Singer Vehicle Design is known across the automotive industry for transforming one of the most cherished sports car icons: the Porsche 911. Each Singer commission starts life as a 964-generation Porsche 911, and its transformation combines purist driving character, modern luxury and convenience, artisan craftsmanship, bespoke design, and compelling performance. However, a new partnership with Red Bull Advanced Technologies, Red Bull’s high-performance engineering division, seeks to make the open-top variants of Singer commissions even better.
Already, Singer’s process of restoring a 964 Porsche 911 Cabriolet or Targa model is painstaking, involving a careful disassembly to the point where the steel monocoque is revealed. It’s at that point where Red Bull Advanced Technologies and Singer are joining forces, with world-class simulation and structural analysis capabilities.
Together, Red Bull and Singer used scans and manual measurements to digitally model the 964 chassis, used Finite Element Analysis software to determine the torsional stiffness of different parts of the car both with and without its roof, and used the insight gained from the measurements to create carbon fiber formations to reinforce the hardest working parts and maintain the 964’s original integrity and packaging requirements.
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After a prototype vehicle with the reinforcing structures was built and tested to validate the analysis work, the 13 carbon fiber structures developed by Red Bull Advanced Technologies, which are bonded to the chassis during the restoration process, increase the torsional rigidity of the car is increased by an impressive 175 percent, which benefits the handling, braking, and overall driving quality of open-top restorations to closer match the performance of the coupe. With two engineering titans coming together, the modernized classics from Singer Vehicle Design are even better thanks to Red Bull Advanced Technologies.
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