The New Porsche 935 Is an Insane $1 Million Track Car

this is a new Porsche 935 and it's one of the most exclusive and expensive cars on the planet this is a Porsche race car that isn't street-legal and they're only building 77 of these for the entire world this one has a sticker price of just under 1 million dollars and today I'm going to take you on a tour of this car and show you what you get I've borrowed this 935 from Manny Cash been an entrepreneur here in Newport Beach in Southern California who has an amazing fleet of exotic cars man he also has a YouTube channel the name is on the screen right now and there's a link in the description below for you to subscribe and you should subscribe because he's often posting amazing videos with his incredible cars manny also recently launched a mentorship program called manny Cashman millionaire mentorship and I will link that in the description below so you can check it out also so let's talk 935 the new 935 this car was created as a tribute to the original Porsche 935 of the late 1970s and early 1980s which was one of Porsches most popular and successful race cars probably the most memorable original 935 had huge rear bodywork and a giant rear spoiler resembled a whale tail and so it earned the nickname Moby Dick and that's the 935 that this car is trying to resemble this car is based on the latest Porsche 911 gt2 RS but taken to the extreme it has the same 690 horsepower engine as the gt2 RS and the same transmission but this is a race car with a completely different interior and a lot of other upgrades most importantly it's just incredibly exclusive like I mentioned only 77 of these made for the entire planet with a sticker price for this car of just under a million dollar and today I'm going to show you what that money buys you aside from an ultra rare modern interpretation of a race car icon and I'm gonna start by taking you on a tour of this car and showing you all of the interesting quirks and features alright I'm gonna start the crooks and features of the 935 with getting in where the first thing you notice is just how light the door is it's unbelievable it can't weigh more than a couple of pounds I've never felt a car door this light before and it gives you some clue about how stripped down this thing is for serious racetrack use in fact there's not even a door stopper like there is on all Road cars to keep the door open it just sort of opens and closes depending on precisely what angle the car is sitting on they didn't feel like adding the weight to put that thing in and when you get inside you can see just why this door is so light because there are absolutely no frills to this door panel nope leather armrest no storage area for your wallet nothing you don't even get power windows and in fact the windows don't even roll down they're fixed in place in order to save weight and maybe for safety and because you don't really need to roll down the windows on a racetrack in fact this door is so basic it doesn't even have power locks or any locks at all which is rather weird because the key is just a normal Porsche the same one you get if you went out in least a new makan but there's a lock and unlock button they have no function this car has no locks you will also see a trunk open our button on the key it too has no function because this car has no trunk seems weird this car didn't get its own distinctive key but it didn't now if you're inside the car and you want to get out you pull on this little plastic latch and that unlatch is the door you can open it up and climb out if you're inside the car you want to close the door you pull on this red fabric loop and then the door closes that's basically it there is only one luxury on this door panel and that would be power mirrors you can see the control here and that's because the windows don't go down so if you're racing you can't exactly roll down the window and adjust the mirror so the power mirror switch is there and by the way speaking of the power mirrors it's worth noting that the mirrors themselves come from the Porsche 9:11 rsr racecar also a purpose-built race car shares mirrors with the 935 you know to get in I have to take off my shoes not because worried about it getting dirty but because they're rather large and they'll pamper the whole process I also have to remove the steering wheel which you do by pulling this gold tab on the back of the steering wheel this is pretty common in race cars to make it easier to get in and out you pull it off you kind of put it away then they have a little more room to climb inside and then wish me luck everyone no problem at all now once you're inside the very first thing you notice is the seats which are incredibly tight and Huggy these are actually FIA compliant race seats and they laugh at your sport bucket seats in your gt3 RS those people are so proud of these things are way more supportive more narrow than those seats because their actual race seats designed to completely keep you in place so if you have an accident your head won't go flying around they could break your neck these seats are legit and next up another item worth noting that goes well above what you get in your regular Porsche 911 gt3 n't you have a roof hatch yes that's right take a look on the roof you can see there's a little cutout over the driver area that's to get out in case the doors are compromised you have an accident the body workers ask you the doors don't open you have another way out through that escape hatch the only thing is it's secured in place with like eight individual fasteners so if you have an accident your cars on fire you're not gonna exactly sit here and undo each one hoping that you have enough time to get out the roof hatch seems like kind of an odd thing but it's there as an extra point of escape if you need it a.m. next up one other item worth noting this car is sold new with only one seat it's a single seeder cards intended to be a racecar you're setting lap records in you don't need a passenger with that said portions not crazy they offer a second seat as an option and the owner of this car mania decided to get the second seat as you can see it's in place the cost was about thirteen thousand dollars just for a passenger seat but I guess that's what it costs to manufacture and ship a passenger seat that's FIA compliant with all the safety equipment to make sure your passenger also doesn't get injured on the racetrack and next up we move on to all of the interior quirks and features in the 935 and I want to start with the starting procedure which is quite unusual to begin it's the same as every other Porsche over to the left of the steering wheel you insert the key and twist it but then nothing happens you then have to go into the center control stack there's this little red flap open it up and there's a switch underneath it push it down and that turns on the cars fuel pump all of its accessories and then it's ready to be started then go back over to the left of the steering wheel to the starter twist the key and the car roars to life take a listen to a cold start from a Porsche 935 [Music] and next up once you get the car on is you look around this interior you'll discover that it's a curious mix of stuff you'll find in every other Porsche model including bass Boxster's and stuff you'll only find in full-on race cars I'm gonna start with the center control stack the typical Porsche screen has been ripped out and instead you have these controls mounted on this carbon fiber piece I already showed you that ignition switch over to the left in the middle you have the hazard lights that button turns orange when the car is on so you know how to activate it and over to the right you have a red button with an e I believe that is the cars fire suppression system so if you're on a race track you get an accident the car catches on fire you press that and there's a fire suppression system built into the car that will spray fire suppression material to try to stop the fire now still in the center control stack but below those controls over on the left you have a little dial that's marked ABS with this car you can adjust the intensity in the force of the anti-lock braking system including turn it all the way off if you want to and below that dial there's a little label printed down here that actually gives you a guide for when you're supposed to use each different level of ABS you can see there are 11 different levels ranging from slick and dry and robust at 1 all the way up to wet and sensitive at 11 again something for serious racetrack drivers now next to the ABS dial you have another thing you won't find in a regular 911 and that would be your traction control intensity you can see here you have the option of turning on the wet traction control you can turn it all the way off and you can turn off your stability control with these four sort of square buttons in the middle of your Center control stack now interestingly below this race car panel in the middle of this vehicle you have climate controls and in fact they're the regular climate controls you have in basically every other Porsche model you can adjust the temperature you can put it on automatic you have a different passenger and driver side temperature it's the same climate controls from every other vehicle right below a race panel that allows you to choose from 11 different levels of anti-lock braking intensity now next to those climate controls you have this ship this car is equipped with Porsches PDK system just like the gt2 RS on which it's based and you can see the top of the shifter is wood which is a really cool look and it memorializes a few iconic Porsche models like the 917 race car which also had a wood shifter and the Carrera GT which does too now next up over on the passenger side of the interior a few interesting items over here one on the dashboard you have this plaque that says 935 and it tells you what limited edition number your particular 935 is there's also this cool outline of the car also notable are the items in the footwell you have the battery in here it's huge it takes up an enormous portion of the footwell and you have the fire suppression system canister in here which takes up even more of the foot well as uncomfortable as it is in this car for the driver it's even less comfortable for the passenger because so much of the footwell is stolen away and you can see why this car is sold with only a driver seat unless you really want another seat then next up another interesting item in here back to the center console you have the headlight switch for this car typically you see this near the steering wheel in Porsche models they've moved it to the center console but it is the exact same headlights which you'd find in a lot of other Porsche models just in a completely different place and yes this car has automatic headlights apparently anyway because there's an auto portion of the headlight switch and next we move on to probably the most notable item in this interior which would be the gauge cluster which has all of the displays and information for pretty much everything you'll need to know about this car this gauge cluster was borrowed from the 911 gt3 R which is also a race car they installed it in here too the first thing you notice about the gauge cluster when the car starts is the rev counter you don't have a gauge but instead an actual display in numbers of exactly what your revs are and you can see it is changing quite a bit as the engine revs change now speaking of those printed numbers for the rev counter it's worth noting that there are numbers for all of the information readouts for this car there are no gauges like on road cars instead exact numbers are in this gauge cluster so you're on a race track you can just look and see precisely what all of your readouts are and you don't have to try to interpret a gauge or a graph which you doing a road car where you have more time to react and next up another item I love in that gauge cluster in the lower left corner you have the Porsche logo even though it's digital the whole thing is digital but they just want to remind you once again you have a Porsche in case you've forgotten and next up we have to move back over to the steering wheel now to get it back into place you pull on that little gold tab behind the wheel line it up and then you can snap it right back into place first one interesting item worth noting about the steering wheel specifically it isn't really a wheel you can see it's kind of circular but the top half is completely cut off that's to facilitate an easier line-of-sight to that gauge cluster screen which is so important they just lose the top half of the steering wheels so you can see it better and I mention the steering wheel here because the wheel works in direct conjunction with the gauge cluster to provide you with more information and other capabilities for example one button on the steering wheel says pit if you press that it pulls up a large display that shows a pit timer so you know exactly how much time you've spent in the pit lane how much time you've lost on the racetrack it also shows your miles per hour in very large print because some pit lanes have a speed limit and you might want easy access to that information next up over on the left side of the steering wheel you have a button marked ack-ack which stands for acknowledge so you can see there's a warning up on the gauge screen right now saying low fuel you press ACK and it acknowledges the low fuel warning and then that warning goes away yeah and next up another button on the steering wheel is disc D is you press that and you get a different information display with more car information temperatures that sort of thing you can press this again to kind of cycle through both of the displays to see whatever it is you're curious about when you're on the racetrack now next up around the gauge cluster you can see there are a lot of different lights little light circles on the left right and top I presume these lights are there to guide you for when it's time to shift you have shift paddles on the steering wheel just like in so many other cars and I presume those lights will turn green yellow red and then you know it's time to pull the paddle and shift into the next gear and next up around that gauge cluster screen you do have two dials on the left you have the sport chrono display like you have on a lot of Porsche models which is a clock or a lap timer if you want it and over on the right you have a gauge that shows pressure oil pressure so you know where that is when you're driving the car and next up back to stuff you'd find another Porsche models the stocks coming off the steering column over on the right of the steering wheel you have the wiper stock and it's the same wiper stock and basically every other modern Porsche model over on the left you have a cruise control stock which blows me away I can't imagine this car actually has cruise control but at least the stock is there and above that you have the stock for the turn signals which also might seem a little bit strange but there is some logic to putting turn signals on a track car you might signal when you're going into a pit lane for instance or you may have to put on your hazard lights to let other drivers know that your car is broken and you become a hazard so there are some purposes for it and this car has some of the coolest turn signals of any car they're mounted on the side of this giant rear wing pointing to the back and just look how cool they are this LED bar going up turning on and off that is a really cool look one of my very favorite turn signals ever now you put on the headlights and of course the tail lights turn on back here and they also share that space you can see that tail lights light up in red in the same spot you're wondering what if you put on the turn signal while the tail lights are on and it just sort of alternates from red to orange and red to orange back and forth to let drivers know that your tail lights are on but your signal is also long now interestingly the brake lights are in a completely different place from the tail lights and the turn signals this car basically just has cool racecar bodywork over the back of a regular 911 gt2 RS and the brake lights are actually just the regular gt2 RS brake lights in the regular spot they're sort of inside all of this cool special 9:35 bodywork pretty far in there but just your regular 911 brake lights surprisingly and next up one other piece of lighting worth noting back here is in the middle you have these 15 individual little lights that's your fog light or your rain light for when you're driving on a foggy or rain Racecourse you can turn that on with the headlight switch the same way you turn on the rear fog light in basically any other car and then it turns on lights up red so other drivers can see you and they don't hit you in bad weather conditions on the track but probably this cars most unusual lighting system is up front when you put on the turn signals up front the whole front lighting assembly lights up as the turn signal very bright nothing too unusual about that except there's not another lighting assembly so when you turn on the headlights that same assembly lights up as the headlights so of course then you're thinking well what happens if you turn on the turn signal with the headlights on the answer is they just alternate goes headlight turn signal headlight turn signal now you gotta remember this is a race car there aren't exactly regulations saying that the headlight has to stay on when you turn on the turn signal Porsche probably figured most people will only be using the turn signal for a very short period of time so there's no problem with combining them so they did but you will not find that on a road car obviously and next up moving on to some other exterior items in the 935 I want to move on to one of my very favorites that would be this warning label printed on the windshield that says caution race car this vehicle is not eligible for registration or public street use that is a fantastic warning label you don't get that on your gt3 RS now right below that it says caution the tires mounted at the time of delivery are meant for transport only and must not be used for testing or racing indeed these are transport tires and if you look at the tires you can see they specifically say transport on them in several different places just as a reminder these aren't actual racing tires they're just used to move the car around on trucks whatever when you buy one of these you're given a second set of tires racing slicks which of course are better on the racetrack and a different set of wheels which are intended to mimic the original wheels on the original 9:35 these tires really are just for temporary use transport when you're moving the car around from place to place and by the way you see this little hook coming off the center of the wheel the transport wheels have that hook for an unusual purpose so the car can be easily secured on a flat bed or in a trailer just flip your straps to those hooks and it won't move around on a transporter not a feature you're likely to see on the wheels of basically any other car next up let's talk about that stuff you get when you buy this car like the tires this is a race car not street-legal not sold through a dealership so there's no window sticker with government mandated fuel economy disclosures instead you get a little list from Porsche that says this is what everything costs and the owner of this car manny showed me the list for this car the base price is eight hundred and twenty nine thousand dollars shipping is $52,000 then there's a spare parts package that costs forty three thousand dollars extra which you're obligated to get if you buy the car so you can have spare parts in case you're racing it and you damaged it and you need more parts there's also a wrap this car comes standard in bare carbon fiber and you can see on these vents exactly how it would look if you didn't wrap it in any color Manny this cars owner chose to wrap it in this cool martini livery that was twenty seven thousand five hundred dollars bringing the grand total price of this car to nine hundred and fifty two thousand dollars just shy of a million bucks a lot of money for a car Ian next up we move on to some other interesting quirks and features on the outside of this car one is in this little panel here behind a window on the passenger side you can see there's this little blue thing with a piece sticking out that's for the jacking system you insert an air compressor in there and there are air jacks that will actually push the car up to make it easier to change the tires if you're a pit crew just like a race car which makes sense because this is a race car next to that you have a little cap that says nine thirty five and below that distilled water only you're supposed to put distilled water in there obviously and then this car has a water injection system that occasionally sprays water and hot pieces of the engine to keep it cool when you're doing hot track lap after track lap or the engine could typically overheat now given that this little cap on the side of the car is for water you may be wondering where do you put in gasoline fuel that is done at the very center in the front of the car this is the fuel cap the fuel goes in here typically a pit crew would be doing this for you but you can also put in your own race fuel and next up another cool feature on the outside of this car is the exhausts which look so cool like rocket launchers behind this thing this car doesn't have to conform to any emissions regulation since it's a race car not street-legal and they can make the exhaust look like this and it is just so cool looking apparently this exhaust design is a tribute to another Porsche racecar from years ago then 908 but regardless of where it comes from it is amazing and of course the exhaust sounds pretty good too here are a few revs for your enjoyment and finally to discuss the last interesting quirks about the 935 I want to talk about what separates this car from the gt2 RS because like I mentioned it has the same engine as the gt2 RS and the same transmission so maybe wondering why would you pay a million dollars for this when you can pick up a gt2 RS for a lot less of course the different bodywork is a component the fact that it's a race car and the incredibly low production number but there's more to it than just that this car has improved brakes compared to the gt2 RS for far better stopping power and like I showed you you can dial in your ABS force with that switch in the interior this car is also 300 pounds lighter than a gt2 RS for a total kerb weight of about 3000 pounds a little over that's a big deal because the gt2 RS is already way lighter than basically every other 911 to take even more weight out of it it's pretty impressive this car also has a fuel cell in it which is a special kind of fuel tank designed for use on race cars and this car is a 30 gallon fuel cell which means you can do a lot of track laps before you have to come into the pits for more fuel and of course you also have the rear wing which is absolutely massively insane undoubtedly the largest rear wing I've seen on one of the cars I've reviewed but this is a race car they have large rear wings for better downforce it's not that unusual in the race car world still huge to see it here now it's worth noting that despite the special design of this car the styling the rear wing it isn't intended for any particular race series instead it's just a race car that owners can do whatever they want with go racing in whatever series they can qualify for or just enjoy on private racetracks whenever they want or more likely just sit in a garage under a cover and finally I want to briefly discuss some of the accessories you get along with your 935 this is just a small portion of what comes along with your car and I'm not going to go through everything in depth here but you get these Porsche cases that have extra parts in them some of the stuff is for racing you can open it up you have your little fuel filler to put fuel in at the racetrack you have your little tool that'll help undo your center lock wheels and it just kind of goes on and on you have compartment after compartment full of all sorts of different stuff and again this is only a small portion of what comes along with a 935 you get a lot of different accessories then again you'd expect to for a million dollars and so those are the quirks and features of the 935 but now I want to talk to the car's owner a little bit about the 935 experience so far so this is Manny Cashman thank you for having me back here let's talk 935 so how do you know first off that you've been there's only 77 of these how do you know that you're one of the 77 how do they tell you well I was sitting one afternoon of my house is smoking a nice cigar and I got an email and he was directly from Porsche in Germany and I opened it and it had the title was 935 so I figured out it's a decline letter because of course I've been inquiring about it right he's a legendary car right right and there is 77 as you know I like exclusivity right I call collection and I open there then I start reading it and like the first sentence says well sometimes it's locked sometimes it's fate but we were able to secure you at 9:35 so you were you were already pretty interested in the car from the beginning but they made 918 many teens fighters and then from that they have to kind of Whittle down to 77 do you have any idea why they picked you do you know anymore than this do you care love the Porsche brand i'm very expressive but passionate about the car brands that I really love Porsche being one of them so I'm on social media right I love my courage GT my gt2 RS and my 918 so I think but you know 9 or 10 Porsches in the past 10 years so the Germany sends you an email Porsche and Germany sends you an email and then you say yes obviously so then this will being a race car I mean Simon street-legal the process is very different and walking through kind of the process of ordering it and and all that yes lots of options different livery of course I went as you can see with the classic martini because it's a legendary car I didn't want to put my own touch into it it's you don't touch the cars like did they would they have allowed you like could you have done whatever you wanted no okay there was there were certain things you could do absolutely and no charge because with full exposed carbon fibre but then they give you four or five maybe actually more than five different designs with the wrap so this whole car is a wrap right a paint and I went with the classic martini because I think it's such a legendary card and Moby Dick as it's known right this design is like the iconic right at this part so so there's no configurator do you just like email back and forth with some dude and ultra VIP you just actually with a girl okay but you're talking to someone it Porsche and just say this is what I want this one and this is special enough that there's just like a person assigned to it exactly so after Germany assigns you that beautiful letter that they email you after Germany emails you that beautiful awesome letter they hand you over to Porsche of North America motorsports and you just coordinate from there well so so that letter was like a year and a half ago so it took that long before you find you can't shadow tell me about the delivery of this vehicle oh there is interesting so I first I get a big pallet right two pallets I'm like oh you got the wrong address those and all these from a portion of our support oh yeah so I figured they shipped me the acquiring pieces but then I then I then I read the shipping slips as spare parts so I figure okay the cars in one piece daily and then the tow truck came a few hours after that okay so the pallet ladies are delivered separately you actually got so so in the spare parts is like obviously the wheels and tires France bowling there so if you like damage or something pretty cool and it comes with big crates of tools and well this stuff yeah I mean so if you run into issues with this car you can't exactly take it to Porsche of Irvine or Porsche powered portion of Newport Beach that's not gonna happen what is the process for delimit well then recommend they'll go ahead and give you some references where you can take it so lucky for me GM G Motorsports is down the street learning online and they actually have a 935 oh really I had the owner has it the magic of Southern California's cars they race cars have the thermal so lucky for me they recommended James James GM G actually I have to install the passenger seat and I had to take it over there was that the most ridiculous thing throughout this process the $13,000 of passengers no shipping was fifty two thousand dollars yeah I saw that why we shipping 50 she doesn't know did they bring on a plane well yes it came over with it on the plane and I'm guessing their spare parts he's like sure right sure of course I'm excited and you don't even sure it's probably on it and it's super low it's it's a you don't to make a mistake you got a wing yeah so now that you have this car what do you do with a car like this you can't drive it on the road no you can't and I'm not about to risk it yeah only only way to injuries on the track yeah so I got a car about two or three days aha my busy life and planet track day and so that's the new Porsche 935 obviously I can't drive this car because it isn't street-legal and generally I don't review cars that I can't drive but given how rare this car is and how unlikely it is that I'll ever be able to track one down and set up a racetrack where I can really experience it I figured I would settle for this thorough tour of this amazing Porsche and next up it's time to move outside the 9:35 which means unfortunately getting out here goes [Music]

Channel: Doug DeMuro

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Length: 31min 37sec (1897 seconds)

Published: Tue Apr 21 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/gluten_heimer]

Only Porsche would charge $13k for a passenger seat in a car with standard dual-zone climate control.

[u/pryan886]

Casual Fayence Yellow Carrera GT just chillin in the background.

[u/Lawsoffire]

For the lights around the gauge cluster. the top 1 is shift light indeed, starting at the left and moving to the right, the first ones are green and the last ones red.

The 2 side ones are wheelspin indicators / how hard the TC has to work, which can light up yellow or purple, with yellow being rear tires and lighting up from the bottom towards center and the front tires being purple and lighting up from the top, left cluster of lights being the left front and rear, and the right ones being right front and rear. This allows you to see which wheels are starting to lose grip at any point in time, allowing you to race as close to the edge of grip as possible. They come on when you brake hard and you are close to locking up, they come on when cornering hard, and they come on when you accelerate out of corners

Source: This cluster (and the steering wheel) is also present on the 718 GT4 Clubsport (the racecar version of the GT4), which is present in the racing simulator iRacing in very realistic detail, that also includes all of this

[u/andresrene]

Very orgasmic way to get into a car btw.

[u/StaniX]

The owner seems like he's got a lot of KNAWLEDGE to give.

[u/pryan886]

Fun fact: The original 935 was the only car that ever wore an Apple livery. It was the year after Paul Newman came in 2nd at Le Mans on Dick Barbours team (that year it was Hawaiian Tropic livery).

That actual car was recently sold to Adam Carolla for $4.4M making this heritage car seem like a bargain.

https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-porsche-for-sale-2016-7

[u/theres_no_usernames]

Doug how much were you drooling over that yellow CGT in the background? That thing's beautiful

Also any chance we're gonna see a more in depth review of one? The review you did awhile back is a little short and I'd love a full giant look at one

[u/gabika911]

Unpopular opinion: This car is nowhere near special enough to justify the price, as it's 'just' a GT2 RS with a cool carbon body. A 911 RSR is faster and much cooler as a track toy with it's novel engine layout, and a GT2 RS is a better buy as it has almost all of the performance while will being road legal.I don't like that Porsche is playing this game of making a limited edition car that is just a re-body of an existing model with no mechanical changes.

Disclaimer: I am fully aware this is a trend amongst ultra high end sports cars and that there is a market for this. In my opinion a car needs not only to look awesome and be "limited" but also to do something different mechanically in order to be a million dollar machine. A 918 is awesome, this not so much.

[u/madevilfish]

This video makes me feel really really poor.