Nicole

Can you guys spot the difference?

David Floyd

Rear engine... really cool

Nicole

... and AWD, too!

A Porsche test mule, stowed away in their museum storage.

bonus12

How's the weight distribution? Go ahead, dump the pics and info.

bonus12

Post the source of this info? wow, that is a beast.

Nicole

Here is the source: A German car magazine visited the archives and posted a series of pictures. There are quite a few interesting ones relating to the front engine Porsches; also a 965 prototype with an Audi V8 engine in the back, and in one picture, the snout of the 989 (4-seater) clay model is visible.

http://www.auto-motor-und-sport.de/b...r-7944656.html

Dougs951S

Wow, that is really cool! I've given some thought about how I would go about pulling off an AWD 951, but I never considered putting the engine in the rear. Does this car still use a variant of the Audi 016 tranny? If only there was a way to mod the transaxle to run a PTO shaft up into a center diff, and then swap in the front end/diff from a quattro and keep the engine in the front and not have to cut up the car to fit a tranny right behind it. There are easier/better ways to do it, but they involve cutting up the car a good bit.

ried

Image 16 of 31.

I'd love to know more about the maroon 944/968 hybrid in the middle. It clearly has a 944 spoiler, side mirrors, and phone dials. Yet it also has a (prototype?) 968 rear bumper and tail lights. Interesting!

Reimu

Been into 944s for several years and I've never once heard of that car

Arominus

If you look in #4 you see the front of the car is the standard S2/turbo nose. My guess? the S3 mule or design study before they went full bore on the 968 redesign.

morghen

That blue 968 cabrio prototype is the business....they should have launched and sold it.

Nicole

Sorry, I don't have any additional information about these carsl

Note the extended rockers/door sills, and that the tail lights are not transparent. This looks like a design model where they took a real car and added things with clay.

james6speed

Very nice, thanks for posting.

MAGK944

Oh the days when they actually built prototypes instead of modeling them on a computer.

Dino V

This is awesome, thanks for sharing this magnificent car ****!