The world isn't short of 911 restomods - how does the European RS stack up?
The world isn't short of 911 restomods - how does the European RS stack up?In the restomod world generally and most certainly the 911 sphere, you have to stand out. Something has to make your painstakingly re-engineered Porsche unique among the pack, to make it more worthy of spending hundreds of thousands on than the rest. Because let’s be honest: everyone from Kamm to Theon will make rear-engined Porsches that look fantastic and drive even better.
It definitely looks it, evoking the old school but with a more modern take on proportions. It’s so wide, so low, so aggressive, almost square in its stance, really channelling the RSR and various wild 911s from back in the day. However, this being a restomod rather than pure race car, there are some lovely details as well, including underbonnet bracing, the carbon skinned doors that feel as light as hymn sheets and the titanium rocket launcher finishers for the Inconel exhaust.
Such is the attention to detail of the build that even the wub-wub-wub of the idle has been designed, ensuring a motorsport feel from the off. And where later 911s ensure that feeling ebbs away fairly quickly, the RS seems like every inch the road racer with unassisted steering and a tricky clutch. You don’t have to concentrate on every mile so much as every manoeuvre.
Opportunities to drive the RS a bit faster are utterly absorbing - there can’t be much with a roof and supposedly less than 400hp more thrilling. The engine maybe doesn’t scream like a Mezger flat-six, but the metallic, raucous, booming howl as it nears 8,000rpm is almost as exciting. To feel a car this compact and light accelerate so ferociously is addictive, too, hurled along by the torque at middling revs and feral by peak power at 7,700rpm or so.
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