2022 Singer Turbo Study
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Tastefully done but i'm so bored of retro'd and re-imagined 911s now.
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Me too.
It's time they move onto the 986 chassis so I can watch the value of mine go to the moon.
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It's gorgeous, but when I see the owner specified a "carbon-ceramic braking system" for a car they're going to drive on the road rather than a as a track day special, you know the owner has more money than sense. It's almost certain this Porsche is going to end up wadded into the back of a Kia Sorento because the brakes weren't warm enough to stop the car during a typical freeway slowdown.
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I wish Singer would come up with a better way of modernising the classic 911 headlights. These always look goofy to me.
Keef
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A bit goofy but I think they're aiming for elegance and simplicity. Many OEMs' headlights these days are overcomplicated jewelry that can actually be distracting from the design, especially in cases like Porsche or BMW where the basic headlight shape has always been a controlling factor in the overall design. For example, Porsche's new concept car headlights that are just four little slits...they're just wrong. Those cars have very little Porsche DNA in them because the core design principles have disappeared. Even their current road cars are sort of reaching by packing all sorts of nonsense inside the little round headlight housing. But at least they're still round I suppose, unlike what BMW and Mercedes are doing.
My favorite part about Singers is that nothing about the design is particularly attention-grabbing. It's just nice and calm and elegant. How well every aspect of the design works together is mesmerizing in person honestly. Nothing is overdone, they're basically perfect. In fact I think their recent carbon fiber version is a hideous monstrosity with far too much going on, similar to how Aston Martin's big-power versions get progressively uglier than the smooth and pretty base models.
My favorite part about Singers is that nothing about the design is particularly attention-grabbing. It's just nice and calm and elegant. How well every aspect of the design works together is mesmerizing in person honestly. Nothing is overdone, they're basically perfect. In fact I think their recent carbon fiber version is a hideous monstrosity with far too much going on, similar to how Aston Martin's big-power versions get progressively uglier than the smooth and pretty base models.
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I'm hoping that Singer's immense rise and kind of universal adulation will trigger a change in how the legacy premium car makers approach design. There is clearly a very solid business case for clean, classically beautiful, well resolved, and fantastically detailed high end cars that don't have permanent grimace face.
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Maybe so. I just don’t know if I’d be willing to risk my half million dollar bespoke supercar on brakes that are “fairly comparable with steelies these days.”
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That's just sexy. I need it in my life. Yesterday.
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- TexRex72
Or just not.
I appreciate the take on accordion bumpers and the gravel guards turned intakes. The interior is gorgeous.
The engine compartment is a little sanitary for my liking; I get that it's going to change hands for some ungodly sum and cleanliness is important, but I'd personally prefer some mechanical bits be exposed. Oh and let's get an intercooler under that whaletail.
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I actually didn't even notice the "accordion" treatment until you mentioned it. The gravel guards are genius, you're right. As for the engine, their NA offerings are very mechanical...I guess this is just the nature of a turbo engine. Gotta have that plenum I suppose. I do much prefer the NA engine display.
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I was mainly referring to the beige ******** you'd expect to find under the hood of a Lexus, but I'd never seen under the lid of their n/a cars and getting rid of that just gives them the opportunity to stuff garish diamond pleat under there in its place.I actually didn't even notice the "accordion" treatment until you mentioned it. The gravel guards are genius, you're right. As for the engine, their NA offerings are very mechanical...I guess this is just the nature of a turbo engine. Gotta have that plenum I suppose. I do much prefer the NA engine display.
Maybe they've got some trick tuned horns under those plenums and they're necessarily bulky, but there's still plenty of real estate under the whaletail that the motor can visually breathe if they just canned the extraneous bits.
There's a lot of stuff under the lid of a standard 964 Turbo, of course, but I think there's plenty of opportunity to stash necessary bits like they've done on their n/a cars so that the essentials can be appreciated.
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F-in hell, it has quilted leather in the engine bay lining.I actually didn't even notice the "accordion" treatment until you mentioned it. The gravel guards are genius, you're right. As for the engine, their NA offerings are very mechanical...I guess this is just the nature of a turbo engine. Gotta have that plenum I suppose. I do much prefer the NA engine display.
