Volkswagen Test Track

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All new Volkswagen (VW) models in development will be tested here before they can go into production. The Area is surrounded by a forest and even the airspace is restricted to avoid photos taken. This is where James May took the Bugatti Veyron up to its top speed of 252 mph in Top Gear episode 9x02.

The facility features 96 kilometres (60mi) of private tarmac which includes a large variety of road surfaces and curves, such known as test tracks to test vehicles. More significantly, there is a high speed circuit with an unbroken straight of 9km in length, on which the top speed of several of the cars developed may be determined. Though this portion of the track is absolutely flat and leveled, when standing on one side of the straight, the other end cannot be seen due to the curvature of the earth. It also includes banked corners at both ends of the circuit, to allow a high average speed around the 20km lap.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehra-Lessien
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Coordinates:   52°38'2"N   10°45'57"E

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  • greatest straight track on earth.... but most of the people dont know about it..
  • I want to test the AE86 here!!! haha!
  • also, this track should be present in GT5 or future Gran Turismo Game =)
  • Hachiroku, suck off!
  • I wanna drive the bugatti veyron at top speed over here........ vrooooooooooooom............
  • Shad ap!
  • Or simply, shut up! Shad ap means Shut up in Brummie language (a form of English spoke by people from Birmingham, a large city in Englande). By the way, I'm from Sheffield, Englande.
  • I want to jog the entire track before i die!
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