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Porsche is Planning a Street-Legal Hypercar

Author: auto.pub | Published on: 28.04.2025

Somewhere deep inside Porsche’s engineering halls, someone had a brilliant — or absolutely insane — idea:
"Let’s take our endurance-racing 963 prototype and make it street-legal!"
According to the press release, there’s no official name yet. Just hints, whispers, and a very strong suggestion that something properly bonkers is on the way.

Of course, there’s a bit of history behind this madness. Fifty years ago, a very wealthy — and equally demanding — Italian count decided he simply had to have his Le Mans-winning Porsche 917 on the road.
Porsche’s engineers, never ones to back away from a challenge, duly bolted on some mirrors, fitted turn signals, added a horn, tweaked the exhaust, and — voilà — a 917 was registered for road use in the United Kingdom!
Today, the idea sounds about as ludicrous as putting a Formula 1 car on the motorway between Tartu and Tallinn and politely reminding the driver, "Don’t forget to use your turn signals — this isn't a BMW, after all."

And now, in 2025, Porsche seems determined to repeat that glorious madness.
They're not saying it outright, of course — instead, they're coyly teasing: "You can start speculating..."
Which, in plain English, means: "Yes, we're doing it, but if something explodes, you didn’t hear it from us."

Expect a limited-run exercise in automotive lunacy, because no one — not even Porsche — is mad enough to build these things by the thousands.
This will be something more along the lines of the Aston Martin Valkyrie or the Mercedes-AMG One — hypercars so extreme they should come with a warning label:
"Use at your own risk."

Will actual Porsche 963 race cars be hacked up to create these road-going monsters? No one knows yet.
But if this project really happens, it could be so gloriously unhinged that somewhere in Stuttgart, a group of engineers will have no choice but to collapse onto the floor in fits of uncontrollable laughter.

Meanwhile, traffic police everywhere are probably already warming up their radar guns.