MODEL CAR GROUP

In the entire and extraordinary universe of custom Porsche culture — a universe populated by some of the most creative, most passionate, and most completely committed automotive artists, builders, and enthusiasts anywhere on the globe — there exists one name, one philosophy, and one completely unique and unmistakable aesthetic vision that stands apart from everything else with an authority, a mystique, and a cultural significance so profound, so completely individual, and so deeply and permanently embedded in the consciousness of the global custom Porsche community that it has transcended the boundaries of mere automotive customization and achieved the status of genuine contemporary automotive art. That name is RWB — Rauh-Welt Begriff — and Model Car Group has honored one of the most celebrated, most visually spectacular, and most deeply significant RWB creations in the brand’s extraordinary history with a breathtaking 1:18 scale resin masterpiece — the Porsche 911 997-2 2020 RWB Coupe N23 Old & New JPS — presented in the most dramatically appropriate, most visually powerful, and most completely and perfectly suited color that this extraordinary machine has ever worn — a deep, commanding, and absolutely magnificent Black — creating a collector’s model of such overwhelming visual drama, such authentic RWB cultural significance, and such outstanding Model Car Group manufacturing quality that it stands as one of the most important, most desirable, and most completely extraordinary custom Porsche resin model releases available to collectors anywhere in the world today.
RWB — Rauh-Welt Begriff — the Japanese custom Porsche brand and philosophy created by the visionary, the legendary, and the completely unique master builder Akira Nakai — is one of the most fascinating, most culturally significant, and most passionately discussed phenomena in the entire contemporary custom car world. Nakai-san — working from his base in Japan and travelling the world to personally build each and every RWB Porsche by hand, one at a time, with his own hands and his own tools — has created a body of work of such extraordinary creative vision, such completely distinctive and immediately recognizable aesthetic character, and such genuine and authentic automotive artistry that each RWB Porsche he creates is not merely a modified car but a completely unique and genuinely individual work of automotive art — a one-of-a-kind creation that carries in every panel, every body modification, and every carefully considered detail the direct and personal creative imprint of one of the most gifted and most genuinely visionary custom car builders of the modern era.
The RWB philosophy — expressed in the Japanese phrase “Rauh-Welt”, meaning “Rough World” in German, a reference to the raw, uncompromising, and completely unapologetic aesthetic vision that drives every RWB creation — is built on a set of principles and a creative approach that is as simple in its statement as it is extraordinary in its execution and its results. Nakai-san’s vision is to take the Porsche 911 — already one of the most celebrated, most beautifully designed, and most passionately collected sports cars in the entire history of the automobile — and transform it through a comprehensive program of dramatic body widening, aggressive aerodynamic enhancement, and carefully considered visual modification into something of an entirely different order of visual drama, competitive aggression, and completely uncompromising custom automotive personality. The signature RWB wide-body treatment — with its dramatically flared fenders that extend aggressively beyond the original body line, its custom front and rear aerodynamic elements, its dramatically lowered ride height, and its characteristic massive wheel and tyre combination that fills the widened arches with a completeness and a visual authority that transforms the 911’s already beautiful proportions into something of an entirely different order of visual drama and custom automotive magnificence — has become one of the most immediately recognizable, most widely discussed, and most passionately admired custom automotive aesthetics in the entire contemporary custom car culture world.
The N23 designation — identifying this specific RWB creation as the twenty-third Porsche built by Nakai-san under the Old & New sub-brand of the broader RWB family — carries with it a layer of documented provenance, individual creative history, and completely authentic RWB cultural significance that elevates this model far beyond the status of a merely beautiful custom Porsche replica and into the realm of a genuinely significant and genuinely documented piece of contemporary automotive cultural history. Each RWB Porsche that Nakai-san creates receives an individual number and an individual name — a tradition that reflects the completely personal, completely handcrafted, and completely individual nature of every RWB creation and that gives each finished car an identity, a history, and a documented cultural significance that no mass-produced vehicle can ever possess or approximate.
The Old & New designation — the specific RWB sub-brand under which this N23 creation was built — represents Nakai-san’s direct personal brand name, the original and most authentically Nakai-san expression of the RWB philosophy in its most pure and most completely personal form. Old & New cars are the most directly personal, the most immediately and completely Nakai-san of all RWB creations — the vehicles that most completely and most authentically represent the master builder’s individual vision, his personal aesthetic preferences, and his most deeply felt and most completely honest creative expression — making the Old & New N23 not merely a celebrated RWB build but the most genuinely authentic and most directly personal expression of Nakai-san’s extraordinary creative vision available in the RWB family of custom Porsche creations.
The 2020 build year of this specific RWB creation places it in the most recent and most completely developed chapter of Nakai-san’s extraordinary creative career — a period in which the RWB aesthetic has reached its most refined, its most completely accomplished, and its most deeply personal expression, built on more than two decades of continuous creative development, accumulated craft experience, and the genuine and authentic evolution of a creative vision that has grown progressively more distinctive, more accomplished, and more completely individual with every year of Nakai-san’s extraordinary building career. A 2020 RWB by Nakai-san is the work of a master craftsman and creative artist at the absolute peak of his considerable and completely unique powers — and the N23 Old & New JPS is a creation of such complete and overwhelming visual impact, such authentic Nakai-san creative vision, and such genuine and documented RWB cultural significance that it represents one of the most important and most desirable subjects that any premium resin model manufacturer could choose to honor with the finest possible scale model treatment.
The JPS reference — evoking the legendary John Player Special black and gold livery that became one of the most famous, most immediately recognizable, and most passionately celebrated motorsport color schemes in the entire history of Formula One racing through its association with the Lotus Formula One team during one of the sport’s most celebrated and most romantically remembered competitive eras — adds an additional and deeply significant cultural dimension to the N23’s already extraordinary visual and historical identity. The combination of the RWB wide-body treatment, the 911 997-2 platform’s inherently beautiful and athletically resolved proportions, and the deep, rich Black of the JPS-inspired livery creates a visual statement of such completely overwhelming, such immediately arresting, and such permanently and completely unforgettable impact that it is simply and completely one of the most spectacular and most visually extraordinary custom Porsche creations in the entire history of the RWB brand — and one of the most naturally and most completely appropriate subjects for premium 1:18 scale resin model treatment that the contemporary custom Porsche collector community has ever had the pleasure of encountering.
In Black — the deep, commanding, and absolutely magnificent JPS-inspired black that clothes every surface of the N23’s dramatically wide and aggressively aerodynamic body with such complete visual authority and such overwhelming presence — the Porsche 911 997-2 RWB N23 Old & New JPS achieves a visual statement that is simply beyond comparison, beyond description, and beyond the reach of any color other than this perfect, commanding, and absolutely magnificent black to communicate with the completeness and the power that this extraordinary creation demands and deserves. Black on the RWB’s dramatically widened body — its aggressively flared fenders, its dramatically lowered stance, its custom aerodynamic elements, and its overall impression of barely contained performance aggression and completely uncompromising custom automotive authority — creates an impression of such complete and total visual dominance, such overwhelming and completely irresistible collector appeal, and such authentic JPS-inspired motorsport heritage that it is one of the finest, most dramatic, and most completely satisfying color and body combinations in the entire history of the custom Porsche world.
Model Car Group brings their premium resin manufacturing expertise, their deep commitment to dimensional accuracy and surface detail excellence, and their authentic passion for the world’s most extraordinary custom and performance Porsche subjects to this RWB N23 Old & New JPS release with results of outstanding quality and deeply significant collector appeal — faithfully reproducing every dramatic body modification, every aggressive aerodynamic element, and every authentic RWB-specific detail of Nakai-san’s extraordinary N23 creation with the precision, care, and genuine passion that this completely unique and completely irreplaceable piece of contemporary automotive art demands and completely deserves.