Gunther Werks Puts a New Slant on an Old Porsche 911
The California 911 remastered shop finds an untapped angle.
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Gunther Werks
Spotted during Monterey Car Week was Gunther Werks’ homage to the slant-nose Porsche 930.
The Huntington Beach, California, firm calls it F-26 for the number of cars it plans to make.
The F-26 has a 1000-hp twin-turbo 4.0-liter flat-six and a six-speed manual.
The Quail at 9:00 a.m. this morning might as well have been a garage off Sunset and Figueroa, because we found a nine-one-one slope. While this isn’t one of the original Porsche 930 slant-noses that left the factory in the 1980s, it is an homage to the automotive great. And when that great is already a Porsche 911, it’s basically the hat tip to the king of kings.
Gunther Werks
Gunther Werks
The flachbau option was for the 911 racing fans who wanted their roadgoing Turbos (930s) to look more like the aerodynamic 935s that won more than 100 races in the 1970s and took an overall victory at the 1979 24 Hours of Le Mans despite not being in the top class.
This car, which Gunther Werks calls F-26, aims to capture some of that nostalgia and hopefully some of that magic with all the knowledge and experience it has learned over its four projects, the first of which it let us test back in 2019.
Gunther Werks
This one takes visual cues from the roadgoing cars and the race cars, but those looking for pop-up headlights better keep combing Bring a Trailer, as this one has fixed units set in a carbon-fiber front end.
The F-26, so named because that is how many the Huntington Beach, California, company will make, gets a 1000-hp twin-turbo 4.0-liter flat-six, six-speed manual, and a limited-slip differential. Plenty of carbon fiber in the construction, carbon-ceramic brake rotors, and magnesium wheels keep the curb weight to a tidy 2750 pounds. Carry the one . . . yeah, that’s 2.8 pounds per horsepower. It’ll be an absolute rocket ship, assuming the tires can hook up.
Gunther Werks
It is worth noting that the 1000-hp figure is running a high-ethanol blend and that it will make less power on 93 octane. Gunther Werks’ Turbo model makes 700 horsepower.
Like the other GW cars we’ve seen, it’s got big meaty tires, Continental 295/30R-18 in front and 335/30R-18 in the back. A 1.2-inch-longer wheelbase is said to improve the balance, and adaptive dampers should provide adequate compliance to what will undoubtedly be the kind of firm ride needed to harness this powertrain. We’re very open to testing this one too.
Gunther Werks
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K.C. Colwell, the executive editor at Car and Driver, is a seasoned professional with a deep-rooted passion for new cars and technology. His journey into the world of automotive journalism began at an early age when his grandmother gifted him a subscription to Car and Driver for his 10th birthday. This gift sparked a lifelong love for the industry, and he read every issue between then and his first day of employment. He started his Car and Driver career as a technical assistant in the fall of 2004. In 2007, he was promoted to assistant technical editor. In addition to testing, evaluating, and writing about cars, technology, and tires, K.C. also set the production-car lap record at Virginia International Raceway for C/D’s annual Lightning Lap track test and was just the sixth person to drive the Hendrick Motorsport Garage 56 Camaro. In 2017, he took over as testing director until 2022, when was promoted to executive editor and has led the brand to be one of the top automotive magazines in the country. When he’s not thinking about cars, he likes playing hockey in the winter and golf in the summer and doing his best to pass his good car sense and love of ’90s German sedans to his daughter. He might be the only Car and Driver editor to own a Bobcat: the skidsteer, not the feline. Though, if you have a bobcat guy, reach out. K.C. resides in Chelsea, Michigan, with his family.
