The Singer DLS Turbo is a modern version of the 1970s Porsche 934/5 endurance races. Singer’s most recent custom-built cars are based on the Porsche 911. They have a vast carbon-fibre body, a 700-hp 3.8-liter flat-six engine with twin turbos, and a manual gearbox. Singer makes the DLS Turbo with parts for the track or the road. The features of the way include a big back wing. Porsche 911 cars that don’t have turbochargers now cost more. Still, copies with “Turbo” written on the back are rarely seen. Porsche wasn’t the first company to use turbocharging in race cars and cars for the road, but it was by far the most successful. In 1977, the owner of a Porsche 930 could drive their whale-tailed grand tourer to all eight SCCA Trans American series races and watch the racing version of their road car win six times. The singer is a well-known business that fixes up Porsches. They just came out with a brand-new design that combines both to capture the spirit of a 911 Turbo. 934/5 A New Start Singer, as usual, stresses that it is not a niche maker like RUF or Alpina but rather wants to change what the ultimate Porsche 911 might be. The company, which started in 2009, has a lot of competitors, but possibly none of them are real. In the world of vintage Porsche 911s, where money isn’t an issue, a Singerized Porsche is the bar that other people try to reach. Two brand-new cars are trying to raise the bar in the high ionosphere. It was made to salute the Porsche 934/5 racing cars, which were the best at endurance racing. Being light and moving The word “study” makes you think of a chapter from a book on flight engineering, but the experience is more like the Top movie Gun: Maverick. In 2018, a Williams Advanced Engineering 4.0-liter flat-six engine and new carbon materials were used to make the first DLS. Each valve in that engine, which produced 500 horsepower at 9300 turns per minute, cost $30,000, which was one of many very unpleasant facts. The DLS cost $1.8 million, but the limited number of units sold out quickly. Singer also made a new version of the Porsche 911 Turbo last year that was more forgiving than the old ones. The coupe and a later cabriolet model with 510 hp were meant to be big tourers like the first 911 Turbo. They both had 450 horsepower flat-six turbocharged engines that were 3.8 litres in size and had a lot of torque. In the 1970s, a six-speed manual had four forward gears. Now, a six-speed manual has six forward gears. A path or a road? The new DLS Turbo, whose name sounds like a game mouse, has the hard-core design of the rebuilt 911 made for F1 racing and the vast power from forced induction. The Blood Orange track-focused and Moet Black road-focused vehicles have a new 3.8-liter twin-turbo flat-six engine with an air-to-water intercooler and electric wastegates. At speeds of more than 9000 rpm, it makes about 700 horsepower. The early Singer restorations were about finding small details, but the two DLS Turbo models are as wild as possible. Large rear fenders stick out, which reminds me of IMSA and Le Mans cars from the 1970s. The vehicle for the track has a box-wing spoiler, and the car for the road has a duckbill spoiler. Both vehicles look very strange, though. The best comparison is the Kremer K3 Strasse, ordered by F1 team owner Walter Wolf in 1980. On the other hand, the singer’s DLS Turbo will be made with the same care as all of its other works. This is in contrast to the crazy car with nearly 800 horsepower that ate two rear tires every hundred miles and only had air conditioning for the driver. So, even though these cars cost a lot of money, they are expected to be driven. Even though the 911 Turbo, especially the racing form, is now a trendy car, Porsche set itself apart from the Italian exotics by making cars built to last. One of the 911s that has been driven the most miles is a 1976 Porsche 930 sold in Canada and now owned by Bill MacEachern of Toronto, Ontario. It has gone almost 800,000 kilometres so far. These crazy Singer-restored Porsche 911s are a mix of a road car and an endurance racer. The standard has been raised, and the bar has been moved up.
