Porsche will sit lightweight carbon fiber wipers on your new 911 places for the low, low price of only $ 1,310 – Jalopnik

I am sure that many of you have the same condition as me, where your brain instead of just going to sleep at night to play for an hour with online car figures. Many brands nowadays have extremely advanced, with many options and fantastic 3D rings, but Porsche’s is perhaps the best. There is just so many things to add to modern Porsches, from the PTS colors and other cosmetic options to new technology functions, and Porsche constantly updates the configurator.

The other night when I entered the configurator for the 2026 911, I noticed a new option that I had never seen before: lightweight carbon fiber windscreen wiper arms. And it is not only degraded to models such as the GT3 that already offer lightweight packages and many carbon options, you can get the carbon wipers on a base 911 Carrera. The best of all is that the configurator even reflects them on the car.

Yes, for $ 1,310 these things like hell are expensive, but they actually have a performance benefit, like a very small one. Porsche says that the wiper arms of carbon fiber are 50% lighter than the standard, and the design is “aerodynamically optimized”. Even the smallest piece of improvement makes a difference, especially for nerds that order something like that, and I will say they look pretty cool. (The photo below is what the normal look in the configurator.) The base 911 Carrera has not many other exterior options of carbon fiber, apart from the $ 4,040 carbon fiber roof, but the updated GT3 offers a $ 37,310 lightweight package that saves more than 48 pounds. So what is some thousands for some carbon fiber windscreen wipers?

This is not the first car of Volkswagen Group that offers carbon fiber wipers-in fact, Bugatti was the first company ever to make carbon drivers with the sports version of the Chiron that was unveiled in 2018. Said Bugatti, “[They] No longer needed the articulated joints that normally occur on conventional wipers. The function of these joints is integrated in the carbon fiber structure of the wiper arms. In addition, the windscreen wiper arm tips, which are made of aluminum, produced by a weight-saving 3D print process. This means that the new carbon fiber rhymes are 77 percent or 1.4 kg lighter than their predecessors. Thanks to the new material, the wiper arms also have a new profile that makes improved aerodynamic properties possible. “That is the drop-down effect on the work!

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