more about this astonishing accomplishment here.