Sportec SP700.

Sportec is a well-reputed Porsche tuner based in Germany. It also tunes Audis, with a notable example being the Sportec RS600--a 600hp version of the RS6. This Post, however, is about one of its craziest creations, the SP700. This is a modified Porsche 911 GT2 (remember my Display Name and the Post below?). As you probably guessed, the car makes 700hp (at 7100 rpms) and also 568 lb-ft of torque (at 4250 rpms). Factor in the stock GT2's curb weight of 3131, and you come up with a power to weight ratio of 4.5. That number, by the by, puts the SP700 6th place on my power to weight ratio list [behind the F50 GT (2.7), ME Four-Twelve (3.4), Autothority Stage IV Porsche 911 GT2 (4.2), Koenigsegg CCR (4.4), and tied with the almighty McClaren F1 (also 4.5)]. Now just think of ANY other road car you can imagine that I didn't just name, and the SP700 has a better power to weight ratio. ANY car. In case you were wondering what you do to a car that has 477 hp stock (2004 model) to increase that number by nearly 50%, you install a new ECU, new intercoolers, new turbos, titanium connecting rods (those little components might be the coolest mod in my opinion), new camshafts and more. The car has monster 19s (315/25 in the rear). Somehow the SP700 is able to defy the laws of physics and only slightly spins the tires when you rev it to 5k and drop the clutch. I still have a hard time believing that. Here are some performance numbers: 0-60 mph in 3.2 seconds; 0-100 in less than 7 seconds [you'll recall this puts it AHEAD of all three of the "supercars" from my earlier Post]; and Sportec claims a top speed of 217, which sounds completely realistic to me. Sam Mitani (R&T) wrote about this car, "Around town, the SP was a delight. At less extreme speeds, it was as comfortable and easy to drive as a stock 911." This is why I love Porsches. This is why Porsches are my favorite cars. Would you want to "live" with a 700hp Viper SRT-10? Would you want to "live" with a 700+ hp Ferrari? I don't think I would. And yet, this SP700 is completely civil and livable even though it puts up numbers that literally only a handful of cars in the world can match. Porsche knows how to make great cars. Oh yeah, the price for this Teutonic torpedo? $275,000.

I posted two pictures of Sportec Porsches below.

The link to the article where most of this information was gleaned from is below (also has some additional pics):
http://www.roadandtrack.com/article.asp?section_id=12&article_id=856&page_number=1