Singer 911 on Top Gear
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Singer 911 on Top Gear
James May drives Singer on TG tonight
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Thank god it is him and not the big fat one.
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Re: Singer 911 on Top Gear
Looks awesome!
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New take on a back date, using a 964, instead of an Impact bumper?..........very nice!
Good write up here on it, bit more information than Top Gear gave
http://www.evo.co.uk/features/features/ ... inger.html
Good write up here on it, bit more information than Top Gear gave
http://www.evo.co.uk/features/features/ ... inger.html
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Singer 911 on Top Gear
It's a lovely car indeed but £280k
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It's a beautifully built car with a lot of lovely details & a great spec (tailored to the individual buyer) but there are a lot of other cars I'd rather buy for that price ...
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I know £280k is a lot of money, but its doesn't go very far once you're in the world of supercardom. The new Ferrari, McLaren and Porsche hybrid supercars are 3x that money and even Evo's recent roadtest Ferrari 458 was around that price, albeit with a load of carbon fibre doo-dah's.
Against that a bespoke Singer 911 looks quite sensible, and won't suffer from the sort of road envy that blights the UK.
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Against that a bespoke Singer 911 looks quite sensible, and won't suffer from the sort of road envy that blights the UK.
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I started to get it last night as it is a lovely car but give anybody on here £280k & 2-3 years & I beat they could produce 2-3 cars that what are as good. Plus as an investment in an untested market surely? In 10 years times what will be worth the most 911 73 RS or 911 Singer?shoestring7 wrote:Against that a bespoke Singer 911 looks quite sensible, and won't suffer from the sort of road envy that blights the UK.
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Depends how realistic you want to be. Pay yourself or a couple of engineers/technicians a decent wage to build it and your £280k won't stretch very far.
A full-house Tuthill hotrod like the Harris car must be a good £150k to reproduce and that was less developed than the Singer.
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A full-house Tuthill hotrod like the Harris car must be a good £150k to reproduce and that was less developed than the Singer.
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Depends how realistic you want to be. Pay yourself or a couple of engineers/technicians a decent wage to build it and your £280k won't stretch very far.
A full-house Tuthill hotrod like the Harris car must be a good £150k to reproduce and that was less developed than the Singer.
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A full-house Tuthill hotrod like the Harris car must be a good £150k to reproduce and that was less developed than the Singer.
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Re: Singer 911 on Top Gear
If you LOVE it buy it.
This goes for any car in those levels.
If you VALUE the money spent, by a classic something, or even a classic race car.
A Chevron B5 5 years ago was £70K.
today £200k, tomorrow?
The 911 RS we all know about.
The singer is fab, you can have it just like you want it, plain dials to snazzy interior, cool paint to wild I guess.
Lots of money for the cars today as the rich enjoy life. Cheap compared to the killa Lambo Hammond drove!
That Singer would have almost been lost in the crowd at the Silverstone record run, but the contempory Lambos 1/4 mile away were simply IN YOUR FACE, EVERY ONE OF THEM.
but that is what their owners want.
Fair dinkum to them.
This goes for any car in those levels.
If you VALUE the money spent, by a classic something, or even a classic race car.
A Chevron B5 5 years ago was £70K.
today £200k, tomorrow?
The 911 RS we all know about.
The singer is fab, you can have it just like you want it, plain dials to snazzy interior, cool paint to wild I guess.
Lots of money for the cars today as the rich enjoy life. Cheap compared to the killa Lambo Hammond drove!
That Singer would have almost been lost in the crowd at the Silverstone record run, but the contempory Lambos 1/4 mile away were simply IN YOUR FACE, EVERY ONE OF THEM.
but that is what their owners want.
Fair dinkum to them.
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Re: Singer 911 on Top Gear
If you LOVE it buy it.
This goes for any car in those levels.
If you VALUE the money spent, by a classic something, or even a classic race car.
A Chevron B5 5 years ago was £70K.
today £200k, tomorrow?
The 911 RS we all know about.
The singer is fab, you can have it just like you want it, plain dials to snazzy interior, cool paint to wild I guess.
Lots of money for the cars today as the rich enjoy life. Cheap compared to the killa Lambo Hammond drove!
That Singer would have almost been lost in the crowd at the Silverstone record run, but the contempory Lambos 1/4 mile away were simply IN YOUR FACE, EVERY ONE OF THEM.
but that is what their owners want.
This goes for any car in those levels.
If you VALUE the money spent, by a classic something, or even a classic race car.
A Chevron B5 5 years ago was £70K.
today £200k, tomorrow?
The 911 RS we all know about.
The singer is fab, you can have it just like you want it, plain dials to snazzy interior, cool paint to wild I guess.
Lots of money for the cars today as the rich enjoy life. Cheap compared to the killa Lambo Hammond drove!
That Singer would have almost been lost in the crowd at the Silverstone record run, but the contempory Lambos 1/4 mile away were simply IN YOUR FACE, EVERY ONE OF THEM.
but that is what their owners want.
73T 911 Coupe, road/hillclimber 3.2L
Lola t 492 / 3.2 hillclimb racer
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Re: Singer 911 on Top Gear
I personally loved it, best episode of top gear in ages! I think the singer is a great car, combining modern performance whilst retaining the styling and feel of an early car is not that difficult to do I guess but to do it really well is another matter.
You can tell there has been some serious thought, design, and development gone into that car and the initial development costs would have been huge, 280K is probably the least they could sell it for and still run a business.
If I won the lottery tomorrow I would definately buy one (along with a handful of early cars) but until then I will continue dreaming. Well done to the guys behind the company for doing it though, must have took some serious commitment (and money) to see a project like that through.
You can tell there has been some serious thought, design, and development gone into that car and the initial development costs would have been huge, 280K is probably the least they could sell it for and still run a business.
If I won the lottery tomorrow I would definately buy one (along with a handful of early cars) but until then I will continue dreaming. Well done to the guys behind the company for doing it though, must have took some serious commitment (and money) to see a project like that through.
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