Have you heard of Type7, which was created as a "storytelling platform that travels the world"?
Type 7 was the name given to the first prototype of the car that would later become the Porsche 911, and this site bearing the name Type 7 presents a variety of stories that delve deeply into the world of Porsche.
Recently, Type7 released a new video about LOOPWHEELER, a Japanese sweatshirt manufacturer.
LOOPWHEELER is said to be a very limited manufacturer that only uses fabric made on a loopwheel machine.
The company's founder, Satoshi Suzuki, has been working with these loopwheel knitting machines for a long time and has said that he feels as if these machines, and the sweatshirts that are produced on them, have a life of their own.
As Suzuki said in the video, Porsches are machines and do not have a "life" like humans.
However, when you drive a Porsche and spend a lot of time with it, you start to feel like your car has a life of its own, and you really start to feel that driving a Porsche is like "having a conversation with your Porsche."
That may sound cool when I say it, but in my case, I dote on him so much that I just yell, "Oh, he's so cute, I love him so much, I love him so much!!" and in most cases it really can't be called a "dialogue" (laughs).
...And leaving aside the pointless conversation between me and Porsche, here's a nice video of LOOPWHEELER and Porsche (7:32):
Suzuki-san said that although he didn't actually measure the frequency and so couldn't know physically, he thought the sound of Kanekichi Kogyo's loopwheel knitting machine sounded very similar to the sound of an air-cooled Porsche engine.
Oh, and unfortunately they're all sold out now, but there was also this cute Porsche Loopwheeler.
I wanted it~
Related Sites:
◆Tpye7 Official Site
◆LOOPWHEELER
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I'm Rika, the author of this article. Ever since Porsche 911 became my favorite car, I've become totally addicted to Porsche, and I can't stop loving Porsche, so I started this blog. My favorite cars are 911 Carrera (991.2), 911 Carrera Cabriolet (992.1), and 911 Carrera T (992.1).
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