Articles about Singer

The legendary whale tail remains intact. But of course

A legend. Reimagined. You know what the whale-tail spoiler represents, what you're looking at here, but let's savor these words. This, ladies and gentleman, is the Turbo Study, Singer's latest celebration of the Porsche 911."It's always

To Singer’s own specifications

Porsche is to build engines for Singer. Sounds rhetorical almost, seeing as the restored cars obviously use Porsche flat-six engines in the first place. But this arrangement sees Porsche Motorsport North America assemble engines for Singer, to Singer's own specifications.

There’s not one of the beautifully restored air-cooled Porsche 911s left

Fans of inordinately desirable old air-cooled Porsche 911s with inordinate amounts of disposable income, we bring sad tidings. Singer has sold every single one of its Design and Lightweighting Study cars.Ahead of a debut for a client's DLS car

Whatever it costs, it’s worth it

An air-cooled flat-six behaving with such savagery and intensity and reaction and precision-and delivering such an intoxicating noise-that you drive it and are instantly convinced this is it, the zenith, the best road-going internal combustion engine mankind

Eagle, Alfaholics, Singer, GTO, Bond’s DB5—they all contain lessons modern supercars can learn from

I have a recurring dream in which the chief engineer of the latest pointless 800hp supercar is standing there, telling me how great his new creation is. "Zero to 240kph in seven seconds, 370k top speed, Inconel headrests, blah blah." My face

It has shot up near the top of our list of favorite reimagined Porsche 911s

It's safe to say that 2021 appears to be broadly picking up where 2020 left off. But when the car world's first big reveal of the year is the Singer All-Terrain Concept Study (ACS), it appears to be doing

It’s the All-Terrain Concept Study, based on the 964-gen 911

Question: What's better than a reimagined Porsche 911 from Californian air-cooled fetishists, Singer?Answer: One of Singer's reimagined 911s that's capable of bossing the Baja 1000 or Dakar Rally, and looks like the result of a 964 having

It also has a 4.0-liter flat-six and AWD, in case you want to talk performance

Singer Vehicle Design has been restoring and modifying classic Porsche 911s-964-generation models, to be exact-for more than a decade now. It has produced quite the number of astonishing setups over the years, one of which Top Gear recognized as

Just look at it

Describing sound in all its mellifluous detail with a keyboard is, by its very nature, a fool's errand. Oh, car journalists will try. We'll crack open our well-worn box of buzzwords-zing, burble, gargle, wail... occasionally a buttery thunder-

Rob Dickinson's life in cars

I was born in Norwich, and grew up by the cliffs. I knew there was a big world out there, and I saw rock 'n' roll as my way out. My cousin [Iron Maiden singer Bruce] had made the career choice semi-

With a 9,000rpm redline

Something wicked this way comes.. and it's coming from the direction of one of Top Gear's favorite 're-imagineers' of Porsche 911s: Singer Vehicle Design. And Williams Advanced Engineering, part of Williams Grand Prix Engineering Group.It would seem that

This is where we're headed

1) Electric turbochargers - There's been lots of talk about electric turbocharging, especially from Audi, but 2016 was the year that they actually started to sound real. Essentially, it's exactly what it says on the tin-an electrically-driven turbocharger that

Each photo is wallpaper-worthy

The Porsche 911 reimagined by Singer ought to be a car you're familiar with. There have been numerous versions of the Singer-reimagined 911 now, all of them named after the home of their creator. And just in time for the

For those who miss air-cooled 911s

Singer Vehicle Design (SVD) has partnered with motorsport engineering outfit Cosworth and composite expert Aria Group to bring Singer's take on the iconic, air-cooled Porsche 911 closer to production."We are thrilled to be involved with these incredible companies, who