This video highlights a rare 1991 Porsche 964 Carrera 4 Lightweight, one of just 22 built by Porsche’s customer racing department. Developed as a lightweight, four-wheel-drive race car, it was a personal project of Jürgen Barth, inspired by demand from American customers for a lighter competition version of the Carrera...
The rarest 964 RS variant was the awesome 964 C4 Lightweight. Known as the 964 Leichtbau it made use of surplus parts from 953 Paris-Dakar project. A handful of specially prepared lightweight 911s were fabricated by the Porsche factory and called the Carrera 4 RS Lightweight. The idea was to combine the...
Rare & Special Race Versions of the 964 For issue 131 of Total 911, you may remember that we made a trip to Finland to drive two very special Porsche 964s: the legendary 964 Carrera RS and the ultra rare 964 Carrera 4 Lightweight. Both Porsche 911s are owned by the...
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Porsche 911 Sport Classic arrives at Salon Privé 2017 (Courtesy of Salon Privé) The 2018 Concours Masters at Salon Privé on Saturday, 1 September will celebrate 70 years of Porsche with a spectacular timeline of models. The Stuttgart manufacturer has achieved much within the past seven decades, and as a...
The rarest 964 RS variant was the awesome 964 C4 Lightweight. Known as the 964 Leichtbau it made use of surplus parts from 953 Paris-Dakar project. A handful of specially prepared lightweight 911s were fabricated by the Porsche factory and called the Carrera 4 RS Lightweight. Carrera RS Body with 959-like AWD wizardry and more power. Lightweight masterpiece. Used parts from 953 Paris-Dakar project. The 964 C4 Lightweight was powered by the same 3.6 liter flat six as the normal 964 RS, but was fettled to produce 300 hp.
