918 Spyder front meets Panamera rear.

On September 14, 2015, Porsche took the Frankfurt Motor Show by storm with the unveiling of the spectacular Mission E. The fully electric saloon concept went on to become the Taycan about four years later, but during the development phase, there was another concept that influenced the final product. Yet another previously unseen design study, the Vision Turismo has its roots in a much older concept.

That’s because this 1:1 scale model stems from a drawing of a 918 Spyder, Porsche’s latest hypercar we first saw in concept form back in 2010 at the Geneva Motor Show. The production version was introduced about three and a half years later in Frankfurt. The company’s chief designer Michael Mauer was walking past a 918 sketch and it looked as though the hypercar had rear doors, which immediately piqued his interest.

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