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2013 Porsche 911 Turbo revealing spy shots

By Brett Davis |

Porsche has been spotted testing the next-generation 2013 Porsche 911 Turbo out on public streets once again. This is the first time we’ve been able to see most of the new Turbo’s major exterior details.

Details exposed include the front bumper layout, which looks like it will incorporate new larger front air dams in the middle and those increasingly popular side air intakes for the front brakes. The front end will also showcase new spotlights embedded into the very edges of the front bumper bar.

The rear end design will also see some pretty dramatic revisions, including a new rear bumper bar. The shape of the bumper seems more curvaceous than the existing model’s and it incorporates the exhaust outlets higher up within the bumper bar mould – unlike the existing model exhaust which exits lower down in the bumper bar.

There also appears to be a new, larger rear spoiler. The spoiler will be hydraulically operable like the current model, and help produce more downforce and airflow over the car.

Engine details for the new 911 Turbo are yet to be finalised, but it is likely to feature a turbocharged flat-six engine of some capacity. Reports suggest it will produce around 420kW, or about the same as the Ferrari 458 Italia and near the Chevrolet Corvette ZR1.

Like the new standard 991 Porsche 911, the 2013 Porsche 911 Turbo will be larger in dimensions than the existing model. It will feature a longer wheelbase and offer more interior room. Reports also say the new model will use plenty of exotic lightweight materials in its construction to keep the weight down even though the size has grown.

The 2013 Porsche 911 is expected to be unveiled sometime after the standard 2012 911 is unveiled at this year’s Frankfurt Motor Show in September.


 

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  • Mikey_94

    Wow, such dramatic changes!

    (Before you all vote me down, I know that the basic shape of the 911 is ‘iconic’ and ‘sacred’ and what not but that does not stop me from having an opinion on the only car in the world that looks the same as it did four decades ago..)

    • UMWHAT

      I think you need to get some new glasses

      go in google images and look up decade old porsches and tell me they look the same as this one?

      take a 964, a 993 and a 997 turbo, do they look exactly the same?

      obviously they don’t…unless you mean the typical, general similar porsche-y shape

      but that could be said for any super car couldn’t it? The Lamborghini has had the typical lambo shape too, evolving with each generation.

      this new 2013 turbo does look similar to the 997, without the camo it will be slightly different, same goes if you compare the 997 to the 996 etc

      but the farther back you go the more different new porches look to the old, they evolve (in a good way or bad way is up for debate) with each generation

      this 911 looks the same argument is so stupid because it can be said for basically ANY car, and deep down inside even porsche haters know this

      Like, what the hell do you want them to do? add too more doors? make it longer and lower and try to pull off a Lambo look? or maybe go crazy make it all muscle like a mustang?

      Seriously if you’re all such clever designers why don’t you tell us how they should redisgn it?

      • UMWHAT

        two more doors…

  • Jo Blow

    I am with you on this one… Porsche should try something a little left field, LED headlight design or something… Bring it up to the current times of car design and give us something we can be shocked by… Re-engineering won’t sell this car to me… $500k asking price for the current model… I really want more for that.

    • RedBack

      The minute you dramatically redesign the 911, you break the visual lineage of the car and immediately reduce the resale value of older 911s, while also devaluing the car’s iconic status.

      Porsche knows exactly what they’re doing.

      It’s their evolutionary design philosophy that preserves the unique market niche they’ve built.

  • Brayden Cresswell

    Jo Blow

    Take it for a drive then tell me its not worth the money they ask for it.

  • http://www.clockworkremovals.com.au Nick

    Porsche is known as being fast but something needs to be done to make it more appealing…u can never tell if there new or a few years old..there will be some big diffrences when its finalized tho :)

  • Vincent

    Brayden

    You are right it is worth every cent if you are paying US dollars or Uk £ or €’s but for the price that PCA will try to extort from us I think I will give it miss!