Porsche's 'Project: Secret' Will see the Company Exhibit Secret Prototypes
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Porsche has announced plans to stage a special 'Project: Secret!' exhibit at the Porsche Museum, Stuttgart. Designed to highlight some of the company's lesser known projects, the exhibit will feature cars such as the 984 which was envisioned as a small and relatively inexpensive sports car that would appeal to younger buyers.
Development started in 1984 and the model was slated to feature a rear-mounted 2.0-litre four-cylinder boxer engine with outputs ranging from 118-148bhp. They even played around with the idea of a convertible and an all-wheel drive variant but the project was shelved in 1987 when the value of the dollar plummeted.
There will also be a 989 which was billed as a family sports car. According to the people at Porsche, work began on the model in 1988 and it was slated to be launched in 1995 with a 4.2-litre V8 engine that produced 345bhp and this meant that it could top out at 279km/h. However, the math didn't work out as internal calculations suggested the car would need to cost 150,000 deutsche marks - which was 50,000+ deutsche marks over earlier projections - and the company would only sell 15,000 units annually.
The Project: Secret! Exhibition runs from September 17th to January 11th and will feature fourteen never-built studies, unknown concept cars and camouflaged prototypes. The exhibit will also have miniatures from the Porsche archive as well as films showing early testing on the prototypes.
Last Updated on September 13, 2014
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