A designer creates enthusiasm with the draft of a new Porsche Vision 916.
What many do not know: The design does not come from the chief designer, but from the intern.
The
car manufacturer
Porsche has published
a draft for a car
on
Instagram
.
It is a reinterpretation of the famous
Vision 916
.
The
car was designed
by an intern.
Stuttgart - As a rule, the latest designs for
cars
in the automotive industry are implemented by highly paid body designers.
At
Porsche
, however, they let the youngsters run instead.
Instead of doing boring student assistant jobs, an intern at the Stuttgart car manufacturer was given the task of designing a reinterpretation of the legendary 916 Porsche.
The
Porsche
916 was only built eleven times in 1971 and never in series, reports the auto magazine "auto-motor-und-sport.de".
The
car
was then a further development of the Porsche 914/6, but with a stronger engine and more power (190 hp).
The prototype of the Porsche 916 is one of the rarest road sports cars ever.
Porsche design: intern designs homage to a car from the 1970s
The original Porsche 916 reached a top speed of 233 kilometers per hour and accelerated from zero to 100 in about seven seconds. The few copies of the
car
are said to have
gone
to the
Porsche
and Piëch
families
.
The new design of the Porsche Vision 196 should be understood as a kind of homage to the 50-year-old sports car.
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Unfortunately, the design of the intern was not actually produced, like this Porsche.
(Symbol image)
© Boris Roessler / dpa
model |
Porsche 916 |
---|---|
Construction year |
1971 |
engine |
2.4 liter six-cylinder |
power |
190 HP (140 KW) |
Intern designs Porsche: the design of the car becomes a hit on Instagram
The
intern's
result is absolutely impressive.
Porsche has
now published
the
design of
the
Porsche
Vision 916
on
.
Porsche fans are enthusiastic about the design.
The
trainee
has developed the
design
for the Porsche Vision 196, a model which, although comes sporty and modern, but unmistakably from the original
car
was inspired from the 1970s.
The aerodynamic study shows the Porsche with a purely electric drive via four wheel hub motors *, striking wheel arches and a pointed nose.
The shape of the rear, which is also tapered, is reminiscent of the
Porsche
from the 1970s.
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Porsche Vision 196: Modern design with homage to the car of the 1970s
In addition to the surrounding ribbon of windows, it is noticeable that the
car
is missing door handles and rearview mirrors.
Cameras can
not be
seen on the
Porsche
study
either.
The original
design of
the Porsche Vision 196 dates back to 2016. However, it was recently published for the first time by Porsche.
The post on
showing
the
intern's
study
now has more than 9,000 likes.
The followers of Porsche Newsroom expressed their enthusiasm for the design, which was published as part of the “Porsche Unseen” project, in many positive comments.
It was called “bombastic” or “great vision”, among other things.
Some fans even went a step further and asked
Porsche
to
actually produce
the
car
: “Please build this car,” they say.
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A Porsche AG intern was able to plan his own vision of the rare 916 model.
© Porsche AG / press photo
Porsche does not disclose anything on Instagram about interns who designed the car
According to
Porsche
, the
car
doesn't just
exist
virtually.
Allegedly, the
design of
the
Porsche Vision 916 even made a clay model in the original scale.
Nevertheless: The designs published as part of the “Porsche Unseen” project are pure studies that did not go into series production, as a spokeswoman for
Porsche AG confirmed
at the request of bw24.de. *
However, nothing is known
about the creator of the
design
himself.
Even
Porsche
was in the post on
no information about the interns, the design of the
car
has geschafften.
One thing is certain, however: the internship in
Stuttgart
and his design for the Porsche Vision 196 should have opened one or two doors for him.
(Yannick Wenig)
* fnp.de and bw24.de are part of the nationwide Ippen editorial network.
List of rubric lists: © Boris Roessler / dpa