Spy photo team has been snapping the facelifted Porsche 911 for at least a couple of years now, and finally, this summer, we’ll get to see the 992.2 without a strip of disguise. Judging from these latest images, how Porsche’s icon will look will depend greatly on which option boxes you tick. Fresh images taken at Germany’s Nurburgring Nordschleife, where the revised sports car is undergoing final tests, appear to show a 911 Carrera or Carrera S both with and without the latest version of the Aerokit package that has been an option staple for decades.
Both cars feature the same new LED
headlights and get a fresh set of bumpers, but while the plainer car has a
fairly elegant front end with a pair of slim horizontal bars bisecting the
giant air intakes ahead of each front wheel, the second car takes a much more
aggressive approach. It features a set of vertical grille vanes that could be
adaptive to better control airflow and tailor downforce to the driving
situation. They almost look like a shark’s gills, an impression that’s
reinforced by the shape of the headlights, and while they definitely make the
911 look tougher, we imagine they’ll prove controversial, and that not every
potential Porsche buyer will be a fan.
The rear of the ‘regular’ 911 is equipped
with a conventional active rear spoiler, an upper grille split by the
high-level brake light and two tailpipes pushed far away from each other, but
again, the Aerokit car takes a very different tack. It ditches the pop-up wing
for a fixed GT3-style spoiler that contains the center taillight, meaning it
also gets a new engine grille below the rear window. And the tailpipes –
presumably part of the sports exhaust that will also be available with and
without the Aerokit – move closer to the center of the car.
As a bonus, the spy photographers were
also able to snap a prototype 911 convertible during the same test and kitted
out with the same stock front and rear bumpers and exhaust as the wingless
coupe.