The brainchild of Porsche Exclusive department manager Rolf Sprenger, Porsche’s 911 Turbo S Lightweight was the very first model to be built and developed entirely within Porsche Exclusive.

A small production run consisting of just 86 cars was built, all built between July and November of 1992 for the 1993 model year.

Everything was considered in extracting every ounce of performance from these new cars, which were essentially a road-legal version of the same car that captured the 1992 IMSA supercar championship.

The Turbo’s production door cards were replaced with those from the Carrera RS.

The doors, the front trunk lid, and the tail spoiler were in glass-fiber-reinforced carbon composite, while thinner glass was installed in the rear and side windows.

In the pursuit of reducing weight as much as possible, Porsche removed comfort and convenience items such as air conditioning, power steering, rear seats, radio, insulation, and sound-deadening materials.

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