After inflicting fairly a stir when pictures of a 911 GT1-esque automotive arriving at LAX went round on social media, UK agency Tuthill Porsche has launched the GT One. It is a tribute to the Porsche 911 GT1 race automotive of the late Nineteen Nineties with over 600 horsepower, a 2,645-pound curb weight, and a deliberate 22-car manufacturing run.
Tuthill Porsche is somewhat coy on what, precisely, the GT One is predicated on. (Or if it is primarily based on something in any respect.) The 1996 and 1997 911 GT1 used the entrance and middle part of a manufacturing 911 mated to a singular metal tubular rear taken off the 962 prototype. Maybe Tuthill is doing one thing comparable right here, as a result of the GT One is mid-engined, and fairly clearly not a 911 on the again.
What we do know is that its provided with a selection of 4.0-liter flat-sixes, both a high-revving 500-hp naturally aspirated flat-six just like the 11,000-rpm screamer Tuthill developed for its 911 Ok, or a 600-plus-hp flat-six with “compelled induction.” Tuthill Porsche would not specify whether or not the engine is turbo or supercharged, however we’ve to think about turbocharged, since individuals do not sometimes supercharge Porsche engines.
Tuthill Porsche
Tuthill Porsche
You possibly can have both a handbook, or within the case of the automotive seen right here, a dual-clutch transmission. The GT One has bespoke double-wishbone suspension entrance and rear, carbon-ceramic brakes, and a full FIA-spec roll cage. Bodywork is all carbon fiber, naturally, and the design is the work of California primarily based Florian Flatau, who’s beforehand executed work with Singer.
If you do not know Tuthill Porsche, you need to. It is a long-time rally and restoration store primarily based within the coronary heart of the UK’s “motorsports valley,” and it is just lately branched out into work with Singer and constructing its personal wild restomods.
Admittedly, the title is a bit odd, provided that the 911 GT1 raced in opposition to the Toyota GT-One in 1998. It is also one thing of a departure from the philosophy of the unique 911 GT1, which was a real homologation particular. A highway automotive as a result of it needed to be. Tuthill is fast to level out that the GT One is a highway automotive in the beginning, although it could develop an aero package for observe driving.
Tuthill Porsche hasn’t revealed pricing but, however one imagines it is so much, as is the way in which with this stuff. And hey, if you need a automotive that stands out amongst Porsche resto-mods, you can do a hell of so much worse than this.
