Up until recently, Porsche restoration shops like the renowned Singer Vehicle Design had only worked with the older, air-cooled 911 generations. A new trend is now emerging as a German company known as Edit Automotive have announced building 99 supercars with the relatively recent 911 (997) at their base.
The 997 generation emerged in 2004, got its facelift in 2008 and only left the assembly lines 10 years ago. Despite this, the company still deemed it fit for a restoration project. For starters, the entire car gets disassembled, including the engine, and all components showing signs of wear get replaced.
The body is then rebuilt using custom-fabricated carbon parts. The front end gets a new bumper with laconically styled air intakes and blacked-oud LED headlights. The side view reveals new forged wheels and little else, but the rear is where things get wild. The tuner goes for a highly experimental design here, removing the ducktail spoiler and aligning the rear windshield with the engine lid into one continuous surface. The result looks minimalist and may admittedly take getting used to.
The engine bay receives new cylinder liners and IMS bearings, but otherwise remains stock. Depending on the specific 997 modification, the output can be either 325 or 408 PS (321 or 402 hp; 240 or 300 kW, respectively). The customers can choose between manual and PDK for transmission.
Buying the car, which is known as the Edit G11, is a matter of €170,000 before options. A mint Porsche 992 Carrera 4 GTS costs about the same amount.