Freedom Has a Flat-Six
04 July 2026
Skye, or the promise of a million miles.
There was no love at first sight. There was an idea planted in childhood, one that took years to find its exact shape.
For him, a car without a manual gearbox, without power sent to the rear wheels, without the raw texture of an unassisted engine, doesn't really deserve to be talked about.
Three non-negotiable conditions. And only one brand has held to them, generation after generation, with the same stubbornness: Porsche, refusing the easy compromise and beating rivals with more horsepower on paper. In the middle of it all sits the 911.
A silhouette refined over six decades, never betrayed.
On the current 992, almost everything is turbocharged. So only one option made sense: the naturally aspirated 4.0 litre flat six born on the track, the one from the GT3 range. No turbo to fake the throttle response. Just an engine that revs hard because that's what it knows how to do, and that's exactly why he chose it.
Reducing this car to a spec sheet would miss the point. What matters is the road that led there. The decision didn't happen overnight. There were whole evenings spent arguing over configurations, the online configurator opened and closed on repeat, versions wanted then reluctantly dropped, more times than he'd like to admit.
The real trigger came from somewhere else entirely: a video. Sam, on SeenThroughGlass, driving Tino's 991 Touring, Eva, through the Swiss Alps in August 2020. He still remembers it. That video is what sold him on Porsche's "Touring" recipe: the deliberate understatement, the stripped back approach that takes nothing away from the pleasure. A pure enthusiast's package, the kind that barely exists anywhere else today. At least that's how he sees it.
In one word? Freedom. He doesn't look any further than that. The best memory refuses to fit into a single moment. It's more of an accumulation: ninety three thousand nine hundred and eleven kilometres of possibility, so far. And what comes to mind first isn't the roads themselves.
It's the people he met along the way, the ones he'd never have crossed paths with without her. "Home is wherever you park it." He doesn't have a favourite road, or rather he has too many to name just one. The more bends, the better. Salt stripped coastal roads, gravel or sand tracks, landscapes under snow: she feels at home almost everywhere. Home, he says, is simply wherever you park her.
A passion above all.
His passion for Porsche is six years old. Since then, the 911 has been his unicorn, his word for it. He trained as a mechanic and studied engineering with one goal in mind: developing combustion engines.
It was his dream job, up until the mid 2000s. Then things worked out differently, and a slightly different path took shape. His passion for engineering and engines only grew.
Not glamorous, but necessary
His first car was nothing like a childhood dream. A silver grey 2003 Touran, bought from friends about twenty years ago, right in the middle of his studies. A car built to handle constant moves across Europe. Not glamorous. But necessary, and he's still grateful for it.
The dream goes on.
Today, the dream he's still chasing has a name: Skye. A million miles of memories to build with her. Not a destination, no finish line to cross. Just the wish to keep going: more roads, more bends, more people to meet along the way.
The recipe hasn't changed since day one: three pedals, rear wheel drive, six unassisted cylinders. Everything else, the kilometres covered, the people met, the mountain passes taken at dawn, is just what that recipe makes possible.
