"With all due respect to the long and successful tradition of the 911, we've never been afraid of designing a successor," admits Porsche Chief Designer Harm Lagaay. "But we always had the goal of designing a car that would have the clear lines distinguishing all Porsches of the 356 and 911 ancestral line."
Lagaay's goals were nearly identical to those set out nearly four decades earlier when Butzi Porsche drafted what became the first Porsche 911: Design a more spacious four-seat sports car as timeless as the original. And sculpt a shape that was at once more advanced, more aerodynamic, and clearly an evolution of its predecessor.
The New 911's design refinements echo the engineering leaps hidden beneath its sheet metal. However, the design process began not by declaring what about the classic 911 would change, but by mandating what must remain.
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