Porsche has revealed its updated 911 with the release of official photographs showing the car undergoing testing.
A group of 911s can be seen negotiating roads in South Africa, wearing the model’s revised look in what Porsche calls the “991.2”.
Porsche devotees will be relieved (but not surprised) to learn that the 911 has picked up only minor changes to its iconic look, and the shape as always is unmistakeably 911.
Front styling shows revised headlights and LED daytime running lights, while the rear picks up a new bumper and perhaps some other changes. We say ‘perhaps’, because Porsches has used black tape in at least one of the pics to throw us off the scent.
All of the 911’s current body-styles are on show in the pics, including the coupe, targa and cabriolet, and Porsche is apparently quite keen to reveal a new feature for the driver.
A close-up of a switch on the restyled steering wheel reveals a four-way control showing ‘O’, ‘I’, ‘S’ and ‘S+’.
The interior also reveals Porsche’s ‘traditional’ multi-gauge setup with circular surrounds, along with a new infotainment screen and - thankfully for fans - a manual transmission.
Porsches reveals little else about the new 911, but persistent reports out of Europe suggest the 911’s engine line-up is about to become an all-turbo affair with the GT3 RS being the only exception.
The updated 911 is scheduled for an official unveiling at this year’s Frankfurt Motor Show, ahead of its arrival in local showrooms in Q1 next year.
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Lately Motor Report is quite late with automobile news compared to other sites
So you're running a stop watch on all of the Aus motoring sites? If they all published exactly the same thing at exactly the same time they would all be incredibly boring and we would only need one site. Luckily they dont. This news isn't exactly old, and Frankfurt is still a way off. The fact that it's been covered is what's important here. If you have the time to play the websites off against each other you must have a lot of time on your hands. You seem like the sort of person who would bite someone's head off behind the counter at a fast food place for taking more than 60 seconds to organise all of your food.
Take it easy bro..stop being so sensitive
Once again Porsche has taken the evolution approach to the iconic 911. I'm obviously not as big a fan of 911 as I thought I was,... as I cannot tell the difference in changes made to this soon to be released 911 to the current model 911. But you're forgiven Porsche for your lame approach to evolution styling, as you have given us the 911 GT3 RS.