{"product_id":"porsche-911-993-rwb-rauh-welt-songoku-coupe-2024-purple","title":"Porsche 911 993 RWB Rauh-Welt Son Goku 2024 Purple GT Spirit 1:18","description":"\u003cblockquote class=\"vr-tldr\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eA resin 1:18 scale model of the RWB Porsche 911 (993) 'Son Goku', built by GT Spirit in purple — the last air-cooled 911 generation reimagined through Akira Nakai's wide-body craft.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Porsche 911 Type 993, produced from 1993 to 1998, holds a singular place in the 911 lineage as the final generation to use an air-cooled flat-six. Rauh-Welt Begriff, the Japanese workshop founded by Akira Nakai in Chiba, has made that platform the foundation for some of the most recognisable wide-body road cars in contemporary car culture. This \u003cspan class=\"vr-scale\"\u003e1:18\u003c\/span\u003e scale model from GT Spirit places the 'Son Goku' build — one of Nakai's named one-off creations — into the display cabinet with fidelity to its defining purple livery and exaggerated bodywork.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2 id=\"porsche-993-last-air-cooled-911\"\u003eThe Last Air-Cooled 911\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 993-generation 911, built between 1993 and 1998, closed the chapter on Porsche's unbroken run of air-cooled rear-engined sports cars. Its 3.6-litre flat-six, cooled by air rather than water, defines an engineering philosophy that Porsche engineers had refined across three decades. The compact standard body dimensions make the wide-body transformation executed by RWB all the more dramatic. To Porsche collectors, the 993 represents a fixed point: the last of a lineage that began with the original 901.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2 id=\"rwb-songoku-nakai-wide-body-build\"\u003eRauh-Welt Begriff and the Identity of 'Son Goku'\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAkira Nakai, known universally as Nakai-san, applies each wide-body conversion by hand, cutting and bonding overfenders directly onto the Porsche body. Every car leaves his Chiba workshop with a unique name. 'Son Goku' takes its name from Son Goku, the central character of the Dragon Ball Z manga and anime series, and carries a deep purple livery that makes the reference explicit. These are fully road-registered, street-driven vehicles — not race cars — and each build is an unrepeatable object. No two RWB cars share the same specification.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2 id=\"gt-spirit-1-18-resin-model-rwb-993\"\u003eGT Spirit's 1:18 Scale Model in Resin\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGT Spirit produces this \u003cspan class=\"vr-scale\"\u003e1:18\u003c\/span\u003e scale model in resin, consistent with their standard approach across the entire \u003cspan class=\"vr-scale\"\u003e1:18\u003c\/span\u003e range. Resin casting allows GT Spirit to reproduce complex surface geometry — the wide overfenders, the low ride height, the layered aero additions that define the RWB aesthetic — with precision that diecast tooling rarely achieves for heavily modified bodies. The model has no opening parts; surface and paint accuracy are where the detail resides. The purple livery, central to the Son Goku identity, is rendered in full across the bodywork.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2 id=\"display-cabinet-porsche-993-rwb-collection\"\u003eIn the Display Cabinet\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe RWB Son Goku sits naturally alongside other GT Spirit wide-body Porsche 911 builds in \u003cspan class=\"vr-scale\"\u003e1:18\u003c\/span\u003e, and pairs equally well with 993-generation Carrera or GT2 models that represent the standard production car this build began as. The purple colouring and anime cultural reference give it a visual anchor point distinct from more conventionally liveried 911s. Collectors who track Nakai-san's named builds — Stella, Pandora One, Rotana — will find Son Goku a coherent addition. The resin construction makes handling minimal; a glass cabinet is the appropriate home.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GT SPIRIT","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":60162538930560,"sku":"GT571","price":107.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0922\/8828\/7104\/files\/vroomi-gt571-front34-v2.jpg?v=1792500769","url":"https:\/\/vroomimodels.com\/products\/porsche-911-993-rwb-rauh-welt-songoku-coupe-2024-purple","provider":"Vroomi","version":"1.0","type":"link"}