Škoda has announced that it has broken two Guinness World Records with its electric SUV, the Enyaq RS iV, the brand’s second all-electric sporting model.
The record in question was the ‘Longest Continuous Vehicle Drift on Ice’, and of course breaking the record of ‘Longest Continuous Vehicle Drift on Ice (Electric Car)’.
The records were set on a circular track measuring 188.496 m in circumference on the frozen Stortjärnen lake near Östersund, Sweden, where Richard Meaden held the Enyaq RS iV in a controlled slide, drift, for more than 15 minutes and 7.351 km. Beating the previous record of 6.231 km, set in China in 2022.
Meaden had also set another record with Škoda before, when he set a new Southern Californian Timing Association (SCTA) Land Speed Record for a 2.0-litre forced induction production car, recording 227.080 mph driving a Škoda UK built Octavia RS on the Bonneville Salt Flats in the USA.
With a GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS adjudicator present and international drifting judge David Kalas as a witness, Škoda set the record on the brand’s fourth day on location following numerous practice runs with different tyre combinations. A total of 18 hours of drifting were put in across the full five days in sub-zero temperatures to achieve the perfect drift.