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Ehra-Lessien is a municipality in the district of Gifhorn, in Lower Saxony, Germany. ==Volkswagen Group test track== Volkswagen Group owns a test track facility in Ehra-Lessien. The facility was built during the Cold War. The location was chosen since at the time, it was in a no-fly zone near the East German border, thus safe from prying eyes seeing secret prototypes. The track is currently used by all Volkswagen Group subsidiaries and marques, such as Audi, Lamborghini, Bentley, Bugatti, SEAT, Skoda, and Porsche. The facility features of private tarmac, which includes a large variety of road surfaces and curves, used as test tracks to evaluate new and prototype vehicles. More significantly, there is a high speed circuit with a straight approximately long. Although this portion of the track is flat and level, when standing at one end of the straight, the other end cannot be seen due to the curvature of the Earth.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=James May takes the Bugatti Veyron to its top speed at Ehra-Lessien )〕 Including banked corners at both ends of the circuit, allowing for a high entry and exit speed to and from the straight, and to increase average speed during the lap, the straight is especially useful for determining vehicle top speed. Notably, the top speed of the Bugatti Veyron and the McLaren F1 were recorded along this straight. In an episode aired on 4 February 2007 on BBC Two's ''Top Gear'', presenter James May reached in a Bugatti Veyron.〔 In July 2010 a Bugatti Super Sport with recorded the production car world speed record at an average of . The facility also appeared on National Geographic Channel's ''Man-Made'', in an episode about the Bugatti Veyron. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ehra-Lessien」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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