“We wanted to beat the 6min 57sec achieved by a Porsche 918 Spider at the Nürburgring Nordschleife,” says Jan Kalmar, originator of the Kalmar 9X9. “We’re quite confident we’re there.”
He’s talking about his latest creation, of which nine each will be built in three different specs, all of them wholly bespoke to customer requirements. The Kalmar 9X9 is very much a tribute to the Porsche 959. “We fail if we do not exceed what they achieved 40 years ago.” What it is not is a restomod. Instead, this is “the first retro hypercar that meets modern homologation requirements for the 27 EU member states”.
