As informs edition Car referring to insider sources, the Porsche 960 (trademark registered in September 2015) will enter the market at the end of the decade and will cost about 200 thousand pounds (290 thousand dollars).
Supercar conceived as something completely new. Mid-engined coupe, what will be the Porsche 960 will receive a completely new platform, it is being developed in collaboration with Volkswagen. The design is not only aluminum, but also with splashes of light alloy, high-strength steels, and composites. All this will reduce vehicle weight to 1,400 kg.
Under the hood must accommodate boxer 8-cylinder engine capacity of 3.9 liters with four turbochargers. The entire installation as a whole in an amount to give about 650 hp, capable of providing a competitive advantage.
By innuendo and hints it knows that the engine is already in the prototype testing stage.
The prototype of the actuated Porsche Cayman, and on an experimental new product is tested also VarioCom — a fundamentally new system changes the compression ratio.
Porsche 960 will surely get all-wheel drive system, although in Zuffenhausen already planned and production of rear-wheel drive versions. According to forecasts, the standard 960 will overcome the first hundred in 2.5 seconds.
On stage pipeline project intended to bring in the next year, but it is obvious that the debut will take place not before the premiere of the new generation of the Porsche 911.
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