Porsche has come out with a new book titled “Porsche Unseen,” which provides a glimpse of some of the secret concepts and clay models developed over the past 15 years.
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.
Porsche 919 Street Version was meant to be powered by a detuned version of the hybrid turbo V4 as the race car and had much of the design sensibilities found on the highly-successful Le Mans Prototype that Porsche fielded from 2014 to 2017 — even the wheelbase and dimensions of the car — but slightly toned down for the road.
The rear end design gaining a full-width LED light strip akin to current Porsche road cars. The top-exit exhaust is reminiscent of the 918 Spyder, while rearward visibility is a bit of an issue because there’s no rear window. The doors swing upwards and the rear diffuser is one of the largest on a car intended for road use.
If you’d like to see the Porsche 919 Street in the metal (well, clay), Porsche says it will have it up on display at its Museum in the Zuffenhausen district of Stuttgart in 2021.
