Europe’s Fastest Street Legal Car Is A ….
December 24, 2008
Show up at any track with a car less than ordinary and you’re bound to get smirks of both disgust and pity. Some people don’t let it affect them, some pack up and go home in search of mummy, others give chase and some blow the competition away. That’s exactly what happen when Paul took his 1407hp Pontiac Trans-Am to the Papenburg track where the AMG boys from Mercedes were testing their new models. Here’s a synopsis written by Autoblog reader, Mitka, on what went down after the smirks and jeers faded:
Paul brought his Pontiac to the Papenburg car testing track, one of the newest and most advanced test tracks in the world. Mercedes were testing their new AMG sports models the same day as Pal was going for his personal speed record. Some engineers from AMG team criticized the optimistic Norwegian team for bringing an 80’s trimmed American car to this super test track for the advanced European supercars. But what they didn’t quite comprehend is that Pal Arvil Blytt and his Polly motorsport team from Norway works at a motor tuner garage in Godvik Norway and most important of all nothing more than the shell of this car resembles the stock Pontiac.
With a brisk 8.9L V8 producing a whopping 1407 HP, Pal was soon doing AMG top speeds of 300km/h in his warming laps. After driving a couple of rounds around the track, Paul felt ready to see what his road machine would do! And after pressing the pedal to the metal the ARP technician Christoph Tharrey came over with his laptop computer with a big grin. Here we have the official numbers: 407.134 km/h.
You may say well the 9FF team drove 409km/h in an extremely rebuilt Porsche 911 at the same track; this speed was recorded with their own equipment and therefore can be fixed and therefore is not recorded as an official speed record. Bugatti Veyron 407km/h is also recorded with their own equipment.
As the Papenburg track is to small for the Pontiac to reach its potential top speed of 435km/h and Volkswagen’s test track costs 25.000 Euro an hour to rent. Paul is bringing his road legal car to the US in 2009 to challenge Shelby supercars official record of 412km/h.
Visit Pollymotorsport for more info on the Norwegian tuner.
Source: AutoBlog
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hWj1p2wu4o
Sometimes some fast cars are tuned and built by very small workshops. Can see very clearly from out local sanctioned drag races. Its not necessary to say big shops can make a faster car. Its just that they have more access to better equipment thats all.
i love wiping off the smirks of conti-fanboys when i tell em my jap car can outgun most of their dream conti cars
banzai power! muahahaha