This happened back in December and thought you'd be inrerested...

(rough AltaVista translation from german mag/site Auto Bild - http://www.autobild.de/aktuell/neuheiten/artikel.php?artikel_id=7707)

Speed record.
Faster ' s did not go.
A Porsche 911 of the tuner 9ff set up a new speed record for to road-certified vehicles - to 388 km/h.

12.12.2004 - Nardo. The speed world record for to road-certified vehicles comes again made of Germany. Nearly six years, after McLaren with the F1 had screwed the record mark on 386,7 km/h, the measuring pole slipped again a bit more highly.

Jan Fatthauer, owner and chief engineer of 9ff, drove the record maximum personally: 388 km/h on the round course of Nardo. The 9ff-V400 on basis Porsche 996 GT2 carries out 840 HP and 880 Nm torque - for achievement enough, in order to lift the sportsman theoretically over the 400 km/h mark.

Contact 9ff Fahrzeugtechnik GmbH, 44319 Dortmund, www.9ff.de

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:eek:

REad full length article in excellence magazine.

REad full length article in excellence magazine.

Took the words right out of my mouth! :)

-Eli

Read it in Evo in February 2005...I think the car is based on the GT3

Geez, that is real fast.

In the European Evo mag. they go on to say that they will try for faster and that they had held back on that set of runs.