“Ten Years Of Faith” is the title of Porsche’s press release. Faith in what? The M96 engine’s ability to stay sealed for up to 15,000 miles? The residual value of normally-aspirated $130,000 convertibles? George Michael’s career? No, in this case it refers to the giant “leap of faith” Porsche took when they decided to enter the Chinese market.
To celebrate this trustafarian, er, profitarian, um, onanistic, no, wait, humanitarian effort, Porsche has released a limited edition of ten very special cars for the Chinese market. Warning: the images below the jump are not safe for human consumption.
Ah, yes, there’s something about the combination of gold and carbon fiber that simply enchants the legally blind. But do we have any obviously Photoshopped images of the car sitting majestically on a mountain somewhere? Why, yes we do!
I tell you what, if that doesn’t make you want to buy one, you must have been accidentally exposed to a college course on architecture or aesthetics.
A closer look:
You understand why it doesn’t say “turbo S” on it, right? Because its owners would end up calling it “TURBOS”.
I think that says it all. Pricing hasn’t been announced yet, but any Chinese customer with the requisite yuan might want to consider buying Saab. Not buying a Saab, mind you. Just buying Saab.
I’m way off topic, but in Kampala, Uganda there is Chinese restaurant with the name Golden Showers. I don’t know how the owner came up with the name, but we chose not to eat there.
As far as bling goes – it’s just the ticket for Beijing traffic.
I’ll bet all ten will be sold rather quickly and then stored by wealthy Chinese collectors.
Porsche got jealous of the (money made by the) fabricators of the one-offs in Brunei
http://jalopnik.com/#!5781765/the-sultan-of-bruneis-rotting-supercar-collection
It’s a turkey shoot, featuring a new species of Chinese turkey.
That photoshopped image of the 911 on a mountain is just atrocious. If Porsche wanted a photo of the car in a beautiful environment, they should have driven it there (or in the case of the FF, airlifted it there).
As for the color, that’s not gold. This is – a gold-plated 996 in Russia:
http://carscoop.blogspot.com/2008/07/gold-plated-porsche-911-cabriolet-in.html
A flat tipped screwdriver and a few minutes is all it takes to get a souvenir from that 911
A pile of gold paint shavings??
Looking at this, I feel as sad as the weeping Jesus in your picture. Whither Porsche? Looks like the marketing guys have usurped the engineers at Zuffenhausen.
Weeping Jesus?
I thought that was Baruth weeping!
What has been seen cannot be unseen.
The color in combination with those ‘fuchs’ wheels is actually not as bad as I would have expected. Some 911s from the 80s have a similar lightbeige looking color that kind of resembles it. The paint matched together with those hideous unpainted carbon bits is just plain wrong though.
I think a Carrera S in this color without the tacky (looking) add-ons would be quite acceptable looking. Still wouldn’t be my choice but arguably better than another silver 911.
When yu’ve said “911s from the 80s ” you’ve said it all.
Oh the horror. I thought Gold was for the 50th anniversary not the 10th? O wait, the 10th is TIN.
As shown in the image, “拾年” is supposed to mean “ten years.” Except it’s not a proper use. It should be “十年”.
The word “拾” means “pick up”. The only place it’s used as “ten” is bank note/currency. That’s because the correct word “十” (ten) can be easily modified to “千” (thousand). As a result, banks use temper-free heterographs for “十” and other numbers.
It’s like writing “eye” to represent “i” in case of confusion in a known context. But normally you can’t say “eye like it.”
Porsche should really hire more educated people.
Are you a first year Chinese student? Have you ever been to China? Porsche’s usage is correct.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_numbers#Standard_numbers
It shines like a shaft of gold, while all around is dark…
Also, BLACK GOOLLLLDDDDDD:
Amazing ‘stache at 0:12
These pictures look like they were airbrushed on the side of a Chevy van circa 1977.
But will there be a “Bandit” edition?
Congratulations, Jack….
Never thought I’d EVER see the word “onanistic” in ANY site…let alone TTAC.
Brought your A-game today, mate.
Peace, out.
What’s wrong with a black and gold (or champagne) car? The two colors complement each other well (works for Purdue and JPS). To be honest, the car would have looked better if they carried the carbon fiber look onto the roof and rear deck, but I’m not sure that I understand Jack’s aesthetic displeasure.
Go Boilers!
“These pictures look like they were airbrushed on the side of a Chevy van circa 1977.”
FTW! I thought they looked familiar. I guess you can’t go broke underestimating Chinese pop culture either.
That color looks vaguely familiar.. Did Porsche team up with Krylon?
The yellow calipers bother me more than the other crimes.
The warning was nice, but I looked anyway. Damn you Jack! Anyone know how to clean a visual cortex?
That’s not photoshopped.