{"id":1869136,"date":"2026-04-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1869136"},"modified":"2026-04-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T21:00:00","slug":"is-the-porsche-911-carrera-cabriolet-reimagined-by-singer-a-hit-or-a-miss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1869136","title":{"rendered":"Is the Porsche 911 Carrera Cabriolet Reimagined by Singer a hit or a miss?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tom Ford: TG\u2019s associate editor is bored of the Singer negativity<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Backlash. Suddenly it\u2019s not \u2018cool\u2019 to like Singerised Porsche 911s; but that\u2019s the automotive world for you. And I do get it with the DLS Turbo and big winged stuff. For me, Singer as a company has always been about the edit, the detail, the thought.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s what we\u2019ve got here; a 964 with a better roof mechanism, an interesting profile, a nat-asp, 420bhp Cosworth-fettled flat six that\u2019s going to be fired straight down your earholes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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This is where Singer does its best work when it reimagines a 911 (of any stripe). The subtlety of working out why that 911 looks so good, and whether or not it actually is a Singer. That\u2019s this kind of car.<\/p>\n

Ollie Kew: TG\u2019s deputy editor has well and truly had his fill of Singers<\/strong><\/h3>\n

At last! I\u2019m officially cool, as I\u2019m sticking my head above the parapet to have a pop at a Singer. I can accept this is a beautifully executed machine. But for me, the Singers are simply coming too thick and fast. Turbos, DLS and DLS-Ts, Carrera Coupes and now Cabrios.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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I\u2019m sure I\u2019m not alone in preferring the original \u2018Classic Study\u2019 \u2013 the least caricatured, the purest, and quite simply the Singer, before each variant needed naming and explaining.<\/p>\n

The Classic works anywhere in the world too \u2013 this new drop-top should never set stretched tyre outside its native California. How do I know? Easy: apparently, I\u2019m unarguably cool.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tom Ford: TG\u2019s associate editor is bored of the Singer negativity Backlash. Suddenly it\u2019s not \u2018cool\u2019 to like Singerised Porsche 911s; but that\u2019s the automotive world for you. And I do get it with the DLS Turbo and big winged stuff. For me, Singer as a company has always been about the edit, the detail, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,237],"class_list":["post-1869136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-topgear-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1869136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1869136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1869136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1869136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}