Russian Tuner Destroys Porsche 911 With Some Seriously Ugly Upgrades

What were they thinking?

Russian tuning house TopCar has been creating Porsche body kits for a few years now. And while not all are abhorrent abominations – its full-carbon Stinger GTR kit was actually pretty impressive – its latest creation, dubbed the 991.2 Stinger GTR gen 2 project, should have been killed at birth. Delivered to a customer in New Zealand who presumably goes by the name of ‘Jafaka’ the Porsche 911 stands in stark contrast with the Lamborghini Huracan its sat next to and we can’t figure out why the owner subjected his ride to such abuse.

Featuring a string of carbon-fiber add-ons including a custom hood, front and rear bumpers, GT3 RS inspired ducts, new side skirts and air intakes, and large rear wing, combined with a massive set of two-tone alloys, the yellow and black Porsche 911 Cabrio is sure to stand out for all the wrong reasons. Under the hood, TopCar is capable of tuning the engine to deliver up to 750 horsepower, coupled with better brakes and exhaust, but there’s no word on whether this particular model received any performance upgrades. Perhaps if we saw the car in a different color it wouldn’t offend our eyes so much, but as it stands, this is one hideous looking 911.

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GMP Performance Upgrades 911 Turbo

An American tuning firm from the heart of NASCAR country has upgraded output in a 911 Turbo Cabrio to 660 horsepower.

With the launch of the all-new 991 generation 911 Turbo set likely to take place next September at the Frankfurt Auto Show, aftermarket tuning firms are still making power and handling modifications to the outgoing generation, the 997 911 Turbo, which remains on sale until the new one arrives in showrooms. One of those firms is Charlotte, North Carolina, based GMP Performance who has just completed some custom work for a client on a one-of-a-kind 997 Turbo Cabrio.

Finished in GT Silver Metallic, this 911 Turbo was upgraded with a Bilstein coil over suspension, front ground control camber plates, a SpeedART exhaust with matte black tips, SpeedART header, an ECU upgrade and a racing performance clutch, amongst other mods. Mated to a six-speed manual gearbox, output from the 3.6-liter flat six is increased to a solid 660 horsepower (up from 493) and 700 lb-ft of torque. All told, some $30,000 was invested by its owner to turn this into one of the best performing aftermarket Turbos ever built.

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The 2019 Porsche 911 Cabriolet Drops Camouflage Revealing Track Upgrades

It could join the ranks of being one of the world’s few hybrid convertibles.

Earlier this week Porsche surprised us by letting one of its new 911 prototypes roam around in the snow without wearing any camouflage, much to the pleasure of our pesky prying spy photographers. Only thing is that there are three body styles of the 911, a coupe, cabrio, and targa, and the previous images only showed off the hard-top version of the sports car. Not so anymore as Porsche has just sent the second of those three models, the cabriolet, out into the wild for the same round of testing.

Like the coupe (and pretty much every other Porsche 911 ever), the new 911 looks almost identical to its predecessor. If it ain’t broke don't fix it right? Just like every Porsche before it, the changes made to this 911 are incremental, following Stuttgart’s tradition of a crawling slow-paced evolution. Different here is the hood, which creeps ever so close to the front bumper, kissing it without an impeding dividing section of front body panel. From what we can see, Porsche engineers really wanted to wring every ounce of track ability out of the chassis to make this 911 inexplicably better than the previous one. No manipulation of physics is made to accomplish this goal, though, just old fashioned tactics.

These include widening the car for more control in the corners and adding a massive active rear wing that runs the length of the rear end. New door handles complete the transition to the next 911 body while a larger rear apron houses four exhaust pipes, signifying that this cabriolet has the optional sport exhaust package. As with the coupe, the cabriolet could be one of the first 911s to get Porsche’s hybrid system which, as ironic as it seems, would continue the trend of having supercars like the Ferrari LaFerrari Aperta and Porsche 918 Spyder being some of the world’s only hybrid convertibles. The new 911 Cabriolet will hit the Frankfurt Motor Show in 2019 leaving, thanks to this naked mule, only its specifications as a mystery.

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