More spy photos.

I'm really looking forward to this release. Hopefully it will be out when I'm ready to purchase in the spring. See story here.

 

I like this possible 991 targa:

 

That's really pretty !! Can't wait to see some more photos Love the Stone Guards.

 

Perhaps too soon.
I'd like to see the 991.2 or the GT cars arrive so that Porsche can roll out their R&D in handling, chassis setup, electronics, the steering bugbear, the cabin buffeting, and the introduction of stuff like a backup camera, adaptive cruise, etc.
Perhaps the Targa will bring these updates itself. Anything's possible. : )

 

Why do people keep calling this a targa, when it looks like a convertible to me?
Jim

 

Thats camouflage, Jim Sneaky Porsche! Notice the led light strip on the back is blacked out, too.

 

The camo itself suggests the rear window is plastic. If it's glass, as I hope, then they've got a potential win. If it's just a goofy "soft window Targa" ... that would be ... a mistake.

My expectation and interesting in the 991 Targa stems from the 997 Targa being a sort of hatchback design -- making the rather capacious rear cabin area of these new 911's fully accessible and yet with the hard top structure I'd prefer over a rag top. Here's hoping that rear section connects quite differently and produces the hatchback design and a manually (light) removable roof section. Sadly, I think the luxury car buyer demands a retractable hard top Cabrio "experience" so I guess there will be motors and cables, seals and flaps, springs and strings ... rather like the Ferrari California, which I think is a disastrously bad design and a ludicrously heavy car ... a example of when good designers put design ahead of good engineering.

We'll see. At present, I'm sort of hoping the GT3 is based on a C4S tub and fully prepared for a retrofit of rear seats for school bus duties ... sacrilege!

 

Meanwhile, I am hoping that there will be a fitted carpet piece in the back seat-less GT3 that could be dropped in the rear of my C2S after removal of the back seats, to cover up the rather unsightly latches and screws and whatnot. For dog carrying duties....

The 997 back seat bottoms (or removal thereof) was perfection in their simplicity IMO. Plus I actually liked the carpeted center transmission tunnel look better than the cover/center piece.

 

But on topic -- a lift-out targa top would be nice.

Alas, I suspect that Carrera GT is right that it will be "motors and cables, seals and flaps, springs and strings"...

I wonder if the 918's lift-out roof panels could provide a glimmer of hope?

 

Looks to me as though the hatch could lift as it does on the Cab. Then the rear glass could retract back and down into a compartment above the engine, (with less mechanical contortion than the Cab top), and then the rear hatch could cover it all up. The front roof section could lift off for storage into the front comparment, in one piece clipped in place or folded (cloth covered magnesium panels?). That would give an option to just remove one part or another for multiple configurations.

 

Carrera- Porsche buyers seeking ultimate performance have been trained to pay extra to have less -- and would have it no other way!

 

That's funny, I never considered that, but there does look like a seal below the window and a seam for the hatch to lift. A hatchback design would also be possible with the seam.

I'll bet the top will be a very light weight material. If it folds, it could easily be stowed. I wouldn't mind that; in fact I might prefer it to a complex mechanism of latches and motors.

 

still no news on when?