962CR

💥1992 Schuppan 962CR Prototype💥 A project by Australian racecar driver Vern Schuppan to build a road-going hypercar based on the  Le Mans-winning Porsche 962 race car. A twin-turbo 600hp powered it water-cooled 3.3-litre Type-935 Porsche flat-6 similar to the engine that powered the 962. It was designed by Mike Simcoe (now General Motors' Vice President of Global Design) with a carbon fiber monocoque chassis built by Reynard Motorsport. Priced at $1.5M in 1994, it is among the most expensive vehicles ever sold new. Japanese investors provided funding, but the global economic recession of the early 1990s and the high cost of the car's construction meant that when the financing dried up, Schuppan was forced into bankruptcy. Including the prototype, six cars were built in all, but one was destroyed in a fire. • • Visit www.Story-Cars.com • • #storycars #conceptcar #conceptcars #prototype #porsche #962 #schuppan #962cr #schuppan962cr #mikesimcoe #vernschuppan 📸/📚: @bingo_international @bingo_japan https://www.instagram.com/p/Cnubop8pFLY/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Schuppan 962CR P1, 1991. Selected as Best in Show at the London Concours. The Schuppan is based on a Porsche 962, the project was to use a Reynard carbonfibre chassis with bodywork styled by Mike Simcoe. The plan didn't work out, and just six cars (including 2 LM models and 2 CRs) were built. This example was the project's prototype and development car, and based on a racing machine that had competed at Le Mans in 1990. It would later enter private ownership, spending some time in France before being brought back to the UK, where it has since been fully refurbished and retrimmed.

1993 Schuppan 962CR

Schuppan 962CR

Schuppan 962CR

Schuppan-Porsche 962CR 📸 @nat_twiss. - source Stuttcars - Porsche Road & Race Cars

Porsche 962 CR Schuppan

The Schuppan-Porsche 962CR, a road-going version of the Porsche 962, was the brainchild of Porsche factory driver and 1983 Le Mans winner Vern Schuppan and Toshio Terada, Managing Director of Art Sports, the high-performance car import and marketing division of Art Corporation, Japan. ‍ The two had a shared ambition to create the ultimate supercar. Art Sports had the marketing vision and Vern Schuppan Limited (VSL) the capability in design, R & D and manufacturing. The 962CR was a wildly ambitious project, which swallowed millions of dollars of R & D costs before being cruelly struck down by the stock market crash of 1992. As a result, only four of a projected fifty 962 CR chassis were ever produced, and this car was the last produced by Schuppan's original company VSL. ‍ The 962CR featured high tech carbon composite bodywork and moulded monocoque and was fitted with 500hp-plus 962/71 3.2 litre, fully air-cooled twin-turbo engine with catalytic converters and silencers. Transmission is via a racing 962 type 5-speed synchromesh gearbox with limited-slip differential.

From the custom ‘Team Schuppan’ brake callipers to the CRT TV - which display a live feed from the reversing camera - to the leather-trimmed suspension arm gators and headlamp pod surrounds, the 962CR is packed to the brim with fascinating and well-considered detailing and high build quality. The Schuppan 962CR was truly designed to be a usable and luxurious road version of the car that Porsche designed to win Le Mans.  ‍

Daily Forza Car #7: Schuppan Schuppan Schuppan!

We're headed to a land down under, both in terms of the game where it takes place and where this comes from. In the "glorious" deserts and landscapes of Mexico, we drive the Schuppan 962CR, an Australian sports car made as tribute to Vern Schuppan's wins at Le Mans and the All Sports Japan Championship in a Porsche, itself being based upon the 962.

From the era of low production number, high performance sports cars, this car fits in perfectly with the others from this era. Only 6 of them were made, priced at one of the highest sale costs of any car released, close to $2 mil when they released onto the market. Four are left, with only one of such existing in an undriven state in the US. Unfortunately.

If the lack of Schuppan being a household name, or something close to it, like Koenigsegg or Pagani wasn't enough of a sign, the brand dissolved pretty soon after the cars were made. Lack of funding and the economy tanking killed it quick, almost as quick as the car itself. But, in the end, we got a beautiful tribute to a Porsche, itself not being too far from handling like one.

92 Schuppan 962CR

Schuppan 962CR

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Schuppan 962CR Prototype, 1992. A project by Australian racecar driver Vern Schuppan to build a road-going hypercar based on the  Le Mans-winning Porsche 962 race car. It was powered by a twin-turbo 600hp water-cooled 3.3-litre Type-935 Porsche flat-6 similar to the engine that powered the 962. It was designed by Mike Simcoe (who is now General Motor's Vice President of Global Design) with a carbon fibre monocoque chassis built by Reynard Motorsport. Priced at $1.5 in 1994 it is among the most expensive vehicles ever sold new. Funding was provided by Japanese investors but the global economic recession of the early 1990s and high cost of the car's construction meant that when the financing dried up Schuppan was forced into bankruptcy. Including the prototype, 6 cars were built in all but one has been destroyed in a fire.

Porsche Schuppan 962CR - Black exterior with small accent colour of orange on the inside - stunning and beautiful Boston Car Service