The mysterious high-riding Porsche 911 prototype is back, this time with a few visual updates leaving more questions unanswered. Photographed by our spies at the company’s test center in Weissach, Germany, it has dropped the alleged Styrofoam that filled the wheel arches in the previous set of images and has adopted a completely new wing at the back.
Elsewhere, it sports wide wheel arches and
retains the same wheels, with a larger diameter at the rear. More importantly,
it still rides significantly higher than any other 992 on the market, so could
it be that Porsche is planning a modern 911 Safari? We’d sure hope so, because
it would be the first time they’d use the nameplate since the 1970s model.
This wouldn’t be the first time Porsche
showed interest in relaunching the 911 Safari, because back in 2012, they came
up with a prototype that paid homage to the classic racer. It was based on the
991, featured a jacked-up stance, big bumpers, reinforced wheel arches and a
stripped-down interior.
A new 911 Safari
would be a huge gamble for the German car firm, especially in these challenging
times, so they might actually test a new suspension that may or may not be used
on a future variant of the sports car. And let’s not forget that they could
always shelf the project, so we may never hear anything about it again.
