1/29/2024 0 Comments Light blue carThe illuminated door sills proudly display the Sally Special name and a debossed Cars logo features on the leather door storage unit. There’s plenty of fun on show elsewhere inside the car. We developed a special Pepita houndstooth fabric upholstery in three colours, combined with chalk-coloured leather and stitching in Speed Blue.” “At the same time, it was important to us not to forget everyday usability and practicality. “The special Sallybluemetallic is used in the interior as well, where it creates obvious highlights and subtle details that will hopefully bring a smile to the future owner’s face,” says Daniela. The one-off 911 features Sally Carrera’s tattoo from the Cars movie on its rear – a reminder, says Sally, of her high-octane life ‘living’ in California Easier said than done, of course, but take one look at the finished car and these qualities brilliantly shine through. That meant giving the real-life Sally a sense of fun and down-to-earth nature, while not forgetting the style and elegance the movie version possessed. One of the objectives of the project was to create a car that captured the spirit of the movie version of the car, says Daniela Miloševic, Designer, Colour and Trim at Porsche. Special valve caps featuring the Cars logo complete the look. They have a ‘five-arm design’ rim that has been adapted to the 20-/21-inch wheel dimensions of the current 911 (type 992) generation in a distinct nod to those on the 911 (type 996) on which Sally Carrera is based. Look closely and you’ll notice that Sally Carrera’s ‘tattoo’ under her rear wing has been recreated for the real-life car, while the movie vehicle’s Turbo-look rims have been brought to life by Porsche designers in Weissach. Who knows what happens when you select ‘Kachow!’ on the driving mode switch of the Porsche 911 Sally Special? The base 911 Carrera GTS (type 992) car is fitted with a manual gearbox, and its exterior is painted in a unique custom colour – called Sallybluemetallic – created for the project. Boris Apenbrink, Director, Porsche Exclusive Manufaktur vehicles, says that the 911 Sally Special was one of the most “intense, emotional and detailed” projects that the Porsche Sonderwunsch team has ever worked on. The project – which kicked off in November 2021 – took 10 months to complete. And one lucky person, if they win the auction, will soon own it. The result is a one-of-a-kind Porsche 911 Carrera GTS full of the bespoke touches and attention to detail that we come to expect from the experts at Porsche Exclusive Manufaktur and their Style Porsche partners. We asked ourselves: if Sally were built today as a road-approved model, what would she look like?” The creative vision for this special Porsche 911 was to ask what Sally would look like if built as a road-legal car today “Sally Carrera loves to drive – that was our inspiration. “We decided early on that we wanted to create a completely drivable 911 – inspired by Sally Carrera, but just not an exact copy,” says Jay Ward, Creative Director of Franchise of Pixar Animation Studios. Movie star: the Porsche 911 Sally Special is not just a one-off, but a car with a meaningful purpose – to raise awareness and funds for two profound causesĬalled the 911 Sally Special, the car was a collaboration between the creative design team from Pixar Animation Studios (producers of the movie series), the Sonderwunsch team at Porsche Exclusive Manufaktur in Stuttgart and designers from Style Porsche in Weissach. However, a unique one-off Porsche 911 Carrera GTS, inspired by Sally Carrera, has just been revealed built and will be auctioned off at this year’s Monterey Car Week in California, with proceeds going to two special charities. Up until now Sally was only available in CGI form or a single full-scale, non-working, static model. To Porsche fans, the standout star of Cars, Pixar/Disney’s hit animated movie series, was the beautiful, blue 911 (type 996), Sally Carrera. Inspired by the fun-loving Porsche from the Cars animated film franchise, a unique and fun 911 has been brought to fruition by the movie’s creative design team and the experts at Porsche Exclusive Manufaktur and Style Porsche to help raise funds for charity Porsche x Pixar: meet the real-life Sally Carrera How the cool, blue star of the Cars movies inspired the 911 Sally Special
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