Ac Schnitzer ACS3 3.5d Coupé reaches 288.vii km/h in Nardò. Tertiary World Record in Succession: AC Schnitzer builds fastest diesel automobile.It's a hat-trick: for the third fourth dimension, Air-conditioning Schnitzer has gone to Nardò in southern Italy and brought home a 3rd world record for Aachen.

The legendary high-speed circuit has already been the setting for and then many records. Once a yr in southern Italy, under the aegis of "CONTINENTAL AG" and in collaboration with the editors of "Machine BILD sportscars", the 'creme de la crème' of vehicle tuners go head to head – this year on 18th and 19th Oct 2009.

The Air conditioning Schnitzer ACS3 3.5d Coupé succeeded in breaking the world record from 2006 for the fastest road-legal diesel car by over 8.vii km/h.

288.seven km/h was the figure on the display of the GPS speedometer organization on the 13 km long high-speed circuit – which is in principle a giant oversized circle – later on the fast lap of the AC Schnitzer ACS3 3.5d Coupé.

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Subsequently the records from 2006 with the TENSION every bit the fastest road-legal BMW, the world tape all the same held by the GP3.ten GAS POWERED from 2007 for gas-powered vehicles, the ACS3 iii.5d Coupé (based on the BMW 335d) has continued the success story.

Naturally the power upgrade which took the latest world record holder to success is function of the extensive AC Schnitzer special accompaniment range and available for all vehicles based on the 3.5d engine. It is TÜV-approved and available from BMW dealers.

Another impressive performance in Nardò came from the Air conditioning Schnitzer ACS4 iii.5 turbo (based on the BMW Z4 sdrive 35i). At 303.1 km/h, this was not a new world, merely such a loftier speed is almost unheard of for a Roadster. The Z4 was besides running with the commercial version of the Air-conditioning Schnitzer functioning upgrade for three.5i engines. Quickly, as we found out.