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Written by Rowan Horncastle
New-old is an incredibly fashionable flavour of car currently. Depending on your palate, there are many terms for it; Continuation", Sanction II", Born Again" and even outlaw Restomods". The notion is simple: vintage looks, squeaky clean running gear. And people obviously have an appetite for it. Especially rich people. But having seen its own cars heavily involved in the scene, Porsche is getting in on the act itself for Pebble Beach, with a one-off collector"s item 911 Turbo S from the 993 generation. Now, as you probably well know, the 993 was the generation of 911 sandwiched between the 964 and 996. It was the last air-cooled 911. One that was in production from 1994 to 1998 and a car Porschephiles eagerly start frothing over. Especially the one Porsche"s classic department decided to resurrect, the 993 Turbo S. Using over 6,500 genuine new parts from Porsche"s archives and an original bodyshell, the folks over in Stuttgart have spent the last year-and-a-half building a brand-new 20-year-old Turbo S. Featuring a fresh 3.6-litre twin-turbo flat-six with 450bhp, a period-correct manual transmission and four-wheel drive, it"s like a Blue Peter garden time capsule gift from the mid-nineties, just without all the digging.
Date written: 24 Aug 2018
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 13059
New-old is an incredibly fashionable flavour of car currently. Depending on your palate, there are many terms for it; Continuation", Sanction II", Born Again" and even outlaw Restomods". The notion is simple: vintage looks, squeaky clean running gear. And people obviously have an appetite for it. Especially rich people. But having seen its own cars heavily involved in the scene, Porsche is getting in on the act itself for Pebble Beach, with a one-off collector"s item 911 Turbo S from the 993 generation. Now, as you probably well know, the 993 was the generation of 911 sandwiched between the 964 and 996. It was the last air-cooled 911. One that was in production from 1994 to 1998 and a car Porschephiles eagerly start frothing over. Especially the one Porsche"s classic department decided to resurrect, the 993 Turbo S. Using over 6,500 genuine new parts from Porsche"s archives and an original bodyshell, the folks over in Stuttgart have spent the last year-and-a-half building a brand-new 20-year-old Turbo S. Featuring a fresh 3.6-litre twin-turbo flat-six with 450bhp, a period-correct manual transmission and four-wheel drive, it"s like a Blue Peter garden time capsule gift from the mid-nineties, just without all the digging.
Date written: 24 Aug 2018
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 13059