No question: The Porsche 911 with all its versions and offshoots developed for racing in several scales, is one of the most successfull modelcars in our shop; if not even of the whole industry. That is the reason why all manufacturer keep the interest always in flow. Spark, for example, provided two new variants of the nine eleven in Pink-Pig-Tribute-Livery and in scale 1:43, in last week's delivery: A 911 RSR of the Porsche GT-Team, with which Michael Christensen, Kevin Estre and Laurens Vanthoor achieved the win in the LMGTE-Pro Class at the 24 hours of Le Mans 2018; appeared under the item number S7033. A second Pink-Pig-Tribute-Modell makes up the Porsche 911 GT3 R from JRM Racing, with which Min Heng and Lin Nan have started at the China GT Championship in Shanghai 2018.
The model with the item number SA176 is limited to only 1000 pieces worldwide. Porsche has launched the set without official limitation, in which two record carriers are united under a showcase roof: With a record lap of 6:47.3 minutes, the Porsche 911 GT2 RS of the model year 2018 on the 20.6 kilometers of the Nürburgring Nordschleife a new best value for street-legal sports cars. The best time achieved on September 20th, 2017, in the presence of a notary exceeded even internal expectations, as Frank-Steffen Walliser - head of the Motorsport and GT vehicles department - told the press. Minichamps from Aachen produced the lizard-green Porsche 911 GT3 RS and the racing yellow nine eleven out of diecast and parked it in scale 1:43 in the showcase of the record-round set WAX02020087.
Model series 992: New 911 Carrera Cabriolet 2019
It corresponds with the optional Weissach package optics and equipment in which the record car has set and has cracked the record for street-legal sports cars. The 911 GT3 RS, however, also proved equipped with Weissach package on April 16th, 2018 with its time on the Nordschleife of 6:56.4 minutes as the fastest naturally aspirated 911 ever. A real must-have for fans of the Porsche 911 in its most powerful variants. At the end of this contribution to the beginning of the week, we jump further in time and land on the Porsche 911 series 992, to which Minichamps delivers the Carrera S Cabriolet 2019 in night blue metallic (WAP0201710K); like the aforementioned set in Porsche packaging.