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When it comes to the Porsche 911, the styling somehow manages to be both insignificant and crucial at the same time - the styling hardly ever changes and yet the iconic shape of the car is a key element of its charisma. In this respect, we are now showing you the 2015 911 facelift for the first time.
Sure, we’ve all seen the 991.2 911 facelift on countless occasions, but this is the first time when that silly camo has been dropped.
We only have this set of images showing the front and side of the car - basically, the front fascia is the only different element here. The side air intakes are a bit different, but the main change comes with the central intake - overall, the 911's lower front apron gains a bit of the GT3’s “extra intakes” visual attitude, but without the latter’s characteristic horizontal element, the one that sits just below the edge of the hood.
We’ll remind you the 911 facelift has been previously spied with active shutter grilles for the side intake - a form of this may be present here, but, if this is true, the active part is hidden inside the center element and one can’t quite tell from these images. Anyway, a look at the Porsche Macan’s active grilles should give us a good idea of how the system will look on the Neunelfer.
You may have noticed that there are quite a lot tents on the topic of our discussion. In case you are curious how that front apron got damaged, you can check out this clip that shows how Porsche pushes the 2015 911 Turbo S facelift into drifting during extreme Nurburgring testing.
The interesting thing is that the spied test veicle sports a combination of elements coming from multiple 911 models. It has the centerlock wheels and the mirrors of the Turbo, Turbo S and GT3, but it's not an all-wheel drive model (the extra width at the rear isn't here). Neither does it sport the Turbo's rear wheel arch air intakes or the GT3's rear spoiler. Sure, this is a prototype, Porsche could play in whatever way, but the aforementioned mix leads us to believe this could be the Carrera GTS, a model not present in the current line-up. So you can expect your Carrera to have a different front fascia.
PS: please excuse the flowerish decor of the images.
We only have this set of images showing the front and side of the car - basically, the front fascia is the only different element here. The side air intakes are a bit different, but the main change comes with the central intake - overall, the 911's lower front apron gains a bit of the GT3’s “extra intakes” visual attitude, but without the latter’s characteristic horizontal element, the one that sits just below the edge of the hood.
We’ll remind you the 911 facelift has been previously spied with active shutter grilles for the side intake - a form of this may be present here, but, if this is true, the active part is hidden inside the center element and one can’t quite tell from these images. Anyway, a look at the Porsche Macan’s active grilles should give us a good idea of how the system will look on the Neunelfer.
You may have noticed that there are quite a lot tents on the topic of our discussion. In case you are curious how that front apron got damaged, you can check out this clip that shows how Porsche pushes the 2015 911 Turbo S facelift into drifting during extreme Nurburgring testing.
The interesting thing is that the spied test veicle sports a combination of elements coming from multiple 911 models. It has the centerlock wheels and the mirrors of the Turbo, Turbo S and GT3, but it's not an all-wheel drive model (the extra width at the rear isn't here). Neither does it sport the Turbo's rear wheel arch air intakes or the GT3's rear spoiler. Sure, this is a prototype, Porsche could play in whatever way, but the aforementioned mix leads us to believe this could be the Carrera GTS, a model not present in the current line-up. So you can expect your Carrera to have a different front fascia.
PS: please excuse the flowerish decor of the images.
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