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Some really cool concepts shown off from Porsche's design studies. These concepts date back all the way to 2005 to 2019.

Porsche Unseen is also a book of design studies available from Porsche themselves, with numerous cars and stories.
“Porsche Unseen” provides a glimpse of unreleased concept cars

904 Living Legend

Originally Posted by Motor1

The biggest surprise is in the engine bay where there’s no four-pot or flat-six, let alone a V8. Porsche’s engineers downsized the powertrain recipe to a V2 inherited from a motorcycle. If you recall, VW developed an XL Sport concept back in the day and it too had a V2, a 1.2-liter engine from the Ducati 1199 Superleggera. It produced 200 horsepower and revved all the way up to a screaming 12,000 rpm

Porsche 904 Living Legend Was A Lightweight Coupe With V2 Engine

911 and Macan Safari

Originally Posted by Motor1

Much like its ancestor, the 911 Vision Safari was engineered with a raised suspension and chunky wheel housings able to take more abuse on a rough road. The front and rear bumpers were beefed up as well and the roof received a light bar for better illumination during a hypothetical night rally event...The Macan Safari from 2013 follows the same recipe: increased ground clearance, muscular wheel arches, and off-road tires. Notice anything different about the crossover? Yes, it’s been turned into a three-door vehicle. It’s not actually a working prototype as Porsche only built a fullsize scale model of the rugged crossover, envisioned with AWD, a dual-clutch automatic gearbox, and an off-road driving mode.

Porsche Kept The 911 Safari And Macan Safari A Secret For Many Years

Porsche 919 Street Hypercar

Originally Posted by Motor1

Created in 2017, the spectacular hypercar uses the same carbon fiber monocoque and 900-horsepower hybrid setup as the LMP1 racer from which it also inherited the proportions and wheelbase. Coincidentally, the 919 Street reveal coincides with the 20th anniversary of the Carrera GT celebrated this week by Porsche, which makes us wonder why the clay model isn’t being turned into a road-going production model.

Porsche 919 Street Revealed As 900-Horsepower Hypercar Never Built

Le Mans Living Legend

Originally Posted by Motor1

Created in 2016, the Le Mans Living Legend is actually a tribute to the lesser-known coupe model rather than the far more popular 550 Spyder. Despite its fixed roof, the low-slung sports car is based on the Boxster and has a clean look much like the recently revealed 904 Living Legend. While Porsche says the design study is a predecessor of the 718 Cayman GT4 “in the widest sense,” the two cars look significantly different. The Le Mans Living Legend has a less aggressive design, partly because the GT4’s big rear wing has been replaced by an electrically retractable spoiler. Look closer and you’ll notice it has an asymmetrical design as the side air vent louvers behind the window are only on the passenger side.

Porsche Le Mans Living Legend Was An Eight-Cylinder Nod To The Past

Vision Renndienst

Originally Posted by Motor1

The design team envisioned the minivan with an exterior inspired by a space shuttle “with exciting proportions.” They took the company’s latest design language, adapted for an MPV shape and a zero-emissions powertrain. The EV bits and pieces have all been installed in the underbody in order to maximize interior room. Sadly not shown in the images or the adjacent video, the cabin is said to be large enough to accommodate up to six people. As previously hinted in the teaser, there’s a central driver’s seat with two passengers on each side in a McLaren F1-esque layout, but with three more seats in the back.

Porsche Vision Renndienst Is Proof An Electric Van Can Be Cool

Vision Spyder

Originally Posted by Motor1

As we suspected, the Vision Spyder is a modern-day interpretation of a classic model, namely the 550-1500 RS Spyder from 1954. That “Little Rebel” license plate is a nod to James Dean’s 550 Spyder aka the “Little Bastard” to further bridge a connection with the classic sports car and its solid racing pedigree. It stays true to Porsche’s latest design language while adopting retro-inspired cues from the 550, specifically the tiny windshield and the vented engine lid in the back. The two-seater interior has been stripped down to the bare essentials and there’s an “ultra-modern roll bar” developed specifically for the Vision Spyder. Mind you, this isn’t technically a real car as we’re dealing with a 1:1 scale model as part of the company’s series of designs created between 2005 and 2019.

Porsche Vision Spyder Debuts As Retrolicious One-Off Sports Car

Macan EV?

Originally Posted by InsideEV's

Porsche definitely wanted us to see the clay model of what appears to be the Macan EV in the background of this 919 Street photo. The shot is focused on the front end of the 919, but there is also what clearly looks like a Macan towards the back of the room it was taken in. We are pretty sure that it’s the battery powered Macan because it only has a very small opening in the front fascia (EVs don’t need as much air as vehicles with an ICE). The roofline appears to be that of a coupe-like crossover and this lends more credibility to the recent batch of photos that are said to be of the Macan EV.

Did Porsche Just Show The 2022 Macan EV Clay Model?