Porsche, the increasingly hyperactive sports car manufacturer may be planning another model.
As well as the four-door Panamera, already confirmed, Porsche is said by an American magazine, Road & Track, to be working on a new smaller sports car. It will be in co-operation with VW - a Porsche chassis with a VW 2.0 engine of around 220 bhp. If Porsche wanted to go ahead, VW could not refuse - Porsche now owns nearly 20% of VW and has seats on the board.
It would take Porsche back to its roots - sports cars based on tuned VW engines. However, Porsche will be well aware that the last VW co-operation, the 1.7 and 2.0 Porsche 914 of the early seventies, was one of the company's few sales failures.
Source: Reuters via Road and track