The Porsche 960 Supercar Will Be Here In 2019 With A Flat-Eight Heart

According to reports, the long-awaited mid-engined Porsche 960 will arrive in three years

28 Apr 2016

The Porsche 960 Supercar Will Be Here In 2019 With A Flat-Eight Heart

Rumours of a mid-engined Porsche supercar to sit above the 911 Turbo S and below the 918 Spyder have been flying around for some time, but a new report claims to know roughly when it’ll be here. According to Car magazine, the ‘960’ - a trademark which Porsche applied for last year - will most likely be arriving in 2019 following the expected release of a new 911 in 2018, and it’ll be quite a beast.

We’re apparently looking at a £200,000 price tag - pitching it in with the likes of the Ferrari 488 and McLaren 650S - and an unusual engine layout: a flat-eight. As ever with Porsche this means a nice motorsport heritage tie-in thanks to the flat-eight 907 and 908 race cars of the 1960s and 70s, but the layout will also bring benefits such as a lower centre of gravity. It’s thought to feature clever variable compression ratio technology, giving smoother running and better efficiency. The company is allegedly already testing the engine in a heavily modified Cayman.

Car’s report suggests a four-wheel drive layout will be used, potentially with hardcore rear-wheel drive versions appearing later on, plus an all-new platform. Excited? You should be…

Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.

Comments

Dear god a flat eight must sound divine

Already looking forward to a 960 with titanium straight pipes <3

I looked up the 908, inside, the engine note really sounded like the McLaren 3.8L V8 engine but way better.

Divine is the word my friend it must have the hum of a flat six and the bass of a V8. Perfect.

I came just thinking about it

Devine yet has 666 upvotes

Flat eight? You wot m8

cant w8, should sound gr8… Any leaked videos would be appreci8ed

Wow! Can’t wait to hear that Sound

i reckon its gona soun something like a cross between barry white snoring and a husky howling. Maybe.

I hope it looks like this!

You want it to look exactly like a 570s?

I don’t!

I hope not :D There are enough cars with such a Gallardo shape, the picture of the post would be much cooler

good god NO, that is a weird hybrid of a 570s MP4-12C and the 918 and it makes me uncomfortable

What if they built a flat-10?

I think they have for an older Porsche race car. I can’t remember which exactly though

what about a flat-24!?!?!?!?!?

I was waiting for this moment…

This will probably be the next Carrera GT. Exotic engine and monster performance. Looking forward to it!

Absolutely not the successor of the - amazing - CGT. The spiritual successor of the CGT is the new 918 Spyder. The rumoured 960 is only to fill in a blank in the Porsche range where cheeky competitors have been using turbocharged technology in mid engine platforms for a while. It’s been increasingly difficult for the 911 to compete with such cars recently as the power game climbed. I think that they should build a GT2 RS instead.