1996 Porsche 911 (993) GT2 Coupe Speedline Rims | 1:12 Scale Diecast Model Car | KK-Scale

There are colors that flatter great cars — and then there are colors that reveal them, that strip away every distraction, every visual softening, and every aesthetic compromise and present the car in its most honest, its most powerful, and its most completely and permanently authentic form — colors that do not merely complement a car’s visual character but that define it, that complete it, and that elevate it to a level of visual authority and collector magnificence that simply no other color could approach with the same completeness, the same power, or the same genuinely overwhelming and permanently unforgettable impact. For the 1996 Porsche 911 993 GT2 — the most extreme, the most powerful, the most completely uncompromising, and the most genuinely and authentically racing-derived air-cooled Porsche road car ever produced in the entire history of the Porsche 911 — that color is Black — a color of such complete and total automotive authority, such absolute and uncompromising visual dominance, and such completely and permanently appropriate aesthetic seriousness for a car of such genuinely extreme performance ambition and such completely authentic racing car DNA that it transforms this already most extraordinary and most completely spectacular of all large-format Porsche diecast model releases into something of a genuinely different and genuinely more significant order of visual magnificence, collector gravitas, and completely overwhelming aesthetic impact than any other color presentation of this most legendary of all air-cooled Porsche GT racing variants could possibly achieve. And KK-Scale — in their magnificent 1:12 scale large-format diecast masterpiece of the 1996 Porsche 911 993 GT2 Coupe with Speedline Rims presented in the most commanding, the most authoritative, and the most genuinely and completely appropriate Black finish that this most serious and this most completely uncompromising of all production Porsches has ever worn — has created a collector’s model of such genuinely overwhelming presence, such absolutely and permanently commanding visual authority, and such outstanding large-format manufacturing excellence that it stands, without question and without any possibility of serious challenge, as one of the most important, the most visually powerful, and the most completely extraordinary large-format classic Porsche GT racing diecast model releases in the entire history of the premium 1:12 scale collecting world.

The Porsche 911 993 GT2 — produced in the strictly limited and genuinely extraordinary number of just 172 road-legal examples between 1995 and 1997 — represents the absolute pinnacle, the most completely realized, and the most genuinely and permanently significant expression of the air-cooled Porsche 911 performance philosophy in its most extreme, its most demanding, and its most completely and authentically racing-derived road-going form. To understand the 993 GT2 fully and completely — to appreciate with the depth and the completeness that this most extraordinary of all production Porsches genuinely and completely deserves — it is essential to understand from the very beginning that this car was not developed as a road car that was subsequently adapted for racing use, as is the conventional and entirely understandable approach taken by the vast majority of production performance car manufacturers when developing their most capable and most performance-focused road car variants. The 993 GT2 was developed from the very first moment of its engineering brief as a racing car — specifically, as the most capable, the most completely competitive, and the most genuinely performance-maximized homologation special that Porsche’s most experienced and the most completely capable engineers could develop and produce for the FIA GT2 class of international motorsport competition — that happened to be offered in a road-legal specification to the most select, the most demanding, and the most genuinely performance-focused group of Porsche customer drivers in the world. This fundamental distinction — this complete and total reversal of the conventional road-to-racing development logic — gives the 993 GT2 a character of such genuine and completely authentic racing car purity, such completely uncompromised performance engineering DNA, and such absolutely and permanently convincing motorsport provenance that it is unique among road-legal Porsche production cars of any era and that makes every other production Porsche variant of any generation seem, in comparison, to have been conceived and developed with at least some degree of commercial compromise, customer accessibility consideration, or road car convenience concession that the 993 GT2 refuses with complete and absolute conviction to acknowledge, accept, or in any way accommodate.

The engineering specification of the 1996 Porsche 911 993 GT2 is a collection of performance engineering decisions of such genuine extremity, such completely authentic racing ambition, and such fully and comprehensively uncompromising performance intent that it would have seemed — to any reasonable observer of the mid-1990s production performance car landscape — to belong more appropriately to a dedicated racing car than to any production vehicle that would be licensed, registered, and driven on public roads by private customers without professional racing support or specialized automotive expertise. The 3.6-litre twin-turbocharged flat-six engine — equipped with significantly larger and more aggressively specified KKK turbochargers than those fitted to the standard 993 Turbo that served as the GT2’s mechanical foundation, a more aggressive and more performance-maximized engine management calibration that extracted every possible horsepower from the engine’s fundamental architecture, substantially strengthened internal components including a specially developed and specifically reinforced crankshaft assembly, specially engineered and specifically calibrated connecting rods, and precisely developed high-performance pistons — produced 430 horsepower in standard road specification through a power delivery of such dramatic urgency, such completely and genuinely overwhelming turbocharged intensity, and such absolutely and permanently addictive performance character that it created in combination with the 993 GT2’s other performance-maximizing specifications a driving experience of such extraordinary excitement, such genuinely challenging and genuinely rewarding dynamic intensity, and such completely and permanently unforgettable automotive drama that the most experienced and the most knowledgeable Porsche drivers and performance car specialists worldwide have consistently and unanimously described it across the nearly three decades since its introduction as one of the most genuinely thrilling, the most authentically exciting, and the most completely and permanently unforgettable driving experiences that any road-legal production sports car from any manufacturer at any price has ever provided to any driver at any point in the entire history of the performance automobile. The choice of rear-wheel drive only — with the complete and deliberate elimination of the sophisticated Carrera 4 all-wheel-drive system that was available across much of the 993 range and that would have made the GT2’s extraordinary 430 horsepower considerably more accessible to a broader range of drivers — reflects with such complete and total clarity the genuinely uncompromising and the genuinely racing-first engineering philosophy of the 993 GT2 that it requires no further explanation or qualification: this was a car developed for drivers of the highest skill, the greatest commitment, and the most complete and authentic engagement with the Porsche performance philosophy in its most demanding and its most genuinely rewarding form, and it was specified and engineered accordingly without any concession to commercial convenience, driver accessibility, or the kind of safety-net electronic assistance that a car of this performance capability might have deployed to make its extraordinary power and its extraordinary dynamic demands more manageable for a less demanding and less committed driver clientele.

The visual presence of the 1996 Porsche 911 993 GT2 — even in still photography, even in scale model form, and even at the remove of nearly three decades from the car’s original introduction — retains an immediacy, an authority, and a completely overwhelming visual impact of such genuine and permanently impressive magnitude that it commands the complete and undivided attention of every person who encounters it with an authority and a conviction that very few production cars from any manufacturer in any era have ever been capable of generating with the same completeness and the same permanence. The GT2’s dramatically widened body — with its massively extended front wheel arches that expand the car’s front track to dimensions of such complete aerodynamic and mechanical necessity that they give the front end of the 993 an impression of muscular, aggressive, and completely uncompromising automotive authority of the most convincing and the most genuinely impressive kind, its equally dramatically widened rear haunches that accommodate the enormous rear tyres necessary to manage the GT2’s extraordinary power output through its rear-wheel-drive drivetrain with the maximum possible mechanical grip and the most complete possible dynamic stability under the most demanding performance driving conditions, its iconic and immediately recognizable fixed rear wing of such genuine and obvious aerodynamic purposefulness and such completely authentic racing car visual character that it has become one of the most celebrated, the most frequently referenced, and the most immediately evocative visual symbols of Porsche GT racing heritage in the entire history of the brand’s production car and competition car design vocabulary, and its large and purposefully styled front air intake apertures that feed cooling air to the GT2’s twin-turbo flat-six engine with such direct, such functional, and such completely purposeful efficiency — all combine to create a vehicle of such complete and overwhelming visual authority, such genuinely and permanently convincing racing car seriousness, and such absolutely and permanently unforgettable automotive drama that the 993 GT2 is today, after nearly three decades of being studied, admired, and collected by the most knowledgeable and the most devoted Porsche enthusiasts in the world, still regarded without any serious qualification as the single most visually dramatic, the most immediately arresting, and the most completely and permanently overwhelming road-legal air-cooled Porsche 911 that the brand has ever produced.

The Speedline wheels — produced by the celebrated Italian motorsport wheel specialist Speedline whose technical excellence in lightweight high-strength alloy wheel design and whose long and distinguished history of supplying wheels to some of the world’s most demanding and the most prestigious international motorsport programmes had by the mid-1990s established the brand as one of the most respected and the most authoritative names in the entire international motorsport wheel supply community — are reproduced in this KK-Scale 1:12 scale model with such extraordinary dimensional precision, such genuine specification accuracy, and such completely authentic Speedline motorsport wheel design character that they add to this already most extraordinary of all large-format Porsche diecast model releases an additional and genuinely significant dimension of direct racing heritage authenticity, genuine motorsport provenance, and completely convincing FIA GT2 class competition specification accuracy that every knowledgeable 993 GT2 specialist and Porsche motorsport enthusiast will immediately recognize and deeply appreciate as one of the most genuinely significant and the most completely authentic specification and detail choices that any 993 GT2 scale model release at any scale from any manufacturer could possibly feature and reproduce.

In Black — a color of such complete and total visual authority, such absolute and permanently commanding automotive presence, and such genuinely and completely appropriate aesthetic seriousness for a car of the 993 GT2’s genuinely extreme performance ambition and completely uncompromising racing car character that it seems not merely appropriate but entirely inevitable and perfectly definitive as the most honest, the most powerful, and the most completely convincing color presentation for this most serious and this most completely authentic racing car among all road-legal Porsches — the 1996 Porsche 911 993 GT2 Speedline achieves at 1:12 scale a visual statement of such complete and total commanding magnificence, such absolutely and permanently overwhelming automotive authority, and such genuinely and completely extraordinary collector appeal that it is quite simply the most visually powerful, the most immediately and permanently arresting, and the most completely and unconditionally compelling large-format Porsche GT racing diecast model available to collectors anywhere in the world at any price from any manufacturer in the entire history of the premium large-format diecast collecting hobby. Black on the 993 GT2’s dramatically wide, massively muscled, and completely and totally purposeful racing car body — with the authentic Speedline racing wheels visible in such extraordinary 1:12 scale detail that every machined surface, every precisely engineered spoke geometry, and every authentic Speedline motorsport wheel design element is rendered with complete clarity and complete authenticity at a scale of such genuinely and completely immersive magnitude — creates an impression of such absolute and total visual dominance, such complete and permanently convincing racing car authority, and such genuinely and completely overwhelming collector presence that it elevates this most extraordinary of all large-format Porsche diecast model releases to a level of visual magnificence and collector significance that is, quite simply, beyond the capacity of any other color, any other wheel specification, or any other scale to approach with the same completeness, the same power, or the same genuinely and permanently overwhelming impact. KK-Scale has rendered this Black finish with the extraordinary depth, the genuine intensity, and the surface quality perfection that this most serious and the most demanding of all classic Porsche colors demands and that their manufacturing expertise, their genuine passion for authentic Porsche color reproduction, and their complete commitment to delivering the finest possible large-format diecast model quality to the most discerning and the most demanding collectors in the global premium diecast market enables and delivers — a Black of such genuine depth, such absolute authority, and such completely overwhelming surface perfection that it honors the 1996 Porsche 911 993 GT2 with the fullness of seriousness, the completeness of automotive reverence, and the genuinely extraordinary quality of large-format diecast excellence that this most extreme and this most completely legendary of all air-cooled Porsche GT road and competition cars has always and absolutely completely deserved.

Product Specification

• Model Name: 1996 Porsche 911 (993) GT2 Coupe — Speedline Rims — Black
• Scale: 1:12 — Large Format Maximum Detail — Approximately 37-38cm Finished Length
• Manufacturer: KK-Scale
• Product Type: Large Format Diecast Model Car
• Colour: Black — Most Commanding and Most Authoritative Porsche GT Color
• Body Style: Massively Widened Rear-Wheel-Drive GT Racing Homologation Coupe — Full GT2 Specification
• Generation: 993 — Final and Most Celebrated Air-Cooled Porsche 911 Generation
• Variant: GT2 — Most Extreme, Most Powerful, and Most Uncompromising 993 — Homologation Special
• Year of Vehicle Represented: 1996
• Total Production of Original: Just 172 Road-Legal Examples Worldwide — 1995 to 1997
• Engine: 3.6-Litre Twin-Turbocharged Flat-Six — Larger KKK Turbos — 430 HP Road Specification
• Drivetrain: Rear-Wheel Drive Only — No All-Wheel Drive — Complete Racing Priority Specification
• Homologation Purpose: FIA GT2 Class — International Motorsport Competition — Direct Racing Homologation
• Speedline Wheels: Italian Motorsport Specialist — FIA GT2 Competition Specification — Direct Racing Heritage
• GT2 Visual Features: Massively Widened Front & Rear Arches, Fixed Rear Wing, Large Front Air Intakes, Complete GT2 Aerodynamic Package
• Key Features Reproduced: GT2 Wide Body — Speedline Authentic Wheel Detail — Fixed Rear Wing — Front Air Intakes — GT2 Racing Interior — Authentic Porsche GT2 Badging — Black Commanding Finish
• Scale Advantage: 1:12 — Approximately 37-38cm — Most Impressive Road Car Diecast Scale — Maximum Surface Detail
• Color Significance: Black — Most Authoritative and Most Commanding Color — Maximum Racing Car Seriousness
• Historical Significance: Most Extreme Road-Legal Air-Cooled Porsche — 172 Examples Only — Ultimate 993 GT2
• Recommended For: Adult Collectors (14+)
• Display Ready: Yes — Premium Large Format Commanding Presentation
• Packaging: Premium Large Format Collector’s Edition Box