A Porsche 911 Turbo is already about one of the best winter-beater supercar on the planet due to its compact dimensions, nice visibility, traction-boosting rear-biased weight distribution and all-wheel drive.

However this modified, Safari-style 911 Turbo noticed by Matt in or round Chicago appears prefer it might face down the sort of climate catastrophe solely Hollywood can dream up.

The smaller door mirrors and non-LED taillight lenses inform us it’s a 997.1-generation 911 Turbo constructed between 2006 and 2008. These have been the final automobiles with the famed Hans Mezger-designed flat-six, and it made 473 hp (480 PS) and as much as 502 lb-ft (680 Nm) of torque in overboost mode. But when the three.6-liter engine has been handled to the identical stage of upgrades lavished on the chassis, it might nicely be making much more.

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We don’t know something concerning the 911, which was snapped outdoors a Porsche supplier and uploaded to the Chicagoland Petrolheads and Automotive Spotters Fb group. However the footage present it’s been handled to a suspension carry to enhance the bottom clearance and make room for a set of 17-inch HRE cross-spoke alloy wheels wrapped in BF Goodrich All Terrain rubber. The completed bundle appears very near the prototype Porsche Safari 911s our spy photographers have snapped a number of instances this 12 months.

There are refined body-color arch spats on the entrance fenders, bullbars entrance and rear, and 4 huge spotlights mounted in a pod on the hood. There are not any inside pics, so we are able to’t be certain if it’s working a six-speed guide transmission or the elective five-speed Tiptronic auto (the game-changing PDK didn’t arrive till the 997.2 in late 2009). However we are able to spy a rear cage and the little hump on the sprint high that signifies it has the elective Sport Chrono pack.

Even getting on for 15 years down the road, these Porsches aren’t low cost. Essentially the most accessible ones we discovered on Auto Tempest have been nonetheless over $70,000, and that doesn’t embody the price of the conversion – the wheels alone would run to over $9k. We’d like to day by day this beast by means of winter, what about you?

Due to Matt Zaiff for the photographs!