Porsche 911 Singer DLS, Exposed Carbon Fibre

Singer is a Los Angeles company, but the DLS was designed and produced with Williams Advanced Engineering, part of the Williams Grand Prix Engineering group, on its site in Oxfordshire, and the conversions were to be fitted at a new Singer studio in Oxford rather than in California. The body is made entirely of carbon fibre. Together with a new position for the engine, the carbon panels improved the weight balance and stiffened the car, and they helped bring the kerb weight down to 990 kg.

This model shows that material openly: the whole body is finished in clear-coated carbon weave. Gold is the accent, in a fine pinstripe around the side windows and along the sills, the PORSCHE script on the doors, the rings around the headlamps, the fuel cap on the bonnet and the five-spoke centre-lock wheels. Inside, black shell seats with chequered inserts sit against carbon trim, with a gold roll cage behind them. At the rear are the DLS plate, the Singer script on the engine grille and twin tailpipes. The carbon-weave base carries a plaque reading D&C, with the Singer script and Limited Edition, one of 20. It is built at 1:18, in a run of 20 for each colour.