Front-Engine Porsche 911 Rendering Is Designed To Upset Purists - Automotive News & Information

It is time to break with tradition.

Sports car enthusiasts don’t like change and any technological advancement or modification to the formula is immediately branded heresy. Chevy changed the Corvette’s 70-year-old script last July by moving the engine to the rear of the passenger compartment. Chevy had teased this for decades and finally made it a reality. However, the Porsche 911 is the only car to have such a dramatic change. It would see the engine move from behind the passenger compartment to the rear. A new rendering by Car Lifestyle on Instagram has been released to stir up the purists with their digital pitchforks.

This rendering shows the Porsche 911 with the engine in the front. It will need a longer hood to house the engine, and not the trunk. The rendering appears to be using the Toyota Supra base. This can be seen in the windshield, A-pillar and intake on the door. However, it looks larger in the rendering. The Porsche 911 front end can be hard to miss due to its arched front fenders, round headlights and rounded headlights. It’s still visible just a little further ahead than the wheels, though, with its sloping front.

The Supra’s bits shine through the door back, with a large scoop in the front of the rear wheels. The back can’t be seen, but it appears to have a unique spoiler and wide hips. We also see arching rear fenders. The rear fascia is likely to be aggressive. Although it is possible that the 911’s dimensions will not be as good in a front-engine-layout vehicle like a sedan, this idea is intriguing.

Porsche is unlikely to make such a dramatic change to the 911 as the 911’s purists would be ready for protests, Change.org petitions and an online flood of negativity. This rendering is merely a rendering and an imaginative one at that.