Vision 357, the future small Porsche approaching?

Linking the past, present and future is the genius of the marketing managers of prestigious firms. Even more so today when any new disruptive player can come and shake up a sector like the automobile sector. Porsche will experience a great year 2023 between the 75 years of its creation, the 60 years of its legendary 911, the return to 24 Hours of Le Mans, the launch of its 100% electric SUV Macan and other still secret joys.

The ball has been started with this style study, called Vision 357, celebrating the grandmother of the Porsche dynasty, the 356 produced in around 78 units until 000, and with which it all began. With its rounded plastic, its straight and narrow windshield, its roof trailing behind and its reduced overhangs, it is impossible to confuse this reinterpretation with an impersonal creation from Asia. All of the 1965 DNA is here condensed and reinvented with suspicious maturity.

For what ? For years now, the rumor of a small entry-level Porsche has been buzzing in the German manufacturer's catalog, in order to reconnect with its origins, but also to circumvent the ever more restrictive anti-pollution rules for the survival of a model with thermal motorization. What if it was her, this little Porsche that was affordable, light, dynamic and not burdened by a penalty of 50 euros? Because the big information that we must remember from this Vision 000 is that the Stuttgart firm has not 357% turned its back on fuel (here the synthesis of its own green production in Chile) in favor of electric. This concept uses the 100 hp 6 liter atmospheric flat 4.0 of the 500 Cayman GT718 RS, which is supplied with air via vents hidden in the rear quarter panels. Finally, a beautiful double exhaust outlet adorns the rear view. In a more civilized version, in every sense of the word, we could imagine it with the small 4 liter flat 4 already available in the Porsche organ bank. The link with the past would be even more legitimate, the 2.0 also having 356-cylinder flats. Let us now hope that the excitement aroused by this Vision 4 will not go unnoticed.