Alfa Romeo Giulia QV STUNS with 7:39s Nurbrurgring lap

The Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio – Alfa’s new BMW M3 basher – has set a Nurburgring lap time of 7:39, a full thirteen seconds quicker than the BMW M4.

The new Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio was revealed in June – although it’ll be another year before it arrives on UK shores – complete with great looks and a V6 503bhp Ferrari lump under the bonnet which can propel it to 62mph in just 3.9 seconds and on to a top speed of 191mph.

Figures like that make the competition from BMW, Audi and Jaguar look feeble, but paper figures are one thing – real world performance another.

But Alfa have that covered with the news that the Giulia QV has lapped the Nurburgring in a time of just 7:39, a time that’s a full 13 seconds quicker than the BMW M4 has done.

To give that some perspective, that’s just 1 second slower than a Lexus LF-A, the same time as a Ferrari 430 Scuderia and a second quicker than a Lamborghini Murcielago, McLaren SLR and the 2009 Porsche 911 GT3.

A note of caution is needed as there are no really official timing systems for Nurburgring laps, but even the clumsiest of Alfa stopwatch holders are unlikely to have been out by far, and certainly not by a yawning gap of 13 seconds to the M4’s time.

And if we take the Alfa Giulia’s time as correct, that makes it the fastest production saloon car to go round the Nurburgring ever.

Which won’t hurt its sales potential when it hits the market next year up against cars like the BMW M3 and Mercedes C63 AMG.