A road-legal Sonderwunsch one-off looks back to the radical 935/78 while remaining unmistakably modern.
A LOW-NOSE IDEA RETURNS.
Porsche describes the Flachbau RS as a road-legal one-off created through Sonderwunsch. Its visual reference is the 935/78, the famously extreme racing machine often remembered as “Moby Dick.”
“The right details turn information into a story worth remembering.”
HISTORY WITHOUT REPLICA.
The point is not to rebuild the original race car. It is to translate the long-tail, low-front visual drama into a contemporary commission with modern execution and road legality.
PRIMARY / OFFICIAL SOURCEPORSCHE NEWSROOM ↗
MOTOR CURRENT VERDICTThe strongest retro references work when they become a new object instead of a costume.
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SHOULD YOU CARE?Yes, because singular commissions often reveal which parts of a brand’s past still have creative energy.
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