The Chamber of Secrets

THIS IS NOT THE DONE THING. CAR companies’ design studios don’t normally show their working: the flights of fancy, the “what if?” studies, the way-out-there concept-car proposals. But Porsche have made the unusual decision to do exactly that, revealing a tantalising array of 1:1 scale models that didn’t make it to the motor show floor, but do carry elements that will live on in Porsche road cars of the future.

‘It’s not normal for a car company to show its secrets to the public like this,’ says Porsche Design Chief Michael Mauer. ‘These models were a starting point for discussion within the company, to see if it would make sense to realise them, to bring these ideas