"Porsche Unseen" previously unreleased concept cars
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any idea what this from the background could be? new macan? or something else?
It defintely looks like a new Macan.
Looking good indeed. Nice, taught, squat stance.
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The Vision 918 Concept.
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The designer hints that those headlights could make it to future models, presumably the next 718.
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Beautiful. And It's kind of reminiscent of the Porsche 914.
...perhaps a bit closer to...this:
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Porsche 919 Street revealed as 900-bhp hypercar never built
Envisioned as an LMP1 race car for the road.
The “Porsche Unseen” teaser campaign is coming to an end as the German sports car marque is introducing all of the designs that have been kept a secret until now. The most exciting of them all is a 919 Street fullsize clay model envisioned as a road-going counterpart of the Le Mans-winning 919 Hybrid.
Created in 2017, the spectacular hypercar uses the same carbon fibre monocoque and 900-bhp hybrid setup as the LMP1 racer from which it also inherited the proportions and wheelbase. Coincidentally, the 919 Street reveal coincides with the 20th anniversary of the Carrera GT celebrated this week by Porsche, which makes us wonder why the clay model isn’t being turned into a road-going production model.
It would follow previous flagships, including the 959, the aforementioned V10 naturally aspirated machine, and the 918 Spyder that followed. A road-going sibling of a top-tier race car certainly wouldn’t be the first for Porsche as the Zuffenhausen brand rolled out a 911 GT1 Straßenversion back in the 1990s.
Getting back to the 919 Street at hand, the design is obviously inspired by the race car. From the wraparound windscreen and small windows to the central fin and chunky wheel arches, it really does look like an LMP1 for the road. Porsche designed a unique set of wheels and moulded the headlights after those of the 919 Hybrid.
The rear end design represents a departure from the endurance racer as it lacks the giant wing while gaining a full-width LED light strip akin to current Porsche road cars. The top-exit exhaust is reminiscent of the 918 Spyder, while rearward visibility is a bit of an issue because there’s no rear window. The doors swing upwards and the rear diffuser is one of the largest we’ve ever seen on a car intended for road use.
If you’d like to see the 919 Street in the metal (well, clay), Porsche says it will have it up on display at its Museum in the Zuffenhausen district of Stuttgart in 2021. Meanwhile, a book entitled “Porsche Unseen” is coming out today with details about all these previously top-secret designs.
Envisioned as an LMP1 race car for the road.
The “Porsche Unseen” teaser campaign is coming to an end as the German sports car marque is introducing all of the designs that have been kept a secret until now. The most exciting of them all is a 919 Street fullsize clay model envisioned as a road-going counterpart of the Le Mans-winning 919 Hybrid.
Created in 2017, the spectacular hypercar uses the same carbon fibre monocoque and 900-bhp hybrid setup as the LMP1 racer from which it also inherited the proportions and wheelbase. Coincidentally, the 919 Street reveal coincides with the 20th anniversary of the Carrera GT celebrated this week by Porsche, which makes us wonder why the clay model isn’t being turned into a road-going production model.
It would follow previous flagships, including the 959, the aforementioned V10 naturally aspirated machine, and the 918 Spyder that followed. A road-going sibling of a top-tier race car certainly wouldn’t be the first for Porsche as the Zuffenhausen brand rolled out a 911 GT1 Straßenversion back in the 1990s.
Getting back to the 919 Street at hand, the design is obviously inspired by the race car. From the wraparound windscreen and small windows to the central fin and chunky wheel arches, it really does look like an LMP1 for the road. Porsche designed a unique set of wheels and moulded the headlights after those of the 919 Hybrid.
The rear end design represents a departure from the endurance racer as it lacks the giant wing while gaining a full-width LED light strip akin to current Porsche road cars. The top-exit exhaust is reminiscent of the 918 Spyder, while rearward visibility is a bit of an issue because there’s no rear window. The doors swing upwards and the rear diffuser is one of the largest we’ve ever seen on a car intended for road use.
If you’d like to see the 919 Street in the metal (well, clay), Porsche says it will have it up on display at its Museum in the Zuffenhausen district of Stuttgart in 2021. Meanwhile, a book entitled “Porsche Unseen” is coming out today with details about all these previously top-secret designs.
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Man.... that destructive realization of how small these cars are...If you want a street legal LMP1 car the closest your going to get is the Toyota GR Sport.
Or if you can find one a Dauer 962
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That concept looks amazing. If the EV 718 ends up inheriting those headlights, Porsche would further differenciate it from the 911 design, which is always good news.
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By now Porsche will likely have been flooded with enquiries from very rich porsche fans who would like a 992 based Lemans Legend or a 718 GT3 based Vision Spyder.
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Porsche just showed why they are so appreciated - they just showed us several unreleased concept cars, which are gorgeous without exception, but they present it humbly in some shitty basement, like yeah they are great but they were not good enough to build something on them - meanwhile they make better than ever performing cars in both ICE and EV segments, and make very eye pleasing designs for them.
On the other hand we have BMW who made a fugly concept car, showed it proudly to the world, then made an even uglier production car and makes fun of people who doesn’t accept it, pathetic.
Good to see this contrast, only in comparison do we see who is genuinely great and who is not.
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