The new Mission X all-electric hypercar is Porsche’s 75th-anniversary gift to self
The new concept car is aimed to become the fastest around Nurburgring when it hits production
It’s almost become a synchronised tradition among all automakers to celebrate special anniversaries by presenting a gift to self. 8th June marks 75 years since the first car bearing the Porsche name was launched, the 356, and the German carmaker commemorates the occasion by presenting a gift to itself – an all-electric hypercar concept car called Mission X. And it looks mega.
Porsche’s vision with Mission X is to create the fastest road-legal car on the Nürburgring Nordschleife when the brand decides to put its 75th-anniversary gift to production. While no concrete specifications were released by the brand, apart from the Mission X being 4.5 metres long and two metres wide, makes it boast a similar footprint as the Carrera GT and 918 Spyder, Porsche did claim the Mission X would possess a power-to-weight ratio of roughly one PS per kilogram. A 900-volt charging architecture in the new concept is also envisioned that will enable charging times to hike roughly twice as quickly as the Taycan Turbo S.
At first glance, enthusiasts might claim the Mission X bears no resemblance to Porsche’s signature design but the concept hypercar borrows design cues from the banner’s motorsport relics. For instance, the vertical headlight setup, which, when activated, opens like an eye blinking open, is a modernised take on the Porsche 906 and 908 racing car’s vertically stacked headlights. The doors open forwards and upwards, a style last seen on the legendary Porsche 917 LeMans racing car. A lightweight glass dome with an exoskeleton made of carbon-fibre-reinforced plastic that extends over both occupants has certainly been derived from the learnings of motorsport.
The cockpit of the Mission X further continues this love affair of motorsports with CFRP seat shells, six-point seatbelts integrated into the monocoque and an open-top steering wheel with mode switches and shift paddles. A bayonet system gets incorporated into the passenger side of the dashboard to allow a stopwatch to get attached. Porsche Design has created a special stopwatch module with an analogue and digital display with clocks to display racetrack or rally data.
The two seats get coloured differently to emphasise driver focus. The driver’s seat is Kalahari Grey syncs with the centre console and the dashboard, while the rest of the interior, including the passenger seat, gets draped in Andalusia Brown.
Porsche has honoured its glorious racetrack pedigree with these historic design elements on Mission X. However, it also adds many futuristic touches to Mission X to tease its vision for the upcoming set of performance cars. The rear wheels feature almost transparent aero blades, which are designed like turbines for better cooling of the brakes. A full-length light unit with transparent and illuminated Porsche lettering appears to be suspended in the air at the rear. The ‘E’ of the Porsche lettering is said to pulsate upon charging.
The Nürburgring Nordschleife could be regarded as a milestone marker for the German carmaker as Porsche’s 918 Spyder hybrid hypercar became the first road-legal vehicle to beat the seven-minute mark on the revered 20.6km racetrack. The 918 Spyder lapped the ‘Green Hell’ in 6 mins 57 secs with 874hp from a hybrid powertrain, so one can expect the all-electric Porsche Mission X to get equipped with almost 1000hp.
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