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StarLight Garage presents the Tanner Foust Edition RWB Volkswagen Beetle Turbo R from 2014.
It's an amazing Beetle and last but not least it's oranje too, Hollands favorite color and Porsche genuine color.
Enjoy!
Idea for this suggestion given by Slender_Man.
Tanner Foust is currently racing heavily modified Volkswagens in rallycross, and will soon be doing the same in few upcoming rounds of Formula Drift competition, it was only natural that he’d use a Volkswagen as the basis for this build for last year’s SEMA Show.
Building a car that can stand out among the excess at SEMA is not an easy thing, and when it came time to style this 2014 Beetle Turbo, Tanner and company ended up looking toward a well known Porsche specialist in Japan called RAUH-Welt Begriff.
RWB is known for working with Porsches, so the boss, Akira Nakai was quite open to the idea of putting his name and signature styling on a Beetle?
He digs the Beetle’s iconic, Porsche-esque styling and thought the car would be a good fit for his legendary wide body look.
The bodywork was completed at LTMW in Southern California, with Nakai-san handling the design with some assistance from our friend and talented automotive artist Jon Sibal.
RWB’s Porsches are the way they fully retain the 911’s classic looks, but with a large degree of aggression added from the wide fenders, suspension and wheels.
The same mindset was used when creating the Beetle.
The one-off kit adds eight inches of width to the Beetle’s profile, but rather than the raw, exposed-rivet look that many RWB cars have used, this design has a more seamless appearance. It almost looks like something that could be factory.
Aside from the essential widened fenders, the car is also running RWB side skirts, a front spoiler that looks like it came right off of Nakai’s 930, and sets of canards on both the front and rear fenders.
When it came time to choose a color for the car, it was determined that the Beetle should be covered in a hue that was very reminiscent of Porsche. In that sense, it’s hard to argue with choice of 997.1 GT3 RS orange with black accents.
A key part of capturing the RWB look would be the suspension, and in this department KW was called upon for a set of custom V3 coilovers originally designed for a Mk6 Golf GTI. The resulting stance is low and aggressive, just as an RWB car should be.
Motegi Racing jumped on board the project to fill up the Beetle’s massively widened fenders by supplying an custom-building set of five-spoke Tracklite wheels, which contributed to the aggressive RWB style.
The 2.0 TSI motor beneath the Beetle’s hood has been left bone stock. Like the engine, the interior has been kept almost completely stock too, with the only significant change being the seats.
While a front-engined, front-wheel drive Volkswagen Beetle will never be a Porsche 911, I have to say that Tanner, Nakai-san, Jon Sibal and LTMW have done a very convincing a job applying what’s become an iconic look to a very different type of car.
Specifications
Engine
VW 2.0 TSI turbocharged four cylinder
Driveline
6-speed manual transmission, front-wheel drive
Suspension/Brakes
Custom KW V3 coilovers built from Mk6 Golf GTI specs
Wheels/Tires
Custom-built Motegi Tracklite 18×10-inch (front) 18×13-inch (rear)
Pirelli P ZERO tires 275/35R18 (front) 295/35R18 (rear)
Exterior
One-off RWB widebody conversion designed by Akira Nakai & Jon Sibal,
Bodywork by LTMW,
RWB front spoiler, custom canards, smoked headlights, Porsche GT3 RS orange paint
Interior
Recaro Sportster CS leather front seats
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