Photo: porschevisiongt.com
Imagine waht would happen if somebody took a magic pot, threw in a Porsche 918 Spyder, a Mission E Concept, as well as Zuffenhausen's Longtail motorsport heritage. Now stop imagining and take a good look at the rendering above, because the pixel play offers us just that.
In fact, we forgot one key ingredient for the list above and that's the 1969 Porsche 908 LH Long Tail racecar - while not as laurel-savvy as the 917 that arrived later, the 908 is a key part of the automaker's motorsport pedigree.
We're used to bringing you mind-bending renderings that see digital artists performing plastic surgery in Photoshop, but the virtual contraption we have here is on a whole new level.
We're dealing with a 3D-modeled machine, one that has been created by a team of six people: Alan Derosier (Exterior Designer), Marcos Beltrao (Exterior Modeler), Martin Peng (Component Modeler), Guillermo Mignot (Interior Designer), Hasan Umutlu (Interior Modeler) and Tom Wheatley (Image Retoucher).
The result is delivered to us as an unofficial Porsche Vision Gran Turismo concept - you know, the virtual contraptions automakers created for the infamous racing sim, some of which received bewildering real life incarnations, such as the Bugatti Vision GT.
"The idea was to make a modern interpretation of the 1969 908 LH. I, as a designer, made the choice to have the longtail because Porsches with this feature have something genuinely unique. And until now nobody, as far as I know, has tried to create a modern version of it," Alan Derosier explains.
By the way, did we mention the thing comes with a stick shift?
However, it's worth mentioning the team that worked on the 908-04 Long Tail concept seen here did take into account the requirements of an actual car: "We did this car in a way it could be physically feasible, so we’ve actually worked with coherent dimensions and constraints such as seating position, visibility, headroom, door openings, ingress / egress, width, length, height,"
And this makes day dreaming (with the help of the immersive gallery below) almost inevitable.
We're used to bringing you mind-bending renderings that see digital artists performing plastic surgery in Photoshop, but the virtual contraption we have here is on a whole new level.
We're dealing with a 3D-modeled machine, one that has been created by a team of six people: Alan Derosier (Exterior Designer), Marcos Beltrao (Exterior Modeler), Martin Peng (Component Modeler), Guillermo Mignot (Interior Designer), Hasan Umutlu (Interior Modeler) and Tom Wheatley (Image Retoucher).
The result is delivered to us as an unofficial Porsche Vision Gran Turismo concept - you know, the virtual contraptions automakers created for the infamous racing sim, some of which received bewildering real life incarnations, such as the Bugatti Vision GT.
"The idea was to make a modern interpretation of the 1969 908 LH. I, as a designer, made the choice to have the longtail because Porsches with this feature have something genuinely unique. And until now nobody, as far as I know, has tried to create a modern version of it," Alan Derosier explains.
By the way, did we mention the thing comes with a stick shift?
The real life implications
Such a velocity behemoth could give us a hint on how the 918 Spyder's successor will look like. However, by the time Porsche introduces its next halo car, which should arrive at the beginning of the next decade, the Mission E will have already evolved into a production EV, so it's ridiculously early to discuss such details.However, it's worth mentioning the team that worked on the 908-04 Long Tail concept seen here did take into account the requirements of an actual car: "We did this car in a way it could be physically feasible, so we’ve actually worked with coherent dimensions and constraints such as seating position, visibility, headroom, door openings, ingress / egress, width, length, height,"
And this makes day dreaming (with the help of the immersive gallery below) almost inevitable.
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