Instant Carma
November 21, 2007 by Matt Brogan
Carma is the result of four design students being let loose on a Porsche at the exclusive Institute of Superior Design in France.
The project’s aim was to produce a more slippery, aerodynamically effective Porsche by utilising existing aerodynamic fundamentals, basic physics, and some classic French verve to reduce the vehicle’s overall drag co-efficient. But how did they do it?
Housed inside the rear end is an internal spoiler which is only revealed at speed when sections of the panel work slide back and deflect air flow downward over two diffusers and out the back of the car, increasing rear end stability.
There are also a pair of venturi tunnels beneath the floor of the car which run front-to-rear increasing ground effect, thus sucking the car on to the road. An idea more commonly seen in F1 cars.
Despite being a menace to reverse park, I’m sure the sort of thinking seen in this prototype will one day make it in to production versions and presented in this stylish manner, is a credit to the four young designers who have at long last made practicality aesthetically pleasing.
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Not a fan of the styling, side vents kill it, but probably better than I can do :D
a nice effort
Geez, these students have done more to improve a Porsche aesthetically than the Porsche designers have done in the last 30 years.
Looks a bit too 928ish in the nappy bum though.
It reminds me a little of an old Matchbox toy, the Monteverdi Hai. It was a real car. Google it!
No back windscreen and it’s 928 back end. 928’s return.
Looks like a Lambo Miura. Great looking car. Hopefully Porsche make a few cars based on this design. A GT3 RS SE perhaps.
the roof needs to be all glass or black carbon fibre, like the new M3
The rear of the side window is the wrong shape for a Porsche (should match 911) but other than that, I’ll take one. And it looks better in yellow than white IMHO.
J
The ideas, though not new in themselves, are intersting in the perspective of being trialed on a road going car. Very keen to see what (if anything) becomes of this.
Car looks awesome too. Bum is a bit big, but the way the panels flow so well from one to the next is very swish. Nice effort by those four students.
its a nice design even though the rear is a bit ahem ugly: reminds me of a shelby gr1