Porsche concept car from 1991?

[Trae]

Looks like Porsche was trying to produce something like the 500E in 1991.

https://autos.yahoo.com/photos/inside-porsche-s-collection-of-secret-concept-cars-1414421353-slideshow/


See slide #8!

 

[gerryvz]

Hi Trae,

This article is about the current "special exhibit" at the Porsche Museum in Zuffenhausen ... a display of Porsche concept cars that they did over the years. Including protos of the Panamera. I just visited and saw all this not two weeks ago....

I didn't take any photos of any of the secret protos but here is an "overview" photo I took with my phone inside the Museum there.

Cheers,
Gerry

 

[Trae]

I was reading about the 1991 989 Study/slide #8: Porsche’s original plan for a front-engined, four-door, V8-powered “family sports car” came about in the early '90s with this concept. It was intended to go on the market by the mid-90s, but the development and potential production costs skyrocketed and so the idea was ditched, for the time being, before being revived as the Panamera.

 

[gerryvz]

Porsche was in pretty dire straits at the end of the 1980s and early 1990s, which undoubtedly had a fair amount to do with the decision to delay that four-door sports car concept.