Interview with the "strongest" fans of Porsche 9 1 1

A huge fan of 9 1 1 praised the "grand trip" of the old school when his company entered a new era.

Rob Dickinson

Founder of Singer Vehicle Design Company

According to my observation, many fans have been influenced by Porsche 9 1 1 to some extent, such as sitting in a car, watching a car fly by, or looking around a car in the parking lot. In this respect, Rob Dickinson, a musician and founder of Singer Vehicle Design Company, is no different from these fans. Of course, if anyone, like him, founded a company specializing in the maintenance and modification of various classic 9 1 1 models, he will definitely have this experience.

"At that time, on a highway in the south of France, my father introduced me to 9 1 1. Since then, my curiosity about this car has begun. " Dickinson recalled to us.

"Well, it wasn't long before I took a picture for the first time. It was an early black 3.0 Turbo, almost like an alien-I think it was the car of former King Hussein of Jordan-11I was shocked. I feel like I'm sitting in a rocket ship. "

These budding experiences established Dickinson's love for 9 1 1. Since 2009, he and his team in Singer Vehicle Design Company have been maintaining this innocence through a car 9 1 1 that they have repaired by themselves, but now they have started to work on a heavy fragment of the 9 1 1 gene, that is, Turbo. Dickinson said: "In the 1970s, a child's unique obsession inspired my imagination, but for us, in many ways, it was hardly a matter of course to pay tribute to Porsche's early 9 1 1 models with our cars made in California. The most admirable model, the classic of Porsche classics, is turbocharged-but it took us 65,438+02 years to get it ready. "

Spending a holiday abroad with her family and driving around in the Volkswagen Beetle made Dickinson feel the charm of "big trip": "Some cars we saw on the Riviera and when crossing France constituted a mixture of charm and gasoline, which was intoxicating."

These thoughts about grand travel help to explain why Singer Vehicle Design Company's new turbocharged products have become their most practical series models so far. Of course, they still have weapons-grade high speed, but the interior adopts new materials from top suppliers and considers how to design personalized interiors for different customers according to different lifestyles. Customers can even ask Singer to provide suspension settings that emphasize comfort, and Rob and his team are studying the use of adjustable shock absorbers on future Turbo.

"Obviously, the automobile world is undergoing a fundamental change now, but cars driven by internal combustion engines will not disappear overnight." Dickinson added.

"The idea of finding a way to optimize synthetic fuels is attractive because we obviously have an emotional connection with internal combustion engines."

In the short term, Singh's focus is to move all the production, design and R&D to a new building in California (previously, in Dickinson's words, these businesses were scattered in "seven different buildings around Los Angeles"), and stick to the original intention: to provide every customer with the best quality products. Dickinson said with a smile, "You can call this a propaganda cliche, but what makes people angry is that it is accurate."

"I am an unsatisfied person, so I always focus on ensuring that anything with a singer's name can meet our own execution and performance standards."

"As a founder, I have a clear concept of what it should mean to meet something marked Singer; As the executive chairman, I think my duty is to adhere to this vision and become the conscience of the company to some extent. " Dickinson concluded: "We have some very ambitious goals-we always have! If we continue to strive to achieve this goal through the pursuit of perfection and ensure that anything we touch can bring pleasure to people, whether they drive it or experience it in other ways, then we are on the right path. "

Only six questions that we can ask.

Tell us about your first car.

"The first time I drove my father's Opel azcona station wagon, it was a rear-wheel drive, but the first car I bought myself was the first generation Ford Fiesta."

What is your proudest achievement?

"Singer. We won the trust of hundreds of customers and influenced the automobile world. This achievement may be insignificant, but it is also exciting. "

What is the most interesting thing you have done in the car?

"In 20 19, my parents and I went to road trip for the last time in the south of France, and we once again visited countless scenic spots that I visited during my school holidays."

Have you ever screwed up?

"Our first batch of cars were G Series 9 1 1, and later we decided to use 964 as the basis for future repair business, so thousands of hours spent on conception and modeling in the early stage were wasted."

Do you like super sports cars or antique cars?

"I have a GT3 station wagon and an Austin Healy frog eye Sprite. So I like them both! "

A thorny question: what's the name of Singh's car 100?

"The Alabama Committee (a project commissioned by car collector Jay Renault) is a 4.0-liter hardtop car with atomic silver paint and blackberry interior."

Text/Translation/Jack groves/Shang