Lanzante launches road-legal Porsche 935 at FoS

Porsche's track only 935 was already pretty exclusive, but that wasn't enough for a couple of customers...

By Matt Bird / Thursday, 11 July 2024 / Loading comments

You’ll remember the Porsche 935. Revealed by Porsche at the Rennsport Reunion in 2019, it demonstrated what could be achieved if the shackles were off a 911 GT2 RS - and a healthy dollop of nostalgia ladled on top. To nobody’s surprise, all 77 examples of a phenomenal 911 made even better on circuit - and rekindling the look of a hugely successful Porsche racer - were snapped up immediately. Five years later and there’s a new version, but not from Porsche…

Following similar conversions for Paganis and McLarens, Lanzante has presented at Goodwood its road-legal Porsche 935. Apparently, two customers were keen on the idea; 18 months of work later and there’s this stunning pair, one with the Marlboro-style livery and the other decked out in ‘a modern reinterpretation of the red and blue Martini livery’. Don’t be surprised if more follow.

The work to make the 935 suitable for the public highway included the obvious stuff like headlights and a handbrake, but also the aspects you might not think of (and which probably took up a chunk of the time) like a bespoke electronics system and reworked suspension to deal with less than perfect tarmac. Lanzante says that every modification has been designed to look like factory fit and, well, it’s already easy to imagine them taking pride of place on the Porsche stand. Just imagine the commotion a Porsche 935 would actually cause on the road. As far as can be guessed, the mechanical spec is unchanged. No issue really, given the calibre of the 700hp, twin-turbo flat-six and seven-speed PDK.

Lanzante hasn’t divulged a price for what it’ll cost to convert a 935 from track day special to road-legal mega car, although if you can afford the base car, the money is probably there for the modifications. It’s going to be a significant investment, for sure, but in a saturated supercar marketplace, it’ll likely seem a price worth paying to stand out. Speaking of which, be prepared to pick your jaw from the floor all the way as you make your way around the Lanzante stand. The 935s aren’t the only Porsche products there, with the Championship-spec TAG 935 on display, as well as a Senna GTR, P1 HDK and recommissioned Speedtail plus, of course, the Mad Mike McLaren drift car. If ever a car could make a street-legal 935 look tame…