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Say hello to KITT’s evil twin! Want deze Pontiac Trans-Am uit 1987 is namelijk officieel de snelste road legal auto in europa. Zeker omdat het record van de Veyron niet officieel is (blijkbaar). De Trans-Am is onderhuids ingrijpend verbouwd door het Noorse Polly Motorsport en heeft nu maar liefst 1.407 pk (8.9 liter V8)! En 0-100? In slechts 2,23 seconden!
En onlangs zijn de Noren afgereisd naar het Duitse Papenburg om daar de topsnelheid even te testen. De toevallig aanwezige AMG-ingenieurs deden het in hun broek van het lachen toen ze deze stokoude Trans-Am aan zagen komen. Maar toen er eenmaal gas werd gegeven verging het lachen hun heel snel!
Wat prestaties?
0-100 km/u: 2,23 sec
0-200 km/u: 5,55 sec
0-300 km/u: 12,22 sec
0-201m: 5,91 sec – 205 km/u
0-402m: 9,19 sec-202 km/u
60 ft: 1,45 sec
PS: In potentie zou de Trans-Am zelfs een topsnelheid van 435 km/u moeten kunnen halen. Maar de testbaan was helaas te kort. Maar in 2009 gaan ze naar Amerika om het record scherper te stellen!
En om het geheel in perspectief te plaatsen, hieronder een video van de recordrun!

Subject: Fastest street legal official road car in Europe!
A 1987 Trans Am fastest official street legal road car in Europe!
Paul brought his Pontiac to the Papenburg car testing track, one of the newest and most advanced test tracks in the world. Mercedes where 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.
Tags: maximumsnelheid, pontiac, record
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