While racing, as a sport, is going through a questionable time with respect to fans, street car super nationals seem to be keeping pace with the public’s fascination with speed. Kris Lauffer is one man that has set more VW records than anyone else on the planet. He rules the 1/8th and ¼ mile. You have to wonder what it is that makes his team wants to make a VW go that fast.
Maybe it’s the world’s fascination with the Bug. First heralded as the “people’s car,” it has been embraced around the world from Mexico and Latin America, to Europe and back. It was economical and sturdy. It could be depended on to get you where you needed to go—at a price that you could afford. Lauffer takes fans down memory lane; but with a twist of extreme speed.