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Wed 09 Sep 2009Muscle cars that sing to a different tune
THE OIL barons and Middle East nobility have different problems to you and I, and different ways of solving them. When one kept getting blown off the drag strip by a Bugatti Veyron, he didn’t just concede defeat, he took his Porsche Carrera GT to the good folks at 9ff and asked them to make it faster. Much faster, writes NICK HALL
Jan Fatthauer launched 9ff in 2001 with a clear (and omnipresent) vision. He wanted to make the world’s fastest cars, Porsches to be precise, and he has taken a record each and every year, ranging from the world’s fastest Cabriolet to, for a fleeting moment, the world’s fastest street legal car with its own GT9 supercar.
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