Maxximus G-Force: 1600 HP Ultima claims world's quickest car title
by Noah Joseph (RSS feed) on Feb 16th, 2009 at 12:27PM
How do you build the world's quickest car? Well, first you take one of the quickest cars already on the road, then you add more power and charge millions for each example. In this case, chauffer Marlon Kirby and financier David McMahan took the Ultima GTR – which already claims the fastest quarter-mile, 0-100-0, Nürburgring (almost) and Top Gear (unofficial) track times – and dropped in an all-aluminum 7.0-liter Chevy small-block V8 with twin turbochargers to bring the power rating up to 1600 horses, calling the resultant monster the Maxximus G-Force. All those ponies... Read More
