When predictions do not come true or only much later
04/29/2019
It was in 1990, almost 30 years ago, when Auto Motor und Sport wanted to know what the future of Porsche would look like. And they predicted a four-door model and a Porsche with a V8 engine. It should be noted that at that time, the air-cooled 964 had just been launched and there was also the 944 as the S2 and Turbo, as well as the 928 with a V8 front engine. This was the entire product range. The vision of a four-door front-engined Porsche and a significantly more powerful 911 was visionary.
Well, both were available almost 20 years later from 2009, albeit somewhat differently than anticipated. Neither the 911 with V8 engine nor the four-door 989 (planned for 1995) went into series production.
However, the installation position of the engine was correct, as it was announced as a front-mounted engine in the four-door model. And so - almost 20 years later - it also powered the Panamera from 2009 onwards, while in future we will probably have to assume a four-cylinder rather than an eight-cylinder 911 ...
