DRIVEN: PORSCHE 911 CSR
Jonty hits the road in RPM Technik’s bespoke CSR Snakebite to find out if a Porsche could really slither its way onto his want list. Written by: Jonty Wydell
It’s widely known I’m far from the number one Porsche fan around here, and usually opt for driving something Italian or British. Once in a blue moon, though, I’m ordered to drive one of Stuttgart’s finest, and this one is a little bit different. Totally reworked from a bare shell in Hertfordshire of all places, this is the RPM Technik CSR, known as ‘Snakebite’.
Starting life as a relatively bland and basic 355bhp Arctic Silver 997 Carrera S with high mileage, the RPM Technik magic then started like a butterfly emerging from a chrysalis. Having eaten up so many miles, it was fully stripped, bodywork to bare shell, engine out and fully rebuilt, the same with the gearbox, and the seats were replaced along with an interior re-trim. To keep the exclusivity, only 50 cars will undergo the CSR transformation, following their ethos of ‘Bespoke, Analogue, Regenerated’. The ethos speaks for itself, but it’s interesting to see just what levels each of these concepts are taken to in the rebuild of a car. Typically, CSR cars are based on basic models reborn into fast road grand tourers which are also good for the occasional track day.
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