Porsche 928 Successor Under Development

Back in 2003, Porsche chief Dr. Wendelin Wiedeking gave a speech where he hinted at the possibility of a new 2+2 coupe. In the years that followed, no other mention of such a vehicle was heard of until rumors of the four-door Panamera started to circulate. Soon, the four-door Porsche with coupe-like styling was confirmed, and in 2009 we’ll see the car in showrooms across the globe.

If Porsche were to build an additional model, it could spread development costs by utilizing the Panamera platform, a decision that execs considered early on during the Panamera’s development phase reports Auto Zeitung.

According to the source, the two-door Panamera is the car that Wiedeking was originally talking about when he first mentioned it in his 2003 speech, and that the coupe is currently being developed alongside the four-door.

Porsche engineers looked at the development of the Bentley Continental GT, which is based on the Phaeton sedan from Volkswagen, when designing the new coupe. However, the Porsche has to be a high-performance sports coupe rather than a comfortable GT, so engineers will employ extensive use of light weight alloys and have ruled out the option of a big V12. Unfortunately, execs within the Volkswagen umbrella are fearful that the Porsche coupe andBentley GT would be too similar in price and attract the same type of customers, but let’s hope the rumors prove true.