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REPORT: South African man sets speed record for blind - in 200 mph SL Black Series!

Looks like Luc Costermans (a.k.a. the Blind Belgian) is no longer the world's fastest sight-challenged driver. The latest person to snatch the world land speed record for the blind is South Africa's Hein Wagner. Wagner, who has been blind since birth, pushed a borrowed Mercedes-Benz SL65 Black Series to 322.5 km/h, just a tick over 200 mph. That puts him in the Guinness Book of World Records, ahead of Costermans, and it's not the first record for Wagner, though. This is the same man who became the first South African to set a world land ... Read more →

Guinness Attempt: Biggest-ever Subaru gathering planned for Illinois in July Dan Roth

Thunder will descend upon Itasca, Illinois on July 11th, even if the sky is clear. The rumbling will be of the horizontally-opposed variety as Subaru of America's Great Lakes Region goes for a ...

VW Jetta TDI sets Guinness World Record of 58.82 mpg Jonathon Ramsey

The VW Jetta TDI has proven to be quite popular in the short time it's been on sale here in the U.S.: it has put sales of the Tiguan in the cooler and the ones that are available are very hard to ...

Ferrari gets in Guinness with record 385 cars at Silverstone John Neff

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REPORT: South African man sets speed record for blind - in 200 mph SL Black Series! 2 months ago on Autoblog

Guinness Attempt: Biggest-ever Subaru gathering planned for Illinois in July 5 months ago on Autoblog

Thunder will descend upon Itasca, Illinois on July 11th, even if the sky is clear. The rumbling will be of the horizontally-opposed variety as Subaru of America's Great Lakes Region goes for a Guinness world record. The particular accomplishment Subaru is after is the "largest Parade of Subaru ...

VW Jetta TDI sets Guinness World Record of 58.82 mpg 1 year ago on Autoblog

The VW Jetta TDI has proven to be quite popular in the short time it's been on sale here in the U.S.: it has put sales of the Tiguan in the cooler and the ones that are available are very hard to get. Now the fairest Jetta of them all has set a Guinness World Record by traversing the lower 48 U.S. ...

Ferrari gets in Guinness with record 385 cars at Silverstone 2 years ago on Autoblog

click above image to view more pics of Ferrari's record-breaking parade of cars Last Saturday, Ferrari finally got its wish and set the Guinness World Record for the Largest Parade of Ferrari Cars. It wasn't easy, requiring 385 cars to drive a distance of at least two miles with each car being no ...

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