In early January, we tackled the Singer All-terrain Competition Study (or ACS for short) and said it was a 911 Safari built by Singer “as perfect as expected”. Well, apparently, Porsche — specifically its legal team — wasn’t so happy about it. You see, about a month after this story was published, Singer contacted us and asked us to replace the ACS press photos originally provided with versions of the images that had all the logos. of Porsche, including the crest badge and the large “PORSCHE” letters that went down the sides and back, digitally removed.
It turns out Porsche’s trademark lawyers argued with Singer’s use of the company’s trademarks. And since we are not complete assholes, we forced the application. Now, however, it looks like Singer needs to step back in launching the ACS even further, as, as he noted, Carscoops, apparently, all appearances and mentions of the vehicle have been removed from the company’s website and social media channels.
It should be noted that ACS is far from the first Singer creation to boldly and proudly present the Porsche brand. The impressive DLS, for example, has the signature “PORSCHE” on the back and, for now, remains intact on Singer’s website. Although, as of this writing, all news posts on this website created prior to the link above appear to have removed your images.
When The unit Asked about Porsche in particular, a spokesman responded in an email:
“We are enthusiastic about our core and we are proud and excited that our community continues to thrive, diversify and evolve, with a lot of creativity and to ensure that cars originally built many decades ago remain on the road.
The scale and quality of individualization and engineering through specialist companies working on older Porsche vehicles is extraordinary: we have the utmost respect for ambition, skill, depth of engineering and the pure inventiveness of this growing industry.
At the same time, we have a responsibility to our customers to ensure that Porsche products, designed and engineered by us, can be clearly and easily identified. This can range from an individual component or piece of clothing that uses our name to whole cars. We do this by making sure that only products created or licensed directly by us can bear the Porsche name.
In applying this rule, we continually try to reach a fair and balanced commitment, while at the same time wishing to see the community thrive, treating all who ask of us and those we contact with the same respect and courtesy. From time to time, reminders are needed, but we are pleased that the Porsche community understands and respects this request. In the meantime, everyone at PCNA will continue to look with pride and joy, while our cars serve as the basis for the most amazing projects imaginable. “
We’ve also contacted Singer for more comments and will update this story when we find out again.
To see what the ACS looks like before Photoshop, here it is Top GearThe first video he made of the car remaining online and unedited. For now.