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Porsche 928 S Tobacco Metallic GT Spirit 1:18

Porsche 928 S Tobacco Metallic GT Spirit 1:18
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Specifications
Car Brand
Porsche
Model Manufacturer
GT Spirit
Scale
1:18
Material
Resin
Model Condition
New Model
SKU
GT1005
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About the Porsche 928 S Tobacco Metallic GT Spirit 1:18

TL;DR: GT Spirit's 1:18 resin Porsche 928 S reproduces the 1981 front-engined V8 grand tourer in Tobacco Metallic. Sealed resin construction captures the 928's flat, wedge-shaped bodywork, a genuinely different Porsche silhouette from the rear-engined 911 most collectors associate with the marque.

Porsche built the 928 as a genuine attempt to move beyond the 911, and its flat, wedge-shaped body still looks distinctly different from anything else the marque made.

Sealed Resin on a Flat, Wedge-Shaped Body

The 928's long, flat bonnet and low, pop-up headlamp nose are a different surfacing challenge to the rounded 911 shapes GT Spirit and its peers tool more often, and sealed resin construction handles that flat, panel-heavy body with tight, consistent lines rather than the visible seams a diecast hinge mechanism can introduce along long straight edges. Tobacco Metallic is a warm, understated brown that period 928 buyers genuinely ordered, a colour choice that suits the car's grand-touring character far better than a bright sports-car red would. As a sealed piece, this model offers no opening doors, a trade that favours the crisp surfacing of that distinctive nose and bonnet line over interior access. It rewards a slow look across its length rather than a glance, which suits a car built for long-distance comfort rather than outright drama.

The 928's Place Outside the 911 Story

Porsche developed the 928 through the 1970s as a front-engined, water-cooled V8 grand tourer, at one point intended as a genuine successor to the 911 rather than a companion model, and it carried that ambition through to a long production run despite the 911 ultimately outliving it. For a Grand Tourers shelf, the 928 S offers a genuinely different Porsche story, useful for showing collectors that the marque's history includes more than one engineering philosophy.

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