Fastest
street car: The Maxximus G-Force sets new world records
BEVERLY HILLS, CA, USA -- During a press
conference at the Peninsula
Hotel in Beverly Hills, Hope
Dworaczyk, the Playmate of the Year, will unveil today
the refurbished and re-designed Maxximus G-Force car,
The World's Fastest Car, which achieved new world
records on the Palm Beach Inl't raceway:
- Fastest street car from 0-60 MPH
2.0 sec;
- Fastest street car from 0-150 MPH
9.3 sec;
- Fastest street car Quarter mile 157.85*
- Fastest street car Quarter mile E/T 9.713*
*Updated Oct 2012
The Maxximus G-Force, The
World's Fastest Car is a street legal car, with air
conditioning, leather interior, navigation system and audio
system, all sitting on top of a twin turbo, 7-liter V8, 1600hp.
Marlon Kirby, the designer behind
the Maxximus
G-Force, has been a speed demon since infancy.
On December 23rd, 2009, at the Palm
Beach International Raceway, Maxximus G-Force,The World's Fastest Car set two new World
records. The car was driven by Marlon Kirby.
The records broken were:
- 0- 60 mph: 2.0 seconds, breaking his
old WWR of 2.134 seconds.
- 0-150 mph: 9.3 seconds
- Fastest street car Quarter mile 157.85*
- Fastest street car Quarter mile E/T 9.713* *Updated Oct 2012
The
team: Marlon Kirby; Scott Baker; Jeff Hall; John Heuer. In
every case Marlon was driving.
Says Marlon Kirby, the designer
behind the Fastest
Car in The World: "And now that we’ve gone this
far, we have to do it again – beat our own records with a
bigger and faster car. This car is All-American, so we are
plan to win those new records after a conversion to natural
gas."
The new world records were sponsored by:
DMP Awnings; Earl's Indy; Glare; Pit-Pro; Safety Kleen; Tial
Sport.
David
Bruce McMahan (left) and Marlon
Kirby had a dream: to build a monstrous record-breaking
car with an engine producing over 1,600 hp.
Four years and thousands of man-hours later,
it's here: twin turbos on a 7-liter Chevy V8 on a custom built,
three-speed, street-legal car, complete with air conditioning,
leather interior, navigation system and other amenities.
