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Origins
Jan Fatthauer's 9ff of Dortmund specialised in making Porsches faster than Stuttgart intended, and the GT9 of 2007 was the thesis at maximum: a 911 silhouette re-engineered around a mid-mounted twin-turbo flat-six — moved from the tail for high-speed stability — targeting and claiming runs beyond 400 km/h, with the GT9-R version rated to 1,120 horsepower and a professed 414 km/h ceiling that challenged Bugatti's Veyron on a tuner's budget. Around 150 GT9-family cars were planned; far fewer emerged as the company navigated 2010s insolvency and reformation. The GT9 crystallised the German tuner-constructor moment — when autobahn culture, turbocharging expertise and one obsessive engineer could produce a genuine velocity rival to any factory on earth.
EMS 2011 · Neuwieser from Germany · CC BY-SA 2.0
