9ff WCF Test Drive: 9ff TCR-84


9ff is a German car tuning company based in Dortmund. It was founded by Jan Fatthauer in 2001. It specializes in converting stock Porsches into street legal racing vehicles, either as fully tuned cars, or by selling individual parts or kits. The company is best known for building one of the first cars to exceed 400 km/h (249 mph), the GT9, capable of 256 mph (412 km/h). The former company, 9ff Fahrzeugtechnik GmbH, filed for bankruptcy in September 2013. A new company, 9ff Engineering GmbH was founded in October 2013. Official website: 9ff

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WCF Test Drive: 9ff TCR-84
World Record 238mph

Sometimes words just fall hopelessly short of explaining the force on offer from a car, and after the last of a series of 150mph runs in 9ff’s TCR-84, shaking hands and the need to sit down was all that company boss Jan Fatthauer needed to see.

It might look like a bog standard 997 Carrera 4S Cabriolet, but there is something deeply sinister lying under the hood – an 840bhp twin turbo engine for instance. Since our test drive it went on to break the record and become the fastest soft-top in the world at Nardo, too, cracking a simply insane 238mph.

Full article @ WCF here...
 

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