NC TRACKRAT

http://autoweek.com/article/car-news...museum-exhibit
According to the article, it was targeted for release in 1995. IMHO, it looks better than the Panamera....Clean, uncluttered lines. Incidentally, there was a four-door 911 running around Texas back in the late 60's. Wonder what ever happened to it.

vincer77

Looks more like a cross between a 996 and a 993.

The 4-door 911 concept has been around for a long time

TMc993

That's just wrong....

NC TRACKRAT

That's the car, Vince! Thanks. Not that I'd want it but wonder what happened to it?

996scott

looks like the 996 4-door concept car. Soooooooo glad that didn't go through!

jstyer

The beginning of the end imo...

911F1

It did. Panamera. Completely different chassis but you get the point.

FlatSix911

The project above, for example, was meant to be a V8-engined saloon codenamed 989 that would have debuted in the early 1990s.
The global economic downturn during the early part of the decade scuttled plans to bring it to market around 1995,
and it has been stored in the company's collection ever since. - See more at: http://autoweek.com/article/car-news....fGrhVZui.dpuf

curve lover

Stan-- From the "993 Stretch Limo" thread:



^^ by MadWhips.com's oliver_sudden, who took these 2009 pics of my 993 in Monterey.

FrenchToast

That is the Troutman-Barnes conversion. Still around! I believe it started as a 911S. It is now burgundy.

It was written up in Excellence a few years ago.

Porsche did there own four-seat version of the early car, but it still has two doors. It's in the museum. Actually, they did a few studies.

The 989 is one of many concepts that were ditched from that era. I think the most prominent cause was Porsche's financial struggle in the nineties.

lopro

yack

curve lover

From the "Laugh or cry: oddities PHOTO THREAD:"

curve lover

Also in Motor Trend's 2009 "The Original Porsche Four-Door - Built in America, for an American" article.

Road & Track's 1968 feature:

Pags993

+ 1 on the yack factor, I dislike the Panamera as well. To each his own but a big thumbs down from this Porsche fan.

nr1416

kill it with fire