{"id":75893,"date":"2024-08-20T00:03:43","date_gmt":"2024-08-20T04:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=75893"},"modified":"2024-08-20T00:03:43","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T04:03:43","slug":"1144184_kalmar-returns-with-modern-take-on-the-porsche-959","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=75893","title":{"rendered":"Kalmar returns with modern take on the Porsche 959"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kalmar Automotive is a Danish company that specializes in restomodding Porsche 911s<\/strong>, particularly the 993 generation. It entered the U.S. earlier this year with help from California’s Canepa<\/a>, starting with a single model, the 7-97 Classic<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now Kalmar has revealed a more adventurous build that looks to channel the Porsche 959<\/a>. Called the Kalmar 9X9<\/strong>, the car made its debut on Friday at The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering, one of the premier events of the recent 2024 Monterey Car Week<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The 9X9 is offered in three guises. The standard 9X9 is the most powerful. It’s designed for grand touring and comes with a turbocharged 3.8-liter flat-6 delivering 930 hp<\/strong>. It also comes with a dual-clutch automatic transmission and all-wheel-drive.<\/p>\n

For track driving, there’s a Sport version that uses a turbocharged 3.0-liter flat-6 tuned to deliver 650 hp. This version also has all-wheel drive<\/strong> but skips the dual-clutch automatic in favor of a manual transmission. The Sport is lighter than the standard 9X9, and its suspension is tuned more for carving up a track than for grand touring.<\/p>\n

\"Kalmar<\/p>\n

Kalmar 9X9<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The third version is the Leichtbau, German for \u201clightweight construction.\u201d This version is the lightest of the three, and features a 4.0-liter flat-6 that’s naturally aspirated. The engine makes 530 hp and is mated to a manual transmission, and here drive is to the rear wheels only. The claimed weight is only 2,811 pounds<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Each of the 9X9 versions starts off as a 993-generation 911. The cars are stripped down and given a roll cage (in this case hidden), plus various chassis modifications including bespoke suspension developed by Italy’s Danisi Engineering. The brakes are also a custom setup developed by CarboBrake, and include titanium calipers built using 3D printing.<\/p>\n

\"Kalmar<\/p>\n

Kalmar 9X9<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Kalmar hasn’t provided any performance specifications but said the body work can create close to 3,200 pounds of downforce at the peak, and simulations indicate a N\u00fcrburgring lap time of about seven minutes.<\/p>\n

Kalmar only builds a handful of cars each year, and since each is made to a customer’s individual specifications, each Kalmar is a true one-off design. The company is taking orders for its 9X9 and said the first examples will be delivered in mid-2025. U.S. orders can be placed through Canepa, a company that incidentally specializes in the sale, restoration, and customization of the Porsche 959.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kalmar Automotive is a Danish company that specializes in restomodding Porsche 911s, particularly the 993 generation. It entered the U.S. earlier this year with help from California’s Canepa, starting with a single model, the 7-97 Classic. Now Kalmar has revealed a more adventurous build that looks to channel the Porsche 959. Called the Kalmar 9X9, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}