Quite often, when you reach a milestone age, you start thinking about doing something crazy. Porsche just turned 75 this week. Its present to itself is a little something called the Mission X.
Whether you’ll ever be able to buy this crazy hypercar concept isn’t certain yet but you’re definitely going to want to. The German automaker has built it to similar dimensions to the Carrera GT and 918 Spyder but has given it EV internals capable of charging to full incredibly quickly.
It’s Porsche’s birthday
The Mission X is the successor to the Mission R, which was seen in 2021. That vehicle never went into production but this one? This one just might. Or it might not. According to the company, “The vision, should the Mission X go into series production, is for it to be the fastest road-legal vehicle on the Nürburgring Nordschleife.”
Right now, it’s mostly intended to show off what the brand can do with its vehicles, which might explain why we know so much more about the interior and exterior design than what drives it. Porsche has fitted the rear axle with aeroblades based on the design of a turbine, to better facilitate the cooling of the brakes. That suggests that, for top speed, this thing will be a monster.
Also part of the Mission X’s design is carbon-fibre-reinforced plastic around the glass dome protecting the two seats. The doors are Le Mans-style, opening in a distinctive manner, and the LED headlights apparently activate like an eye blinking open. Which isn’t creepy at all, in this new age of AI.
The interior is a combination of race day and typical Porsche luxury, though the seats and steering wheel suggest it leans more in the direction of the track than the road. The CFRP seat shells feature six-point harnesses, the steering wheel integrates mode switches and shift paddles, and there are vehicles all over the car capable of recording at the press of a button. That’s great when you have to explain to an insurance company what happened to this thing.
Finally, on the passenger side, there’s space for a special clock module to be installed. This module is set up for both track and rally tracking, showing lap times and driver data, if needed.
Almost nothing is known about the drivetrain, only that it’s rocking a 900V battery pack which is installed behind the seats. It’ll supposedly charge twice as fast as the Porsche Taycan Turbo S, which goes from 5% to 80% in just over twenty minutes. A ten-minute charge time… would be something to see, if you could find a charger in South Africa able to keep up with the car.