"So Matt, how was driving the Sport Classic in Germany?", a friend asks as I painstakingly return to reality. My answer: "Germany's nice and all and the car, well it's just, just, simply put, you see, understand that, well, you know, it's...". The Sport Classic is to die for.
If you're one of the peeps out there that are telling themselves that "it's only like the 3 billionth special-edition 911 in the last year, who cares", you are being a hater and the bus for Hatesville is leaving, so get on it.
Now that the housecleaning is done, let's get down to business. The 911 Sport Classic is a concentrated mix of the 911's most historic and classic styling cues rolled into one delectable piece of stunning German bodywork. I like.
From a distance, you'd be fooled into thinking that this is just a regular 911 Carrera. The first pictures I sent over the web had colleagues thinking that it was a white Carrera 4 with a weird appendage sticking out from the bootlid. Fools!
The Sport Classic is in fact based on the Carrera 4S' wider body, but drops the AWD, using only the rear wheels for motion. Beyond this point, it is difficult to know where to start pointing out all the items that make the Sport Classic such a unique car. Let's go from ground up.
Yes, those are the famed Fuchs wheels and this is the car that reintroduced them. In this application, they are 19" in size and sport 305-wide rear rubber. Fuchs wheels first landed on a 911 in 1966, 45 years ago. The car's colour, aptly named Sport Classic grey, is deep and creamy and includes two subtle centre stripes in a darker shade of grey which run alongside the double-dome roof. Looks like I screwed my ground-up plan...
At both ends, the car receives specific touches. Out back, the bumper is unique, as are the tailpipes. The large-bore chromed exhaust finishers are the only flashy bits about the car. Well, almost. Up front, the lower chin spoiler is particular to the Sport Classic. Another throwback touch are the black headlight surrounds reminiscent of the ones found on the 1974 911 Carrera RSR. Very nice!
If you're one of the peeps out there that are telling themselves that "it's only like the 3 billionth special-edition 911 in the last year, who cares", you are being a hater and the bus for Hatesville is leaving, so get on it.
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| The Sport Classic is in fact based on the Carrera 4S' wider body, but drops the AWD, using only the rear wheels for motion. (Photo: Mathieu St-Pierre/Auto123.com) |
Now that the housecleaning is done, let's get down to business. The 911 Sport Classic is a concentrated mix of the 911's most historic and classic styling cues rolled into one delectable piece of stunning German bodywork. I like.
From a distance, you'd be fooled into thinking that this is just a regular 911 Carrera. The first pictures I sent over the web had colleagues thinking that it was a white Carrera 4 with a weird appendage sticking out from the bootlid. Fools!
The Sport Classic is in fact based on the Carrera 4S' wider body, but drops the AWD, using only the rear wheels for motion. Beyond this point, it is difficult to know where to start pointing out all the items that make the Sport Classic such a unique car. Let's go from ground up.
Yes, those are the famed Fuchs wheels and this is the car that reintroduced them. In this application, they are 19" in size and sport 305-wide rear rubber. Fuchs wheels first landed on a 911 in 1966, 45 years ago. The car's colour, aptly named Sport Classic grey, is deep and creamy and includes two subtle centre stripes in a darker shade of grey which run alongside the double-dome roof. Looks like I screwed my ground-up plan...
At both ends, the car receives specific touches. Out back, the bumper is unique, as are the tailpipes. The large-bore chromed exhaust finishers are the only flashy bits about the car. Well, almost. Up front, the lower chin spoiler is particular to the Sport Classic. Another throwback touch are the black headlight surrounds reminiscent of the ones found on the 1974 911 Carrera RSR. Very nice!