REVEALED: SINGER’S NEW ERA Turbo Study

“Everything’s been touched, but at the same time it has to feel sincere to the original 930”

Rob Dickinson, founder of the California-based Singer Vehicle Design, still remembers his first ride in a Porsche 911, as a wide-eyed 11-year-old back in 1976. “It was a black 930 Turbo with red tartan seats which left me dry-mouthed and speechless,” he says of Porsche’s first ever turbocharged road car, which at that point was only a year old.

Goodness knows what the young Rob would make of the Turbo Study that his older self has just unleashed on the world. Rather incredibly, this is the first time he’s worked Singer’s magic on a road-going turbocharged 911 (the turbocharged ACS is for off-road competition), and its ‘third act’ following the Classic series and DLS models.

“The DLS project took the normally aspirated air-cooled engine to its natural apogee, and now I think the time is right to move to the other aspect that’s synonymous with Porsche, the turbo engine, and celebrate arguably the most important 911