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Volkswagen combined a prohibited induce shred in a late 1970s with a strange GTI. The car’s performance repertoire, however, did not include Ferrari-humbling limit speeds. GTI backer Jeremy Freedman set out to unquestionably erase this tip speed accountability with his Mk III. During final fall’s Texas Mile event, Freedman piloted his black 1997 GTI to the perceptibly plausible trap speed of 208.1 mph!

Remarkably, Freedman’s automobile is powered by a same VR6 engine and five-speed primer gearbox it left Wolfsburg with. They have been somewhat mutated, however, with a VR6 being non-stop up from 2.8 to 3.0-liters as well as turbocharged to a balance of 800 horsepower. More extraordinary is headlines which the gearbox internals have been been mostly inexperienced save for the beefier clutch and a further of the singular trip differential. (Those changes were compulsory to put which most energy to a ground by a front wheels.) Rather than disaster with a gearing, Freedman relied upon incomparable wheels and tires to regulate a last drive comparative measure so he could top 200 mph. You can check out video of Freedman’s record-setting run after a burst.

[Source: Eurotuner]