Originally Posted by findleybeast
Originally Posted by inso
With one on 840 HP GET down Porsche GT3 set up the tuner 9ff a new speed record for to road-certified passenger car and exceeded thus the old record mark of the McLaren F1 of 386,7 km/h.
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Doesn't say anything about being the record for a production car, just a road-certified passenger car. Were the sledgehammers and other cars that have beaten the McLaren's speed road certified?
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The Callaway Sledgehammer was road legal (in 1988)...it was a pretty standard Vette, it had a/c, a stereo, etc, as I understand it the 9ff car has much heavier modifications (a 996 turbo engine in a GT3 body).
So I really don't see what the fuss is about the 9ff, yes its damn fast, but there have been a number of modified, street legal cars that are faster...I guess because the Vette didn't record the speed in Europe it doesn't count or something?