For a brand that is always looking to the future like Porsche, it must not have been difficult to recreate the feeling of the 80s with an iconic model inspired by the ‘Back to the Future’ saga.
In case you have never seen the three films that catapulted Michael Andrew Fox into the Hollywood Olympus we advise you to immediately remedy this. The interpretation of Marty McFly, protagonist of the Back to the Future trilogy, by Alex P. together with the Doc, is among the most beautiful things that happened in the magical American cinematography of the 80s.
The iconic DeLorean, protagonist of time travel, deserves a special space, but without delving too much into the plot of the film we want to talk to you about a Porsche 928, completely redesigned, to look like the legendary DMC-12. The body shop has been revised and is currently located in Stuttgart, just 18 km from what has always been its historic home. A group of mechanics and engineers from the German brand took a 928 GTS from the development department and made it the quietest Porsche ever, if you don’t count the plug-in variants in the current range.
Forget the Taycan and the Macan, with which Porsche also made a well-known commercial which we propose again below, and think back to the 80s. The Stuttgart-based company modernized the sinuous style of the flagship 911 in favor of a more squared and attractive design. The big sister of the 928 brought to mind some Japanese car models but with all the power of the Teutonic cars. The 928 was born at the end of the 70s, with a new V8, more powerful and performing, created to drive Americans crazy.
Porsche, landed directly from Back to the Future
The air intake became a huge cylinder with a silencer inside. In the rear area it was necessary to prevent the noise of the exhaust from interfering, so a large silencer was created on the rear window, connected to the original exhaust. The crankshaft has been completely wrapped in additional sound-absorbing elementsas well as the lower area of the gearbox.
Harald Mann, who has been involved in the creation of the works of art that come out of Weissach for more than 30 years, commented to MARCA: “It didn’t matter if the engine was front or rear, or how much interior space there was. What we needed for testing was, above all, a lot of low-end power. That’s why the 924 was excluded“. The 944 proved to be perfect for the experimentwhile the 911 would have been too powerful and noisy.
