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The Nissan GT-R has lapped the Nürburgring racetrack in Germany in a record time of seven minutes 29 seconds – beating the Bugatti Veyron by 11 seconds.

The new Nissan GT-R – which will hit UK shores in 2009 – blitzed the legendary Nürburgring track shaving off a full nine seconds from its previous record of seven minutes 38 seconds.

And the seven minutes 29 seconds posted by the standard spec Nissan GT-R makes it one of the fastest production cars ever to lap the challenging Nürburgring track.

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Test driver Tochio Suzuki – who posted the GT-R’s original time of seven minutes 38 seconds – was determined to beat his previous record.

Kazutoshi Mizuno, chief engineer for the GT-R, said: “At last year’s testing, we were very frustrated by the conditions at the Nürburgring.”

The earlier record lap time was posted despite the track being slightly damp on two corners.

Mizuno added: “The GT-R proves it is among the fastest mass-production cars in the world. We set out to build a multi-performance supercar accessible to anyone, anytime, and anywhere.”