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Singer’s Turbo Study Revealed News | Total 911 Team | Rob Dickinson, founder of US-based Singer Vehicle Design, still remembers his first ever ride in a Porsche 911, as a wide-eyed 11-year-old back in 1976. ‘It was a black 930 Turbo with red tartan seats’ which ‘left me dry-mouthed and speechless,’ he says of Porsche’s first ever turbocharged road car, at that point only a year old.

965: the story of Porsche sub-959 supercar News | Total 911 Team | The early 1990s was something of a purple patch for performance cars. In 1989, Nissan launched the third-generation (R32) Skyline GT-R, a turbocharged giant-killer packed with motorsport hardware. A year later, Honda delivered the NSX, a visceral mid-engined supercar that was as docile to drive as a Civic. Then came the Ferrari F355, complete with the first production paddle-shift gearbox and a feral 8,500rpm V8.

Best of the base 911 Carrera News | Lee Sibley | Here at Total 911 we believe there is no such thing as a poor 911. We admire them all, and as motoring journalists we get particularly excited when new models are released. Porsche has spoiled us with many different model iterations – S, 4S GTS – and as owners we’ve become addicted to upgrading and going as high up the chain as possible, thereby moving away from the entry-level 911 Carrera.