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What Might Have Been

Car designers spend a lot of time daydreaming. Sometimes it’s merely sketching on a notepad. Others, it’s creating a full-size scale model. Occasionally, though, an idea turns into a running prototype or makes its way out of the design studio and onto the stage at a public event. These concept cars often pave the way for future products, but that’s not always the case. Sometimes these vehicles are just an exploration of an idea.

Porsche affords its design team, led by chief designer Michael Mauer, the freedom to dream. Over the past two decades, team members have penned exciting vehicles inspired by the automaker’s past, wild variants of existing production Porsches, and extreme looks at what might come from the German sports car brand in the future. Much of the team’s

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