Busta Rib

If this is true, that would be very interesting and cool.

FrenchToast

You're all wrong.

The next version will be based on the new Bug. It will be front engine, and front wheel drive on all models. Tranverse mounted four-cylinder will be stock. All will have a CVT.

The sport version will be supercharged and have a regular automatic. It will also have eight dampers per corner, all linked to a central computer unit. It will have variable-strength swaybars controlled by the same computer. It will have twenty-seven servos per wheel that can change caster, camber, and toe angles +/-45 degrees at the request of the central computer. Another set of servos monitors movements of each wheel in three-axes, which will be graphed in one-second intervals in a 3D model by the central computer, uploaded via satellite to a server where a computer at the Porsche factory determines the best damper setting. This info is then relayed back to the car via satellite, at which point a prompt on the dashboard screen will show up asking if you want to implement this new data in the suspension system.

The super sport version will be the sport version with "Super" written on the back with a Porsche Design writing instrument.

Oh, and its going to look like this: (Thanks to the flickr user timthemix who snapped a photo during its debut!)

mondogarage

And it will be called the Macan't.

lopro

baaaahhhaaaaa this is full of win... no really I think someones had too much eggnog oh boy that second glass was rich

Magdaddy

so in keeping with the current trend...the back of said vehicle with say
PORSCHE 911 CARRERA SUPER

or better yet

PORSCHE 911 CARRERA SUPERCALIFRAGALISTICEXPIALODOSICIOUS

across the back deck? ... yes Virginia, in all caps

yawn

Ed Hughes

Caymans just need more leg room....

Fox 3

The 991 already is the new 928.

If I'm not mistaken, it is larger than the 928 in virtually every dimension.

There is no more 911, really. Which means they definitely could create a "new" model with roughly the same dimensions as the 993/964 and a motor behind the rear axle.

goofballdeluxe

All true. The Cayman, aside from the engine placement, basically is Porsche's answer to the old air-cooled 911s in a modern package.

The Cayman is now the sports car.

The 911 is now their GT.

Edward

Alternate point: downsize the current 911 15% and I seriously doubt it will be anywhere close to the 993's dimensions. It is that big ...and to me that's just bad.

Call me nuts, backwards, or just skeptical, but I don't think Porsche is going to go toward the 993's size; it's just now what most folks (read "money") want right now. Heck, even the Mini and Bug have grown, sheesh!

Edward

RocketJohn

The 991 has become a sales success, it runs the ring in unheralded times, it's more comfortable and weighs only marginally more than a 993. I see more evolution, but not steps to make it a new 993.

CalvinC4S

Isn't a Cayman just a boxster coupe?

Ed Burdell

You know, if they'd just restore the creases in the front hood, the whole car would seem slimmer. Yeah, the Cd would go up and top speed/gas mileage go down, but we're talking aesthetics here. I'm sure the car would still go fast.

Quadcammer

you must be joking. if you had spent maybe 15 seconds with google you would realize your statements are so blatantly wrong its laughable.

the 991 is roughly 176 inches. the 993 is roughly 168 inches. that is 8 inches, as opposed to the roughly 25 inches your 15% figure implies.

width, 991 is 71, 993 is 65. 6 inches vs your 10 inches. closer, but still way off.

finally, height, 991 is 51, 993 is 51.6...so wrong again.

care to revise your estimates?