Six minutes, twenty-two seconds. That’s long—or really, how little—it took a stripped-out prototype version “China’s Apple Car” to lap the 12.9-mile Nürburgring Nordschleife.
This is not the first time that a variant of the Xiaomi SU7 has set a wild lap time at the Nürburgring. Last fall, the same car did the lap in 6:46.874, beating out even the mighty Porsche Taycan Turbo GT (though the two exist in different classes, so it’s not a true one-to-one comparison).
Today, however, the Chinese tech giant announced that it’s beaten that record by a wide margin. “Under optimal conditions, the Xiaomi SU7 Ultra Prototype achieved an even faster lap time, improving by 24 seconds to 6:22.091,” the automaker announced. That’s a new prototype lap record, and it puts the car in third place on the Nordschleife leaderboard.
This is a breaking news post. It will be updated momentarily.
