The Nürburgring BMW 'Ring Taxi’ is now a thing of the past. The Ring Taxi will not be running this year at the Nürburgring, according to an email from OK Speed Marketing, which owns the ‘Ring Taxi’ name. The offers relating to taxi rides were already removed from the official website by the Nürburgring management. OK Speed Marketing will continue to run their taxi laps in the VLN practice on Friday afternoons throughout summer.
But their prices of €349 per customer indicate that there is no more funding from manufacturers to make more customers afford it. The Ring Taxi is a legacy that would be sorely missed, especially by fans of BMW, Sabine and the Nurburgring.
The cost of €189 per car load (up to 3 people) is just too tempting to ignore. Being driven around by a celebrity driver on a brand-new BMW M5 around the Nordschleife has to cost more than the post-tax €158.82 cover price, right? So far, there have been no reports on whether there is anything that will replace it. It can be recalled that Nurburgring has attempted to run its own taxi service, with Andy Gülden driving crappy vehicles from a Passat B36 to the Aston N24. Update: The latest reports from M3Post indicate that the car will be replaced by an M3 and that Sabine Schmitz will no longer be the driver this year.
...WELCOME RACE TAXI!
Everyone here knows that Sabine Schmitz, driver of the famed Nurburgring BMW M5 Ring Taxi is one of the hottest car chicks ever. She’s got girl next door looks and a right foot that makes performance cars do all sorts of freaky shit. However with BMW pulling the plug on her beloved M5 due to rising liability and maintenance costs, it was rumored that our bubbly blond uber woman was going to soon be out of a job. However, thanks to Team Frikadelli Racing, tourists all over the world can still revel in speed, as Sabine will now be able to hurdle riders into oblivion in a new Porsche 997 GT3 RS aptly renamed, “Race Taxi”. I’ve got some seat time in a 997 GT3 RS and I can tell you that it makes a BMW M5 look like a 600 lb belly dancer with a gut full of chocolate donuts. Keep in mind that the price for riding side saddle next to the Queen of the Ring ain’t cheap at $730.00, but quite frankly… who cares? This would be a dream ride and if I had the scratch (and lived in Germany) I’d plunk down my moola’ in a heartbeat.
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