Porsche 960 mid-engine supercar back in the spotlight

It was in 2011 that we first heard Porsche was investigating a new mid-engine supercar to fill the gap between the top 911 variants and the 918 Spyder hypercar.

Thankfully, the rumors haven’t died down in all the years since, thanks in part to senior officials sporadically making references to the car.

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The last we heard, the car, thought to be called a 960 to signify its links to Porsche’s 959 of the 1980s, would be based on a modular sports car platform Porsche is developing for the Volkswagen Group. The new platform is to underpin all next-generation Porsche sports cars, starting with a new 911, and most likely the next-generation Audi R8 and the successors to Lamborghini’s current offerings.

Launch date pushed back to 2019