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9ff GT9 Hits 254mph, Still Not World's Fastest Car

While 9ff have successfully topped the Bugatti Veyron's top speed of 252mph, they're still 1mph shy of the SSC Ultimate Aero TT's record. That must really sting. The 9ff GT9 will now go on sale, available for the bargain basement price of $854,000.

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9:40 AM on Fri May 9 2008
By Wes Siler
2,114 views, 44 comments

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Snow Day: SSC Ultimate Aero TT Not As Ugly As We Thought

Here's a picture of the actual Ultimate Aero TT that attempted to break the Veyron's "production car" top speed record but "only" achieved 230mph due to snow and bad roads in Nevada. Which is weird, because if you drive from Los Angeles to Vegas on Interstate 15 – which we may have done once or twice – you notice that on the California side it is a pitted, pot-holed two-lane mess but that the second you cross into bat country Nevada, gambling revenues convert the I-15 into the most perfectly paved, 4-lane mega-highway in all the desert. And it's 115 degrees. Oh, the car. Decked out in carbon-fiber-gray and black the Aero TT looks, dare I say, pretty good. A hell of a lot better than the blue and white iteration that the Postfather so wisely dubbed "dated." No, this car is a very modern pastiche of Murcielago, Zonda, S7 and Koenigseggeggeggeggeggegg with a little bit of Veyron up front for flavor. Full press release once you jump. – Jonny Lieberman More »

1:00 PM on Mon Mar 26 2007
By Jonny Lieberman
2,551 views, 10 comments

Latest by MeDuh: By Bugatti Royale to Veyron, i'm here. I'd like to defend the Diablo, as compared to the Countach, even in grade four in '94 ish and drawing wild wedges shaped things, it looked righter than the countach. But these guys had more »

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Hoon of the Day: Needle Pegging on Mepos

According to Wikipedia, Greece's Addiki Odos motorway "was designed under strict safety-related technical specifications, including a hard shoulder in either direction, traffic island, a high quality skid-resistant asphalt pavement, dense lighting and fencing." All of that in the name of safety. Sounds like a perfect venue for a three-camera shoot of a nightime run by a leather-suited shipping magnate and his sidekick Balki (we'd imagine), during which the speedo of the BMW M6 they were in became quite well acquainted with the number 340 (as in km/h, or 211 mph). According to the YouTube blurb, it was "Just to see how much crazy we Greeks are!" Much crazy, indeed, guys. Lay off the ouzo. [Thanks to Greg for the tip.] More »

12:00 PM on Tue Aug 22 2006
By Mike Spinelli
127 views, 1 comment

Latest by TexansAreHot: Open highway? Non-improvised moments of speeding? Crazy, man. Crazy... more »

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No, No Nanny: Top-Speed Limiter Remover for BMWs

They may have taken the Red Rocker reference we were almost bound by Jalopnik charter to make, but the boys at Bavarian Falcon found the item first, so we've got no blogethical right to it. Nonetheless, the device in question is a mod box that wrests top-speed from the BMW control nannies, sending the M5 into the upper reaches beyond the factory-issued 155mph. It's not available in the US, but in Europe it can be had for $649 — mere cents in Red Rocker bux. [Update: Damn our eyesight. It's available in the US from Turner Motorsport in Massachusetts] More »

12:30 PM on Wed Dec 28 2005
By Mike Spinelli
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